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The LeBron James saga has a new wrinkle tonight. Agent Rich Paul went directly to Commissioner Adam Silver over the weekend after Silver publicly suggested James needed to hurry up and decide his future. Paul made one thing crystal clear — LeBron will not be rushed, and no team needs to do anything extra to win his favor. The clock is his.
Shifting to the diamond, Nolan Arenado reached a milestone that very few players ever touch — two thousand career hits — and he did it in style with a double in the fifth inning at Chase Field. But the Arizona Diamondbacks couldn't turn the moment into a win, dropping the game to the Athletics despite the historic night. Arizona sits at fifty-one and forty-nine, and the offense has some answering to do.
And in Chicago, Jameson Taillon finally returned to the mound after nearly seven weeks on the injured list with a hamstring strain. The Cubs needed him badly with the rotation banged up, but Taillon surrendered multiple home runs and Detroit walked away with the win in extra innings. Not the comeback story the North Side was hoping for.
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