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panther power
06-20-2005, 10:09 PM
ROBERT HORRY CAN ONLY LAUGH AS HE LOOKED OVER A SET OF DETROIT PISTONS GAME NOTES FROM 1994.

ON FEBRUARY FOURTH, 1994, DETROIT TRADED SEAN ELLIOTT TO THE
HOUSTON ROCKETS FOR HORRY, MATT BULLARD AND TWO SECOND-ROUND DRAFT PICKS.

HORRY MADE IT TO THE PALACE IN AUBURN HILLS FOR THAT NIGHT'S
GAME AGAINST SEATTLE, BUT NEVER GOT PAST THE LOCKER ROOM DOOR.

HE RECALLS THAT SEAN ELLIOTT HADN'T PASSED HIS PHYSICAL IN
HOUSTON, SO THAT KILLED THE DEAL.

HORRY HAS OTHER REASONS TO BE GLAD THE TRADE FELL THROUGH.

THAT SPRING, HE WON THE FIRST OF HIS FIVE CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS IN HOUSTON, WHILE THE PISTONS WERE FINISHING 20-AND-62.