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Robert "Tractor" Traylor (official thread)

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DaytonBuck

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Former Michigan and NBA player Robert "Tractor" Traylor faces up to 14 months in prison after he pleaded guilty Thursday to a criminal tax charge.


Traylor, 29, got in trouble by claiming ownership of two Detroit rental properties that were owned by his cousin, convicted drug kingpin Quasand Lewis, according to court testimony.


Lewis, 36, the head of a drug trafficking conspiracy that authorities said netted more than $178 million in marijuana and cocaine profits, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison in December. The court was told that Lewis found various ways to hide his drug profits, including putting real estate in others' names.
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another fine representative of 90's scUM hoops
 
CPD

'Tractor' Traylor rejoins Cavs for summer league

7/8/2008, 6:25 p.m. EDT
The Associated Press
CLEVELAND (AP) ? Robert "Tractor" Traylor will rejoin the Cavaliers ? for the summer at least.
Traylor was named Tuesday to Cleveland's 13-member summer league roster. The team is made up of young players like Cavaliers rookies J.J. Hickson and Darnell Jackson.
Traylor last played for the Cavaliers in 2005 and is one of the few veterans on the roster.
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Cavs looking at Traylor again

Posted by [URL="http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/about.html"]Mary Schmitt Boyer[/URL] July 13, 2008 20:29PM

Categories: Cavaliers

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Robert 'Tractor' Traylor had two previous stints with the Cavs.

There have been times, Robert "Tractor" Traylor admitted, when he thought his NBA career was finished. Now he's not so sure.
The popular former Cavalier, who most recently played in the league in 2005, will play with the Cavs' summer league team in Las Vegas next week. It is the second time in the past eight months the Cavs have taken a look at Traylor. Last December, he worked out for the Cavs before Anderson Varejao settled his contract dispute and joined the team. Traylor wound up returning to Puerto Rico, where he has played the past two seasons.
Cavs General Manager Danny Ferry was complimentary, if noncommittal, when asked about the future of the 6-9, 289-pound, 31-year-old Traylor.
"Robert has continued to play professionally the past two years," Ferry said. "He is talented and still loves to play the game. I think he will do a good job for us in Vegas."
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"I'm a totally different person," said Traylor, now married with a 6-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son. "I've grown up a lot. When you've been playing basketball since you were 9 years old . . . . I don't want to say that basketball's not important to me. I couldn't say that. I've been playing since I was 9 years old.
"But now my family is 1A, and basketball is 1B."
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Robert ?Tractor? Traylor dead at 34

The Sports Xchange 7 minutes ago

Former Michigan Wolverines basketball star Robert "Tractor" Traylor was found dead in his apartment in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. He was 34 years old.
Traylor entered the NBA draft after his junior year at Michigan, where he averaged 16 points and 10 rebounds in his third season. He was taken with the sixth pick by the Dallas Mavericks in the 1998 NBA draft and then traded to the Milwaukee Bucks for Pat Garrity and Dirk Nowitzki.
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Also crazy to think that this dude was traded not even straight up for Dirk- the Bucks gave up another player as well, Pat Garrity, who ended up getting traded for Steve Nash.

So the Mavs traded Tractor Traylor and Pat Garrity for Nowitzki and Nash.

Wow.
 
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