NBA Rookies Reveal How They'll Spend Their First Paychecks

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Buy a new place or a new car; what would you do with your first paycheck from the NBA? Bleacher Report’s Team Stream Now interviewed a handful of this year’s top rookies including first overall pick Karl-Anthony Towns, Jahlil Okafor and Willie Cauley-Stein, on what they’ll be spending their new NBA paychecks on. Hopefully they’ll be a little more careful than Antoine Walker.

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