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Baron Davis Reaches Verbal Agreement with Clippers
Published 7/2/2008 at ClipperBlog.com Blog for the Los Angeles NBA Clippers Fans
  From Jonathan Abrams at the Los Angeles Times: Baron Davis' agent, Todd Ramasar, told The Times that they have a verbal agreement to sign with the Clippers. Davis is expected to sign a contract in the five-year, $50-million range. "From a basketball standpoint it's always been about winning for Baron," Ramasar said. "This presented a good opportunity to do that to pair him with Chris Kaman and Elton Brand is expected back." The ...

A Reason to Not Draft a Point Guard
Published 7/2/2008 by DSafetyGuy at Sports Frog
... You could always renounce the rights to your small forward, let him become a free agent, and sign an All-Star caliber point guard who gets to play in his hometown. Okay, it's just a verbal agreement to bring Baron Davis back to LA for five years and $55 million, but it means Corey Maggette walks away. That is fine. ...

Donald Sterling's Big Play
Published 7/2/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... and the L.A. Times' Jonathan Abrams that Baron Davis and the Clippers have verbally agreed to a five-year deal. ...

Baron Surprise
Published 7/2/2008 by Jack (noreply@blogger.com) at The Shamrock Headband
Well, this is a bit loopy. The internets are reporting that Baron Davis has "verbally agreed" to sign a five year, $65 million deal with the LA Clippers, mere hours after rather abruptly opting out of his Warriors contract. This is obviously pretty big news, and lips are aflutter that this is merely the first salvo fired in post-KG basketball, that Baron and Elton Brand (also a free agent, incidentally) recently looked at the Celtics and were like, "hey, we can do that" (they can't), and then, you know, maybe this changes the whole Corey Maggette thing and ...

A Boom Dizzle At The Clip Joint
Published 7/2/2008 by Chris at Intentional Foul
... Baron Davis is living the Oakland area, making his way to LA’s other NBA team, the Los Angeles Clippers. In a slightly surprising move — it was indicated Davis wanted to stay in Golden State — the notoriously cheap Donald Sterling actually opened his checkbook in an effort to improve the team he owns. The terms, according to numerous reports, are five years for $65 million. ...

SportsBrief - July 2
Published 7/2/2008 by Ali Jawad at SportsHubLA
Talk about starting free agency with a bang. The Clippers, yes I said the Clippers, sign Baron Davis to a 5-year, $65 million contract . More on the big news below. For the second straight game the Sparks ...