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**DaUnbreakableKinG** · 05-04-2005, 11:19 AM

Kings/Sonics notes: Petrie: Peja has not reiterated his trade request

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SEATTLE - It was less than a year ago that Peja Stojakovic, coming off a frustrating playoff exit and stung by criticism of his play and his heart, rocked the Kings' world by suggesting they trade him.

Almost a year later, this update: Still playing in purple.

And that's unlikely to change.

"I think he's pretty happy," team executive Geoff Petrie said Tuesday evening before Stojakovic assumed his familiar starting role at small forward in the Kings' playoff game against the Seattle SuperSonics and scored 38 points in a 122-118 elimination loss.

"He hasn't said anything to indicate otherwise," Petrie said.

Despite Stojakovic's rather calm insistence that he and the Kings would be better off with a parting of ways, it was never close to happening. Petrie told his top scorer last summer he had no intention of trading him, and the executive says the two haven't had a substantive conversation about it since then, though they've talked many times.

Publicly, Stojakovic has dropped the subject.