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PHILADELPHIA -- For a shooting guard without a consistent jump shot, an $80 million contract sounds offensive at first blush, but Ed Stefanski was making no apologies Monday for forking over such a sum to Andre Iguodala.

The Sixers are selling their entire off-season -- the signing of Elton Brand, Monday's re-signing of Iguodala, the tinkering that Stefanski has done to the rest of the roster -- as the groundwork for a long-term championship chase. Yet the clock starts now for them because of Stefanski's and Ed Snider's largesse, because of the $160 million that the Sixers ostensibly will shell out to Brand and Iguodala over the next six ...

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