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Jalen Duren and the Detroit Pistons are staying together, but it wasn't clean getting there. Just hours before the qualifying offer deadline, the young center agreed to a five-year, two-hundred-million-dollar deal, no opt-outs on either side. After a summer of tension and back-and-forth, Detroit locked up their cornerstone — now comes the work of actually moving forward.
Meanwhile in Las Vegas, the Aces punched their ticket to the WNBA semifinals with a ninety-four to eighty-three win over the Indiana Fever in Game three, closing out that first-round series. The Big Three kept rolling, and the Fever are heading home. Las Vegas now waits on the winner of Golden State and Dallas, who settle things Friday.
And in the NBA's broadcast world, the Trail Blazers had one of the faster turnarounds in recent memory — hiring a new public address announcer, then firing him hours later after old social media posts surfaced from when he was a teenager. Portland was direct about it, saying the organization has zero tolerance for racist, sexist, or harmful comments. Short tenure, loud message.
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