Page 2's Sport's Guy on the trade

[El Jefe]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...cowbell/050225
by Bill Simmons

When Isiah called the Spurs and said, "We'll give you Nazr Mohammed, you give us Malik Rose and a crap No. 1, and we don't care about the $20 million difference in salaries," do you think Gregg Popovich said, "Lemme call you right back," then pretended he was deliberating about it for 30 secondsw before speed-dialing Isiah back? Was there laughter in the Spurs offices? High-fiving? Was Popovich the guy who called Isiah under the "Maybe Isiah will be dumb enough to give us a center" premise? How did this go down?

brought a smile to my face on a sad day.

[maxpower]

Thomas is the laughing stock of the NBA front office suits.