Earlier this week, Hassan Whiteside broke down free agency like so:
“I really don’t think it’s about loyalty,” the shot-blocking center said […] “I think it’s just about [finding] the best situation for myself and that’s what I think it is.”
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It is also about money — huge, heaping, gleaming piles of cash — and early Friday morning, Whiteside found the situation and the scratch in the same place he put himself on the NBA map over the past 18 months.