TRADE NEWS

O Globo
Sao Paulo, Brazil
28/11/03


The GBL is gripped by trading fever with the second trade of the season confirmed over the weekend.

The always slow-starting, fast-finishing No Look Confusion Makers and the perenial cellar dwellers Hollywood Wannabes have announced a four player exchange, trading small forwards Gasol and Nowitski and centres Chandler and Magloire.

GM Braun was estatic about the trade.

"I got my hands on another small forward. I can't get enough of these guys. I mean, their forwards, yet their small. I would have traded for two small forwards except Smart only had one."

Indeed, Braun has so much experience aquiring Small Forwards that if they were on the commodity exchange Braun could work at the trading desk of Solomon Smith Barney. Now that the Hollywood Wannabes have moved into last place on the ladder, Small Forward futures analysts are suggesting that Braun will draft another one with his first pick.

In an O Globo exclusive we managed to track down elusive GM Smart at the back table of a smokey strip joint in Rio surrounded by hot latino biatches in g-strings.

Smart has been on an extensive tour of Latin America in order to find new training and motivational techniques to raise the always slow starting No Look Confusion Makers from the bottom of the GBL table. In particular, he has spent time in Colombia with the guerilla group FARC and is looking for a similar level of counter-revolutionary zeal from his players, as reflected in his comments.

"I've cut Gasol in reaction to Spain's refusal to release brothers in arms Basque separatists and their close alliance with the Americans in Iraq. I'm going with Nowitski, because the Germans really stuck it up the American front office over Iraq and I think Dirk can do the same to the front court of other GBL teams."

Smart has constantly berated the performance of point guard Jamaal Crawford in the press and his comments relating to the second part of the deal, releasing centre Tyson Chandler for Jamaal Magloire, would further rub salt in the wounds.

"I'm hoping two Jamaals can make a right".


Trade VGM Currency For VGM Currency
Nowitski 20.1 25.9 Gasol 17.6 18.6
Magliore 13.3 13.9 Chandler 19 11.3

TOTALS 33.4 39.8 36.2 29.9



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