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Why Comparing Contracts Across Sports Doesn’t Work

An NFLPA executive explains why it’s a fool’s errand to look at NBA free agency through an NFL lens. Plus readers respond to Jake Plummer’s cannabinoid advocacy and one man’s list of best Canadians to play in NFL

It’s an annual rite of the slow sports months that are June and July: Some NBA player who’s never made an all-star game signs a colossal contract and people start wondering aloud why anyone would play football.

The 2016 version: Mike Conley, the point guard who signed a five-year, $153 million contract with the Grizzlies this month after averaging 15.