Sixers president and GM Billy King has been very active of late, just as he is every June, but this year he has had to deal with daily rumors concerning an Allen Iverson trade.

"You just call everybody," he said. "You call people and you say, 'Let's make a deal' and just see if you can shake the bushes. But it's not initiating or getting more calls.

"When everything is written and all these rumors are out there, it makes more phone calls come in. People read the Internet and they say, 'Let me call them' because somebody wrote that we were trading with someone... . There's just so much thrown out there."

As for Iverson, King said he gets more calls about other players on his team.

"We talk to everybody," he said. "People have called us and we listen and that's our job. People call about a lot of our players. It's not just particularly Allen."

King also said that he would not be reluctant to trade within his division.

"You've got to look at each deal and evaluate them based on what's best for you," he said. "If you get what you think is going to make you better, then that's what you've got to do."