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NBA might have a new look when dust finally settles from this

LOS ANGELES_There's a scene in almost every disaster movie where the survivors walk out of a shelter, look around and see a charred landscape. The world as they knew it is gone. The new world is here. Adapt or get left behind.

This is the NBA after free agency begins at 3 p.m. PDT Sunday.

OK, maybe that's a little dramatic, but there are plenty of people inside the NBA who know that the league is going to look very different once it's safe to come out and examine all the changes.

Kawhi Leonard, the reigning NBA Finals MVP, might be leaving his team. Kevin Durant, who won the award the two years before him, also might be leaving his team. Two of the league's best young point guards, a handful

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