nytimes.com - 6/30/2009
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A tight economy and the prospect of a blockbuster crop of free agents next year may hurt the players available this summer.
metrowestdailynews.com - 6/30/2009
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Welcome to a Subdued Free Agency Period
SLAM Online —
The summer of 2009 doesn’t hold a lot of promise for free agents: “The summer before the Summer of LeBron will not be quite so glorious. A variety of factors — including a poor economy, weak season-ticket sales, a declining salary cap and the LeBron sweepstakes itself — could conspire to make this an unhappy off-season for most free agents. Only four teams are expected to have significant salary-cap space, and not all are expected to use it. Most teams can spend their so-called midlevel exception — about $5.6 million — but most of them probably will not.”
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The Fundamentals
BallerBlogger.com —
Howard Beck of The New York Times: “On this day next year, the N.B.A. will launch the most lavish free-agent party in modern history. Red carpets will roll. Private jets will crisscross the continent. Obscene amounts of money will be promised. Franchise fates will be altered. LeBron James will be the guest of honor, flanked, perhaps, by Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, Amare Stoudemire and Shaquille O’Neal, Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash. It should be a glorious time for teams with cap space and superstars with good realtors. The summer before the Summer of LeBron will not be quite so glorious. A variety of factors — including a poor economy, weak ...
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