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Article: Bask: Lakers owner Buss gives blessing to O'Neal deal: report
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- AAP Sports News (Australia)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2004
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AAP Sports News (Australia)
07-14-2004
Bask: Lakers owner Buss gives blessing to O'Neal deal: report
LOS ANGELES, July 13 AFP - Lakers owner Jerry Buss said he gave his blessing to a deal
that would send Shaquille O'Neal to Miami because the star centre wasn't happy being the
highest paid player in the league, Los Angeles media said today.
"We offered to make him the highest paid player in the NBA for perhaps the rest of
his career and he turned that down," Buss told the Los Angeles Times.
"We certainly negotiated in good faith. We did not call off those negotiations.
"He's the one who called off those negotiations."
Buss all but confirmed the Lakers have worked out a deal to send ...
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