Finally, we can bring close the lengthy legend of the much traveled Lakers/Cavs picks. The Marion deal shall include the #24 pick and Marcus Banks which will bring the saga full circle.
Partly because they overpaid Marcus Banks, the Phoenix Suns need to dump salary, so they send us (amongst others) Banks and the 24th pick, a pick the Suns received from us for last year's 21st pick, a pick that the Suns had acquired from Atlanta (for ex-Celtics Joe Johnson) who had gotten it from us (when we re-acquired Antoine Walker, whom we earlier had traded for, amongst others, Jiri Welsch, whom we traded for the 24th pick that we are now re-acquiring). And the only reason we got the pick in the first place was because Gary Payton refused to show up, a move that also let us retain Marcus Banks, whose option we didn't pick up which led him to be overpaid by the Phoenix Suns.
