Narrative Lead:
"Keith Van Horn earned $4.3 million on Tuesday, for nothing more than a signature and a flight to New Jersey. Aaron McKie earned $750,000 a few weeks ago for a few pen strokes and a trip to Memphis."-(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/sports/basketball/20vanhorn.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin)
It is a funny feeling to witness these ridiculous sums of money being transfered over such unimpressive actions, this is precisely the kind of nonsense that makes one question the senseless world we are living in. That is great opening in any types of writing, for it captures the heart at first sight, as it gives life to a otherwise plain reciting of simple facts through the hidden undertone of rebellion.
Nut Graf:
"This is all made possible because of the N.B.A.’s arcane rules governing trades. Generally speaking, teams that are already over the salary cap have to balance salaries in a trade — taking back as much as they send away, give or take 25 percent."
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