Dwyane Wade, Bulls Reach Contract Buyout After 1 Season in Chicago
September 25, 2017 by admin
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Dwyane Wade‘s homecoming with the Chicago Bulls is over after only one season.
The veteran guard and the team came to terms on a buyout Sunday. The Chicago Tribune‘s K.C. Johnson first reported the news.
Wade commented on the decision, via Johnson:
“I just felt it was time for me, turning 36, that I want to be competing for a championship. I said when I got here, it was always a dream for me to play here. And getting that opportunity was special. And I can’t even say it wasn’t what everyone expected because we went to the playoffs. And trying to restore this franchise to respectability was our goal. The organization decided to go in a different direction, which I respect.
“I understand how business works in this league. They were going a direction that at this point of my career, I didn’t want to be a part of. Being unselfish, these young players they’re giving these opportunities to, they need to have that time to make mistakes and learn as they’re growing and building what they envision. They don’t need an old guy like me hanging around them.”
ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski offered insight into Wade’s possible landing spots:
Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespnSources: Cleveland, San Antonio and Miami are leaders for Dwyane Wade post-Bulls buyout. OKC could become factor too.
Wojnarowski added the Cavaliers are the “clear front-runner” because of LeBron James, but he noted it will take time for Wade to decide upon his next destination. A source close to James thinks Wade will pick the Cavaliers, per Joe Vardon of Cleveland.com.
Meanwhile, Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press reported there is “absolutely” interest between Wade and the Miami Heat.
Wade was set to earn $23.8 million for the upcoming season before he hit free agency next summer. He is giving back roughly $8 million of his $23.8 million salary in the buyout, per Wojnarowski.
The 2016-17 season ended on a higher note than many expected for the Bulls, but they were still in need of a full-scale rebuild. The front office took notice in the offseason, sending Jimmy Butler and the No. 16 pick in this year’s draft to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Kris Dunn, Zach LaVine and Lauri Markkanen.
The writing was on the wall for Wade at that point. On the Aug. 22 edition of ESPN’s The Jump, ESPN.com’s Nick Friedell revealed “the young players on the Bulls really can’t stand [Wade]” and had grown tired of playing with the 35-year-old guard, which begins at the 3:07 mark of the video below.
A buyout makes sense for Wade as well. Instead of spending the 2017-18 season on one of the NBA‘s worst teams, he can potentially contribute to a playoff contender.
Though Wade is in the twilight of his NBA career, he can remain an effective as long as his minutes and role are limited. He can’t single-handedly carry a team anymore, but he averaged 22.0 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.6 assists per 36 minutes last year, according to Basketball Reference. He also shot 31.0 percent from beyond the arc, his highest percentage since 2008-09.
The Bulls, however, were worse when Wade was on the court. Chicago had a minus-2.4 net rating with Wade and a 2.1 net rating without him, per NBA.com.
Those numbers illustrate why Wade’s next team should give him a more limited role in its rotation. If he is asked to carry too heavy a load, signing him will likely prove to be counterproductive.
As long as Wade is willing to accept coming off the bench, he could be a strong addition for any contender ahead of the regular season.
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Sen. John McCain: Doctors gave me ‘poor prognosis’ on cancer fight
September 25, 2017 by admin
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On Friday, Arizona Senator John McCain, who delivered the final blow to the previous attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare, said he will vote no against his party’s current healthcare plan.
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PHOENIX — Sen. John McCain gave new insight into his grim struggle with an aggressive form of brain cancer in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS’s 60 Minutes.
“They said that it’s very serious, that the prognosis is very, very serious,” the 81-year-old McCain, R-Ariz., said during the segment titled “The Fighter.”
“Some say 3%, some say 14%. You know, it’s a very poor prognosis,” he continued. “So I just said, ‘I understand. Now we’re gonna do what we can, get the best doctors we can find and do the best we can.’
“And, at the same time, celebrate, with gratitude, a life well-lived.”
McCain, a former naval aviator who was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and held as a prisoner of war until 1973, also revealed that he wants his memorial service held at his alma mater in Annapolis, Md.
“I want, when I leave, that the ceremony is at the Naval Academy,” he said. “And we just have a couple of people that stand up and say, ‘This guy, he served his country.’”
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McCain on July 14 underwent an emergency craniotomy to address a blood clot that was later revealed to be associated with glioblastoma, a deadly kind of brain cancer.
He returned to Capitol Hill after Labor Day and is keeping his regular Senate work schedule as he continues chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
“I am more energetic, and more engaged, as a result of this because I know that I’ve got to do everything I can to serve this country while I can,” said McCain, the chairman of the influential Senate Armed Services Committee and the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.
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Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, followed by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., center, and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., greets Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 25, 2017, as Sen. McCain returned to Capitol Hill to vote in the health bill.
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Since the diagnosis, McCain on July 28 voted to kill the GOP’s “skinny repeal” legislation, part of Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare.” On Friday, McCain announced that he also intends to vote against the latest GOP health-care bill authored by Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.
The votes have put further strain on his already notoriously bad relationship with President Trump, who has made undoing Obamacare a top priority.
In the TV interview, McCain said that Trump still has never apologized to him for ridiculing in 2015 McCain’s P.O.W. experience. But McCain said he has moved on and that none of his votes are intended to get back at Trump for the insult.
McCain added that he’d be happy to have a conversation with Trump but acknowledged that they each had a “different upbringing” and “different life experiences.”
McCain’s father and grandfather were U.S. Navy admirals.
“He is in the business of making money and he has been successful both on television as well as Miss America and others,” McCain said of Trump. “I was raised in a military family. I was raised in the concept and belief that duty, honor, country is the lodestar for the behavior that we have to exhibit every single day.”
McCain also detailed to 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl how his doctors informed him of the life-threatening health issue, which was discovered during a routine health exam.
It was a Friday, and McCain was about two-thirds of the way to his cabin near Sedona when he got a call from his doctor saying he had to turn around and come back for the surgery.
“And I said, ‘Hey, today is Friday. I’ll just come in on Monday.’ And she said, ‘No, you have to come now. It’s very serious,’” McCain recalled.
McCain also suggested that his doctors initially danced around the diagnosis.
“I kept saying to them, ‘Tell it to me straight,’” he said. ”… I said, ‘I can take it. Just tell me.’”
McCain was asked whether he has felt “panic” since the diagnosis. He said he had not.
“I have feelings, sometimes of fear, of what happens,” McCain said. “But as soon as I get that, I say, ‘Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You’ve been around a long time, old man. You’ve had a great life. You’ve had a great experience.’”
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