"In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened."
--Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The NBA trade deadline is all about movement. Big names, All-Stars even, are reduced to migrant workers, forced to go where the fruit is in season. The Cavs acquisition of Antawn Jamison involved six NBA players alone. The transaction saw Al Thornton, Brian Skinner, Zydrunas Ilgauskus, and a first round pick arrive in Washington, a truck full of Joad's, grown weary of the west. The Clippers welcomed Drew Gooden, and Antawn Jamison arrived in Cleveland by what appeared to be a ticker-tape parade; but that covers only five of the six vagabonds. Rarely mentioned, just a footnote in history, relegated to the role of a supporting actor's stunt double, was Sebastian Telfair, who at the ripe old age of 25 found himself headed to his fifth team in six years.