Mark Heisler's NBA Coast to Coast: Melo-to-Lakers Rumors Were Good For Nothing, except a laugh - LATimes.com

Mark Heisler's NBA Coast to Coast: Melo-to-Lakers rumors were good for nothing, except a laugh - latimes.com

ESPN led the media charge in flogging the Melo-for-Andrew Bynum trade rumor to within an inch of its life. Problem was, it was a non-story from the get-go — no serious talks, or anything close. Not that that stopped anyone from speculating.

Here's what happened:Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak asked Denver GM Masai Ujiri what they wanted for Anthony.

In the NBA version of "Mission: Impossible's" self-destructing messages, each GM says the other called him, standard practice since the invention of the telephone.

Whoever made this exploratory call, that ended that . . . almost.



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