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The NBA world is still processing this one. The Boston Celtics have shipped Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers in exchange for Paul George and draft picks. Boston is reportedly pleased with the return, which is raising eyebrows given Brown's age and star power versus a thirty-six-year-old George. Philadelphia is betting this move pushes them into genuine contention, while Celtic fans are left wondering what exactly just happened to their championship core.
Speaking of veteran moves, Frederik Andersen is heading to Edmonton. The thirty-six-year-old goaltender, who helped Carolina knock out three opponents in this year's playoffs before stepping aside for Brandon Bussi in the Stanley Cup Final, has signed a one-year deal with the Oilers. Edmonton is clearly looking for experienced insurance between the pipes, and Andersen knows what playoff pressure feels like. This signing has quiet depth to it.
And in Tampa Bay, Junior Caminero is doing something nobody has done in over a century. The twenty-two-year-old Rays third baseman has homered in six consecutive games, making him the youngest player since at least nineteen hundred to pull off that feat. At twenty-two, with that kind of pop, the kid is writing his name into the record books fast.
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