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This Week's Newsmakers: Clippers Makes Waves With Additon Of Chris Paul

THE DAILY each Friday offers our take on the performances over the past week of people and entities in sports business. Here are this week's newsmakers:

WINCLIPPERS -- Yes, those Clippers. After all the brouhaha, CHRIS PAUL lands at Staples Center wearing red, white and blue when many expected purple and gold. The move has everyone talking about the Clippers now starting to pressure the Lakers for attention in L.A. for the first time since the club moved there in '85. While Paul is not guaranteed to stay with the team longer than two years, the all-in move for arguably the league's best point guard sends a message: the Clippers are ready to contend and make some noise in Hollywood.

PED allegations sullying Braun's
squeaky-clean reputation

LOSERYAN BRAUN -- Just days after MLB and its players achieve labor peace and all looks bright for the national pastime, one of the league's marquee names -- and its reigning NL MVP -- gets caught up in PED allegations. Braun has been one of the squeaky-clean pillars of the post-steroids era, and the news is nothing short of shocking. Many people really want to extend Braun the benefit of the doubt here, but it's tough to do after so many cheaters came before him.

DRAW: DAVID STERN -- The NBA got virtually no lift after announcing its formalized CBA agreement, as the Chris Paul saga unfolded and immediately overshadowed the start of free agency. Rarely has this long-time commissioner faced such criticism, and with numerous calls for his resignation, more skeptics are wondering if he’s still up to the task of leading the league. But Stern completed a deal more in-tune with the post-lockout mentality, while announcing a new sponsorship agreement with Sprint amid early signs of solid ticket sales and consumer interest. The commissioner keeps on keeping on.

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Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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