Or are you going to get all proud and boastful about Gary Payton and Karl Malone getting into a car wreck during their frantic ring chase?

It's just a foolish statement. You could make it about almost any team. I mean theoretically Elton Brand was a free agent "of note," the most coveted player on the market that summer. Unfortunately his suitors were all wrong about his condition.

Moses Malone wasn't exactly an FA signing either.