1.   Bill Torrey engineered that trade.

2.   Fitzsimmons engineered a trade that would bring point guard Kevin Johnson from the Cleveland Cavaliers and a draft pick the Suns would use to take Dan Majerle.

3.   He engineered trades for stars like Y.A. Tittle, Andy Robustelli, Del Shofner, Dick Modzelewski, Pat Summerall and Dick Lynch.

4.   He held a team meeting to let the players air their feelings about Lacroix, and then engineered a trade.

5.   His tenure was widely ridiculed, however, and the media blasted him for engineering the trade of star guard Jason Kidd.

6.   Later, Holzman helped to engineer a trade that brought Monroe to the Knicks.

7.   One surprise attendee Sunday was the former Broncos owner Edgar Kaiser, who clandestinely engineered a trade for Elway with the Baltimore Colts.

8.   Stevens engineered the trade to the Bruins because he and his wife are from there and he dreamed of playing for them since he was a little boy.

9.   The flexibility allowed Jones to engineer three trades that improved their draft value and allowed them to get players they preferred.

10.   They tried to engineer a trade for him, and had even worked out a contract agreement with his agent, Ralph Cindrich of Pittsburgh.