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Cade Cunningham Gains $45 Million From All-NBA Honors
The Detroit Pistons won a playoff game this season for the first time since 2008, back when Antonio McDyess led the team in scoring against Kevin Garnett’s Boston Celtics. While the Pistons posted their best attendance numbers in 16 years amid a dramatic business turnaround, the franchise isn’t the only party to benefit financially.
Point guard Cade Cunningham was rewarded with a 2025 All-NBA Third-Team honor Friday, which comes with a $45 million pay raise.
The No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft signed a rookie contract extension last summer that was due to be worth at least 25% of the salary cap (five years, $224 million), with the potential to increase to 30% of the cap (five years, $269 million) if he made an All-NBA team this year.
This type of deal structure dates to the 2011 collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and specifically the “Derrick Rose Rule” (officially named the “5th year, 30% max criteria”). The clause allows a player to re-sign with his current team to earn a salary greater than the typical maximum starting in his fifth season if at least one among a list of criteria is met. One of those criteria is being named to an All-NBA team in the most recent season.
Another way to ink that bonus is to win Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY), which was done by Cleveland Cavaliers forward Evan Mobley, who was selected two picks after Cunningham in 2021. Mobley was also named to an All-NBA team, but he had already locked up his money by winning DPOY.
Bonuses like these are always good for players, but not necessarily so for teams. Cleveland, which is already due to pay the luxury tax next season, might be forced to lose a role player such as Sam Merrill or Ty Jerome after allocating additional millions of dollars to Mobley. Detroit, on the other hand, with at least $10 million in cap space according to Spotrac, is probably happy to pay its franchise player what he’s worth.
Cunningham averaged career highs across the board, with 26.1 points per game (ninth in NBA), 9.1 assists per game (fourth in NBA) and 6.1 rebounds per game. He was also a finalist for Most Improved Player award, which does not carry any financial weight.
Perhaps more impressive than Cunningham’s individual numbers was his impact on the team. The Pistons went 44-38 in the regular season, an improvement of 29 wins over last season and the sixth-largest single-season increase ever. The five teams with bigger turnarounds did so by adding the following players by trade, free agency, or the draft: Garnett, Tim Duncan, David Robinson, Steve Nash and Larry Bird. The 2025 Pistons, on the other hand, added Tobias Harris and Malik Beasley—two well-traveled veterans who have never made an All-Star or All-NBA squad.
Cunningham earned his bag, but some players with money on the line did not. The Memphis Grizzlies’ Jaren Jackson Jr., for instance, did not make an All-NBA team this season, which would have made him eligible for a five-year “supermax” extension worth roughly $345 million. Typically, players cannot sign deals worth more than 30% of the cap until the start of their 10th season, but All-NBA status allows players to secure a salary worth 35% of the cap before their eighth or ninth season.
Jackson Jr.’s snub also puts the Grizzlies in a pickle. They can now only offer him a typical “veteran extension” instead of a max contract this summer, meaning their All-Star big man may choose to become an unrestricted free agent in 2026 and try to get a bigger paycheck at that point.
ESPN reporter Brian Windhorst, along with many other voters, has been transparent about the fact that, in the case of a tie, he’ll vote for a player who’s eligible for a raise. “Evan Mobley and Jaren Jackson are both guys who, if they make All-NBA, they get the bonus,” Windhorst said on The Bill Simmons Podcast in April. “I have a rule that if you’re close [and there’s money at stake], I put you on. I did this with Jaylen Brown two years ago.”
The initial idea behind the system in place was to reward the league’s extraordinary young players with higher wages. The problematic effect is that the votes of 100 potentially biased members of the media can cause significant salary changes for a few players every season.
Ultimately, though, the players agreed to this status quo when they signed the CBA, and a better alternative isn’t clear.
“The players don’t trust the owners. The owners don’t trust the players. The players can’t be trusted to pick the other players. The fans can’t be trusted at all,” Windhorst said. “So is the media perfect? Hell no. But we’re the best of the options.”
(This story has been updated in the sixth paragraph to correct Detroit’s available salary cap space number.)
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Body found in search for missing American Airlines flight attendant in Colombia: mayor
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A mayor in Colombia announced that a corpse had been discovered and was likely that of an American citizen who had gone missing.
Eric Fernando Gutierrez Molina, a 32-year-old American Airlines flight attendant from Texas, had gone missing while in the foreign country, according to reports.
“Since last Sunday, we have been searching for Eric Gutiérrez, a U.S. citizen who is missing,” Medellín Mayor Federico Gutiérrez noted in a Friday post on X, according to a translation from Spanish.
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Medellin Mayor Federico Gutierrez speaks during a press conference on Dec. 19, 2025. (JAIME SALDARRIAGA / AFP via Getty Images)
“Unfortunately, a lifeless body has just been found between the municipality of Jericó and Puente Iglesias,” he noted.
“There is a very high probability that it is this person,” the mayor explained.
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Eric Fernando Gutierrez Molina (CDColExt/X)
“We are heartbroken by the tragic passing of our colleague,” American Airlines noted in a statement provided to Fox News Digital on Saturday.
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“Our thoughts and support are with his family, loved ones and colleagues during this difficult time, and we are doing all we can to assist Colombian law enforcement in its investigation,” the company added.
Fox News Digital’s Alexandra Koch contributed to this report
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Hundreds of thousands march through London in stand against the far right
London, United Kingdom – Hundreds of thousands of people have marched through central London in what organisers are calling the largest ever demonstration against the far right in British history.
The Together Alliance march, backed by about 500 groups including trade unions, antiracism campaigners and Muslim representative bodies, brought together a diverse crowd of all ages from across the country on Saturday, converging on Whitehall near the Houses of Parliament.
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Organisers said that half a million people took part.
Kevin Courtney, chairman of the Together Alliance, told crowds the march “gives us all confidence to carry on.”
London’s Metropolitan Police put the figure considerably lower, at approximately 50,000, though officers acknowledged it was difficult to reach an accurate figure given how spread out the crowds were.
The protest was met with a far smaller group of counterprotesters waving Israeli flags and Iran’s pre-1979 monarchical flag.
Aadam Muuse, a trade union activist, told Al Jazeera that racism and Islamophobia had moved from the fringes into mainstream politics, and was “being pushed by parliamentarians”.
He said the march was “much needed to push back against [Reform leader Nigel] Farage and his ilk,” adding that the populist party “must be defeated at the ballot box”.
Al Jazeera’s Milena Veselinovic, reporting from the march, said demonstrators were pushing back against what they saw as “the politics of hate and division” in the United Kingdom.
One demonstrator, activist and writer Hamja Ahsan, told Al Jazeera he was motivated to attend after a rally organised by the far-right agitator-activist Tommy Robinson that drew 150,000 people and was marred by violence that injured several police officers. Robinson is reportedly planning another rally in May.
“We need to show them that we’re the majority,” Ahsan said. “At a street level, the far right won’t take over our streets.”
He said the atmosphere on Saturday was akin to the Notting Hill Carnival, as the march united people from all backgrounds, “from pensioners to children”.
Museum worker Charlotte Elliston told Al Jazeera that she also feels unsettled by the far right’s creeping rise.
“You think this would never happen here, and then all of a sudden this might happen,” she said. “You see that it is getting scary.”
Several left-wing politicians joined the demonstration.
Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn posted on X that the “problems we face are not caused by migrants or refugees”, arguing they were rooted instead in “an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires”.
MP Zarah Sultana said on X, “There’s one minority we should be angry at: the billionaires funding division while working class people can’t make ends meet.”
Green Party leader Zack Polanski, Dianne Abbott and Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham were also among the crowds.
‘Historic demonstration’
The rights group Amnesty UK hailed the “historic demonstration”, saying marchers were “calling for a different vision of society – one which places dignity, compassion and human rights at its heart”.
A separate march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which assembled at Exhibition Road near Hyde Park, converged with the main demonstration during the afternoon.
Eighteen people were arrested outside New Scotland Yard on Saturday after staging a protest in support of Palestine Action, the protest group which remains proscribed under the Terrorism Act despite a High Court ruling in February that the government’s decision to ban it was unlawful.
The march comes amid rising racism as Farage’s Reform party surges in the polls.
Hope Not Hate, an antiracism campaign group, warned earlier in March that the British far right is now “bigger, bolder and more extreme than ever before”.
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