Sentence examples for declining players from inspiring English sources

The team doubled down on expensively declining players (Steve Francis), grossly overpaid for scrubs ($30 million for Jerome James) and endured the $50 million Larry Brown saga, which I have come to think of as "John Carter" meets "Gigli" with dribbling.

If he is still the kind of thrower he was early on — a very big if, since everybody this side of Hue Jackson thinks Palmer was a declining player — then the Raiders have plenty of fast receivers for him to target.

Nokia, while it may dominate the overall market right, is a declining player in smartphones.

In reverse of a no-hitter, where success builds, each failure of a declining player seems to beget another failure.

But let's fast forward to 2014 and this likely scenario: Palmer is either a declining player with a high salary or perhaps even no longer with the team.

However, he proceeded to give a blunt 15-minute speech, claiming that he had lost the art of communicating with the players and expressing his disenchantment with some aspects of the game, a reference to the declining player conduct.

The segment has seen significant consolidation in the last 10-15 years, with the number of players declining from about 20 players to three at present.

He turns 39 this month and declared himself a free agent last month after declining a player option for 2016-17 with San Antonio. .

He had on-again, off-again continuity with James and could become a free agent this month by declining a player option for $16.7 million next season.

No available players declined participation; 27 players consented to testing.

Those big-name players declined, but solid N.B.A. players like Earl Boykins (Italy), Nenad Krstic (Russia), Juan Carlos Navarro (Spain) and Jannero Pargo (Russia) leapt overseas this off-season for more money and bigger roles.