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The NFL trade machine is warming up well ahead of the November tenth deadline, and the names already circulating are serious. T.J. Watt, George Pickens, and over a dozen others are drawing attention from front offices around the league. After the J.J. McCarthy deal between Minnesota and New York, general managers are clearly not waiting around this season.
Speaking of moves that raise eyebrows, the Charlotte Hornets just waived a former first-round pick carrying twenty-eight million dollars on his contract — and the wild part is they had acquired him in a trade just days earlier. That's a front office making a quick correction, and it signals the Hornets are serious about reshaping their roster before the season tips off.
And over in Philadelphia, LeBron James is opening up about why he passed on the New York Knicks despite, by his own admission, having visions of playing there. The Knicks won the championship this past summer, and LeBron acknowledged the pull was real — but in the end, he chose the Seventy-Sixers, leaving New York to celebrate without the league's most magnetic name.
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