Teams’ Flashy Trades Give Way to Less Brilliant Play
Published 4/28/2008 at NYT > Pro Basketball
The Mavericks’ acquisition of Jason Kidd and the Suns’ trade for Shaquille O’Neal were justifiable at the time. But the headlines of mid-February have now become the headaches of late April.
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