If Vlade Divac had followed through on his threat to retire, the Hornets would have kept...

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Trading Vlade Divac to the Charlotte Hornets for the NBA Draft rights to Kobe Bryant will always be one of the most brilliant moves in the history of the Los Angeles Lakers. Then general manager Jerry West put on a clinic in how to get the player you want in the draft to fall you, while also somehow clearing salary cap space to sign Shaquille O’Neal. The course of Lakers franchise history would be altered had West not been able to execute that deal, but according to Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer, that’s exactly what almost happened. According to Bonnell in his obituary on then-Hornets GM Bob Bass — who passed away this weekend — Bass and West had “a tentative deal” for the Hornets to

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