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By basketball parlance, this is impossible what was pulled off.

The unimaginable took place in the NBA Transaction Department.

Welcome in the beginning of the Ben Mallor show.

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sides of the human brain right you get the left the left brain which is the center, and then you have the right brain, which is the emotional center.

And if you looked at the body of work, the recent body of work of Carmelo Anthony, both sides of the brain would reach the conclusion that this is an impossibility that Oklahoma City would be able to trade Carmelo

Anthony.

And sure enough, that turned out to be erroneous, compliments of the boobs who run the Atlanta

Hawks, which I believe are still an NBA franchise, but barely an NBA franchise,

if you were out of the loop, if you decided, hey, it's All-Star Week in baseball,

I'm taking the week off, and you weren't paying attention.

Then you likely did not hear the news, that the big transaction,

which is not official official, it's just official.

It's got to be rubber stamp but

Oklahoma City has agreed in principle to get rid of the dead weight that is

Carmelo Anthony to the Atlanta Hawks and in return others technically three parts

to the trade but there's really only two. There's only really two.

So the way the trade works, Anthony and his contract, expiring contract, go to Atlanta.

The Thunder have to give a draft pick like three years down the line in 2022.

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