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Found June 26, 2009 on SLAM Online:
Dumb Luck
TEAMS: San Antonio Spurs,  Sacramento Kings,  Chicago Bulls,  Dallas Mavericks
PLAYERS: Austin Croshere,  Calvin Booth,  Jerome James,  Isiah Thomas,  Michael Finley
by Amos Barshad The Contract-Year Signing is a well-established phenomena: a chronically underachieving player puts the pieces together in the last year of his deal and, conveniently enough, his boosted numbers are enough for a desperate team to throw way too much money at him. The player then goes right back to underachieving. But there’s another, rarer NBA phenomenon by which mediocre players sucker unsuspecting teams into albatross contracts: a previously anonymous player plays just enough...
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