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July 15, 1989 – Not a Bad Boy but a Rich Boy
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While hardly fitting the image of a Bad Boy, former NBA center Jon Koncak was certainly a happy boy when the Atlanta Hawks matched a 6-year, $13-million offer sheet from the defending NBA champion Detroit Pistons on this day 19 years ago. Coming off a 1988-89 campaign in which he only averaged 4.7 points per game, Koncak would amazingly earn more than Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird during the first season of an economically stimulating New Deal that even FDR wouldn’t have envisioned.