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The Lakers made a trade Saturday, but it wasn't for Chris Paul or Dwight Howard. Two days after getting rebuffed by the NBA in an apparent deal for Paul, the Lakers sent forward Lamar Odom to Dallas for the Mavericks' first-round pick in the 2012 amateur draft.

Magic spokesman Joel Glass says the team has granted New Jersey, Dallas and the L.A. Lakers permission to talk to Dwight Howard's agent Dan Fegan to discuss possible trades....

NBA teams went back to work Friday, which for Chris Paul meant going back to New Orleans. And there was disbelief and anger around the league - and a commitment to try again to find him a new home.

An epic trade that would have made Chris Paul and Kobe Bryant teammates in Los Angeles was vetoed Thursday night by N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern in a decision that rocked the league just as it emerged from a five-month lockout... New Orleans would have received Lamar Odom from the Lakers, and Kevin Martin, Luis Scola and Goran Dragic from the Rockets. Martin is among the league’s top scorers, Odom is a versatile big man and Scola is a skilled and rugged power forward. In addition, the Hornets would have received the Knicks’ first-round draft pick in 2012, which the Rockets acquired in a previous trade. Houston would have received Pau Gasol from the Lakers.

The NBA had 14 trades completed in 72 hours leading up to Thursday’s trade deadline. Here’s the rundown on each. Analysis by Ball Don’t Lie editor Kelly Dwyer ...

What has turned out to be a surprisingly busy trade deadline period in the NBA closed with a flurry of activity, including a stunner that has Boston sending center Kendrick Perkins and guard Nate Robinson to Oklahoma City in exchange for forward Jeff Green and center Nenad Krstic.

A person with knowledge of the trade says the New Jersey Nets agreed to acquire All-Star point guard Deron Williams from the Utah Jazz on Wednesday in a surprising deal the day before the deadline....

The blockbuster deal, which cannot become official until the teams hold a conference call with league officials Tuesday, brings one of the N.B.A.’s brightest stars to New York.

New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov has no plans to meet with Carmelo Anthony during the All Star weekend in Los Angeles.

Mitch Kupchak wanted a little advice from his predecessor as the Los Angeles Lakers general manager after his two-time NBA champions lost to the lowly Cleveland Cavaliers. That handbook you left me on how to be a great general manager doesn t include a chapter on what to do after a game like last night, Kupchak said to Jerry West.