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Philadelphia re-signs Joel Embiid to a three-year, $257 million extension

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The Philadelphia 76ers have signed star forward Joel Embiid to a contract extension.

The team announced on Jan. 21 (KST) that it had “signed Embiid to a multi-year extension.” The team did not announce the length or amount of the contract. The team did not announce the length or amount of the contract, but ESPN estimated it to be “worth $192.9 million over 파워볼게임 three years.”

The deal will keep him in Philadelphia through the 2028-2029 season, the final season of his contract, and will pay him a salary of $69 million, or more than 92.1 billion won in Korean won.

Embiid is a center who was drafted by Philadelphia with the third overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft. He was named the league’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the 2022-2023 season, was the league’s scoring leader in 2022 and 2023, and is a seven-time All-Star.

Born in Cameroon, he also earned French citizenship in 2022, but ultimately competed for Team USA at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris, where he won a gold medal.

“Philadelphia is my hometown,” said Embiid, ”and I want to play here until the end of my career.”

Philadelphia’s best finish since Embiid’s arrival is the second round of the playoffs. Their last championship was in 1983.

Griffin, ‘a disastrous ending for a national ball prospect,’ is finally released by team

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Griffin has been released by Houston.

The Houston Rockets and AJ Griffin have agreed to a buyout, according to local media outlet The Athletic. A buyout means that the team and player agree on a deal and the player is released as a free agent. It’s effectively a release.

Griffin will be selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the 16th overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. At the time, Griffin’s selection was controversial because he was a highly touted prospect in high school, but also because he didn’t do much on the collegiate level.Griffin was a highly touted prospect in high school, and virtually every top program in the country wanted him, including basketball powerhouses Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, UCLA, UConn, 파워볼사이트 추천 and Villanova. Griffin chose Duke.

At Duke, Griffin averaged 10.4 points and 3.9 rebounds per game over the course of a year and entered the NBA Draft, where he was selected by Atlanta.

Griffin was expected to be a scoring forward, not a 3-and-D type. He had the dribbling skills and shooting accuracy to be a high-potential player.

He didn’t disappoint, averaging 8.9 points and 2.1 rebounds in his rookie season in Atlanta. However, in his sophomore season, 2023-2024, he averaged just 2.4 points and 0.9 rebounds and was essentially a non-factor.

There were no reports of any specific injuries, so there was a lot of doubt about Griffin’s sudden disappearance. Atlanta traded Griffin to Houston at the end of the 2023-2024 season. Griffin was the 16th overall pick and had been a decent player in the NBA just one year earlier. It was a bargain, considering.

However, Houston and Griffin parted ways before playing a single game. Griffin”s situation was revealed. According to rumors, Griffin was experiencing psychological problems due to a family crisis. In other words, he wasn”t in a position to focus on basketball.

In the end, the Houston organization understood his situation and mutually agreed to release him. Griffin said that he wanted to take some time to collect himself and decide whether to retire or return to the game.

Will Griffin ever return to the NBA?

Brown saved it, Tatum finished it—Boston tops Indiana in overtime thriller

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They were on the brink of defeat and then came back with a dramatic three-pointer. The Boston Celtics, the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) top-seeded team in the regular season, took the first step toward the championship game with a hard-fought Game 1 victory.

The Celtics defeated the Indiana Pacers 133-128 in overtime in Game 1 of the best-of-seven 2023-2024 NBA Eastern Conference Finals at TD Garden in Boston on Wednesday. 스포츠토토존 The two teams will meet in Game 2 on Nov. 24 at the same location.

Boston, which finished the regular season with a 64-18 record and a .780 winning percentage to lead the NBA, came back from the brink of defeat in dramatic fashion. Trailing 114-117 with six seconds left in the fourth quarter, Jaylen Brown’s three-pointer off a pass from Jrue Halladay hit the rim to dramatically tie the game at 117-117 and send the game into overtime.

The balance of the game continued to tip in Boston’s favor in overtime, with Jayson Tatum hitting a three-pointer off a pass from Derrick White with 42.2 seconds left in regulation to give Boston a 124-123 lead. White followed with a layup to make it 129-123 with 25 seconds left in regulation. With 12.2 seconds left, Indiana’s Obi Toffin hit two free throws to pull within 131-128, but Tatum hit two free throws with 8.2 seconds left to seal the deal.

Tatum led the way with a 36-point, 12-rebound performance, including 10 points in overtime alone. Halladay and Brown chipped in with 28 and 26 points, respectively. Indiana was led by Tyreese Halliburton’s 25 points and 10 assists and Myles Turner’s 23 points and 10 rebounds.