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NBA Trade Rumors: Is the proposed Reggie Jackson, Elfrid Payton, Lou Williams deal actually real?

What does a Franklin, Michigan-based stock trader know that the rest of the NBA world doesn’t? Perhaps quite a bit.

Bruce Tennen, the stock trader in question, tweeted out to his 7,616 followers on Feb. 16 a pretty straightforward rumor:

Anybody can throw out trade rumors, and in the era of fake trade proposals getting cycled and recycled you have to be careful. As a writer, you have to separate the wheat from the chaff, and a good early indication of junk is if it winds up in the International Business Times.

The exact trade was also floated by Bleacher Report not as a rumor but as a suggestion.