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J.R. Smith is not a market maker for Ben Gordon. He is taller, though.
J.R. Smith is not a market maker for Ben Gordon. He is taller, though.
  As far as I can tell, nobody quite knows what J.R. Smith signed for, but the general guess is in the $5-7m range for 3 years. And as it further dwindles the list of significant unsigned 2004 draftees to pretty much Ben Gordon (with apologies to Delonte West)...the comparisons have come out. Matt Watson at Fanhouse : He's only 22 years old, but I doubt he'd want to agree to a ...
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