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Article: NBA draft: The long, short
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 26, 1988
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RICHEST SMORGASBORD
Add to Tuesday's NBA college draft of 75 players the
unprecedented pool of 30 unrestricted free agents and what do you
have? A summer smorgasbord of new and used talent perhaps second to
none. And teams need not worry about stuffing themselves because
they're all on a strict diet called the salary cap.
FEEL THE HEAT
Players aren't the only ones in transition. The Detroit Pistons
are feeling the Miami Heat on their backs for their coaches.
The Pistons dared to play hard ball in contract negotiations
with coach Chuck Daly, the league's oldest coach at 57 but the team's
winningest ever with an all-time regular-season record of 247-163.
They passed up a chance to ...