Handle With Care: Here's Your 'High-Maintenance' Starting Five

by Matt Steinmetz

Filed under: Cavaliers, Clippers, Lakers, Rockets, Warriors

Who doesn't like a list, especially on a Monday morning when that's about all you can handle?

Less than 10 months after receiving a three-year contract extension worth approximately $27 million, Stephen Jackson now says he doesn't want to play for the Warriors anymore.

It's a pretty sudden turn for Jackson, who said at the time of the re-signing that he wanted to play the remainder of his career in Oakland. That kind of fickleness, when it comes from your captain and best player, can be a real headache for a team.

It got us to thinking about some of the NBA's high-maintenance players, the needy and delicate ones you must handle with extreme care. Whether it's their personality or game, here are five players who can make it very difficult for any franchise.

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