·Pistons coach George Irvine on trade deadline rumors: "They were all over the place all of the time. And now it is much worse. Now it's on every chat room and on all of the talk-radio shows. You have these rumors being generated in a chat room by some fan who is so knowledgeable that he voted for Alonzo Mourning and Grant Hill (both injured) to start for the Eastern Conference All-Star team, and then these rumors take on a life of their own." Get ready for the summer. ------------------ "Chucky who? I thought we were talking about basketball?" Charles Barkley
