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Trade winds are beginning to blow. (NBA Insider).(basketball)

The Sporting News

| January 07, 2002 | Deveney, Sean | COPYRIGHT 2002 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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