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SALT LAKE CITY — With one week until the NBA trade deadline the rumors for the Jazz and others are flying wild and rampant. Instead of any full story, this will just gather what people are saying could happen and list them.
Since there are more than one trade rumor per player this will go by player and what trade they are associated with. Some of the rumors are a few weeks to a month old, but they are there for anyone who is curious.
Paul Millsap:
A new trade that came up on Feb. 17, ESPN has reported a deal that the Jazz and Clippers are working on that would send Millsap to the Clippers and the Jazz would get, among others, Eric Bledsoe.
The Clippers would have to include another player or players to have the salaries match for the trade to work. Bledsoe is a point guard in his second year from Kentucky that would be able to grow with the Jazz core of young players.
The big news regarding Millsap is the interest garnered from the Brooklyn Nets. According to Mitch Lawrence of the New York Daily News the Nets have moved their focus from adding help on the wing to adding help inside.
"Still, the Nets are focusing on Utah's Paul Millsap or another power forward to add by the trading deadline," Lawrence wrote. "The Nets and Jazz have been trading partners in the past, highlighted by the Nets' bold move to get Williams at the 2011 mid-season deadline. But King also insists he hasn't given up on this group."
Reports are they could be dangling former Jazz draftee Kris Humphries and MarShon Brooks. Humphries would become the fourth big and Brooks is a young player with upside, that could remind people of Alec Burks.
Chris Broussard of ESPN talked about the Jazz wanting to start Derrick Favors, and therefore would be fine letting Millsap walk. He then discussed the Trailblazers as a team that would have interest in him, as they have shown with their previous offer. He ends with this, "Portland, which could end up moving J.J. Hickson, is one team that likes Millsap."
The last is a trade that is being reported by @NBARumors with the Knicks.
According to sources, The New York Knicks and Utah Jazz are entertaining the idea of trading Iman Shumpert for Paul Millsap. — NBA Rumors (@NBARUMORS) February 12, 2013
At one point [Sam Amico of FoxsportsOhio thinks that there might be](http://www.foxsportsohio.com/01/20/13/NBA-Report-Oden-signing-draws-near/msn_landing.html?blockID=852099&feedID=8888) at least Brooklyn, Milwaukee and Denver making calls for Millsap.
The Rockets have also been rumored to have interest in Millsap. It is from Joe Kaiser of ESPN. This trade had Millsap going to Houston while the Rockets send back a package based on Patrick Patterson and Terrence Jones.
Al Jefferson:
The first rumor that had people talking was between the Spurs and Jazz reported by Chris Sheridan. This trade would be Jefferson to the Spurs for Tiago Splitter, Patty Mills, Erazem Lorbek and Stephen Jackson.
The next is from ESPN's Grantland writer Brett Koremenos. It would be a three-team deal with the Jazz, Suns and Hawks. The Jazz would send out Jefferson and get Goran Dragic and Channing Frye in return. The Suns would get Jefferson, Anthony Morrow and Johan Petro. The Hawks would get Marcin Gortat.
The next would be another trade involving the Suns ,but it would be a straight up trade. It comes from Paul Coro of AZCentral.com, while nothing is completely sewn up the basis of it would be Marcin Gortat and Jared Dudley coming to Utah with Jefferson or Gordon Hayward going to the Suns.
Another team that has been in the mix is the Celtics to get Jefferson back. It came from an ESPN "5-on-5" discussion. It would send Jefferson to the Celtics, along with a first-round pick for Paul Pierce.
An earlier trade proposal included Rajon Rondo coming to Utah, before he got hurt. It came from Bradford Doolittle on ESPN's Insider and Basketball Prospectus. It would have sent Jefferson, Mo Williams and maybe Raja Bell to the Celtics for Rondo, Brandon Bass and Courtney Lee.
