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Shakespeare once wrote, "Rumor is a pipe, blown by surmises, jealousies and conjectures." The Roman poet Ovid wrote, "The mind that is conscious of its rectitude laughs at the lies of rumor." Personally, I prefer what Will Rogers had to say in The Illiterate Digest: "Rumor travels faster but don't stay put as long as truth."
Followers of the NBA surely have had brushes with one of the league's great treasures: the inexorable trade rumor. Perhaps more than any other major American sports association, the NBA is home to the widest range of breathless scuttlebutt--sometimes sublime, sometimes ridiculous and sometimes even embedded with grains of truth. Small ...