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SACRAMENTO, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Sacramento and Chicago swapped six players Wednesday in the first of an expected flurry of deals prior to the NBA trade deadline.
The Bulls got center Brad Miller and swingman John Salmons for forwards Andres Nocioni, Cedric Simmons and Michael Ruffin, and center Drew Gooden.
The Sacramento Bee reported late Wednesday the Kings also will deal Ruffin to Portland for forward Ike Diogu and will receive about $1 million from the Trailblazers.
Multiple league sources told the Bee the deal, one day ahead of the trade deadline, is pending league approval.
"I've been traded before and the way I look at it is it means somebody wants you," Gooden told the Chicago Tribune when he was pulled off the team bus Wednesday afternoon and told of the deal.
The 6-foot-6 Salmons, in his seventh season out of Miami, is averaging a career-high 18.3 points per game, and the 7-foot Miller, in his 11th season out of Purdue, is averaging 11.9 points and eight rebounds per game.
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DALLAS, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Remaining members of the Mountain West Conference and Conference USA will merge to form a new superconference, college sports officials said Monday.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Actor Matt Bomer, star of the U.S. television series "White Collar," confirmed during the weekend he is gay and has a longtime partner.
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PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 13 (UPI) --
A European space mission has seen previously undiscovered islands of star formation and mysterious microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers say.
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VESPER, Wis., Feb. 13 (UPI) --
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said it will not disturb a black bear that picked a drain tunnel to hibernate.
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