News from August 10. TRADE: In a 4 team trade, Orlando traded away Dwight Howard, Jason Richardson, Chris Duhon, and Earl Clark and received Arron Afflalo, Al Harrington, Maurice Harkless, Nikola Vucevic, Josh McRoberts, Christian Eyenga, 3 1st round draft picks, and 2 2nd round draft picks; the LA Lakers traded away Andrew Bynum, Christian Eyenga, Josh McRoberts, a future protected 1st round draft pick (earliest it could go to Orlando is 2017), and a conditional 2015 2nd round draft pick (only goes to Orlando if it is #31 through #40) and received Dwight Howard, Chris Duhon, and Earl Clark; Denver traded away Arron Afflalo, Al Harrington, a 2014 1st round draft pick (the lower of Denver's and New York's pick (which Denver owned)), and a 2013 2nd round draft pick that originally belonged to Golden State and received Andre Iguodala; and Philadelphia traded away Andre Iguodala, Nikola Vucevic, Maurice Harkless, and a future protected 1st round draft pick (earliest it could go to Orlando is 2015) and received Andrew Bynum, and Jason Richardson. Cleveland signed Micheal Eric. Orlando signed 2nd round draft pick (#49) Kyle O'Quinn. Washington named Jerry Sichting as an assistant coach. ---- Patricia Bender pbender@eskimo.com For Trianglons puzzles: http://www.trianglons.com For NBA stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/index.html For Mavs stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/mavs.html