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NBA free agency 2022: Day 1 winners and losers, starring Rudy Gobert and Kyrie Irving

Ladies and gentlemen, your winners and losers from the first 24 hours of 2022 NBA free agency ...

WINNERS

The Jokic brothers

Two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic once described his brothers, Strahinja and Nemanja, thusly: "They look like serial killers, but they are actually really nice people when you meet them." I do not know them. What little I do know sure suggests they are now the de facto security team for the NBA's Biggest Contract Ever. Charlatans will swirl a $264 million contract, but not when the Jokic brothers are staring back at them.