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Detroit is making history and spending big to keep it. Jahmyr Gibbs just became the highest-paid running back in NFL history, inking a three-year extension with the Lions worth sixty-seven point five million dollars, with fifty-one point five million fully guaranteed. At twenty-two and a half million per year, Gibbs sits atop the running back market, ahead of Bijan Robinson and Jonathan Taylor. Detroit is not playing around.
Shifting to the hardwood, Jaylen Brown is speaking out about his blockbuster trade from Boston to Philadelphia, and he's not hiding his frustration. Brown said the Celtics' communication with him before the deal went down left a lot to be desired. But he's moving forward, locking in with the Sixers and keeping his eyes on winning basketball. That Boston chapter is closed.
And in Dallas, the Mavericks are turning a trading card into must-watch theater. Cooper Flagg's one-of-a-kind autographed NBA Debut Patch card — containing the actual patch from his very first game on October twenty-second, two thousand twenty-five — is somewhere out in the world, and the franchise is offering a serious bounty to whoever finds it. Flagg won Rookie of the Year, and now his debut is a treasure hunt.
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