
12-23-2006, 07:28 PM
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| Re: December 2006 Pistons Articles Draft-day dealings looking like a steal Quote: Draft-day dealings looking like a steal
By Mike Bresnahan, Times Staff Writer
December 23, 2006
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — June 28 was big for the Lakers, the date of the 2006 draft and the official union of Jordan Farmar with a franchise in need of a point guard for the future.
Later that night, long after a city had realized it would spend even more time watching the former UCLA guard, a Lakers spokesman announced a footnote to the event: They had acquired forward-guard Maurice Evans from the Detroit Pistons for the rights to second-round pick Cheick Samb, a 7-foot, 195-pound center from Senegal.
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