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  "textContent": "Players Era’s rapid expansion plans could be tapering off. The Las Vegas-based men’s basketball multi-team event (MTE), co-produced by RedBird IMI’s EverWonder Studio, is now considering scaling back what had been planned as a 32-team field next season to 24 participants, according to multiple people familiar with the situation. As part of that retrenchment, several […]",
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