1967 LA Lakers + Baltimore Bullets TRADE Agreement, SIGNED HOFer Buddy Jeannette

Description

- 1967 NBA “Trade Agreement” for PLAYER Mel Counts -
- Traded by Baltimore BULLETS to the Los Angeles LAKERS -
- SIGNED by Baltimore Bullets GM + HOFer BUDDY Jeannette -
- SIGNED by LA Lakers FIRST General Manager Louis R. Mohs -
EARLY, partly-printed genuine
NBA ”Trade Agreement” DOCUMENT
dated
January 16th 1967
between the Baltimore BULLETS and Los Angeles LAKERS
, concerning
PLAYERS Mel Counts and Rudy La Russo
.  The “
official
” TITLE printed along the top of the form, reads as follows – “
Uniform Agreement for Assignment of a Player’s Contract to or by Club
”.
This document is
SIGNED
along the
bottom
by BOTH
”Harry E. Jeannette” (General Manager), on behalf of the “Baltimore Bullets Basketball Club, Inc.”
– AND –
by “Louis R. Mohs” (General Manager), on behalf of the “Los Angeles Lakers Basketball Team”
, agreeing to the terms of the trade listed below.
TRADE TERMS -
The party of the first part
(BULLETS)
hereby assigns to the party of the second part
(LAKERS)
the contract of PLAYER Mel Counts upon the following conditions for the contract of player Rudy La Russo
.
MEL COUNTS
was a FIRST round pick in the 1964 NBA draft, taken 7th overall by the Boston Celtics.  He played for the Boston Celtics (1964 – 66), Baltimore Bullets (1966 – 67), Los Angeles Lakers (1967 – 1970), Phoenix Suns (1970 – 72), Philadelphia 76ers (1972), Los Angeles Lakers (1972 – 74), and the New Orleans Jazz (1974 – 76).  Mel Counts was the backup center to Bill Russell on the Boston Celtics 1965 + 1966 Championship teams.  He won a gold medal with the 1964 U.S. Mens OLYMPIC basketball team.
LOUIS R. MOHS (1896 – 1967)
was the Los Angeles Lakers FIRST General Manager after the team moved from Minneapolis.   He was an excellent athlete and played football, basketball, baseball, and track in college.  The 6 foot 4, 220 pound Mohs played in the National Football League as an end, guard, and tackle for the Minneapolis Marines from 1922 – 1924.  Thereafter, he worked in the newspaper industry in both St. Paul and Minneapolis.  During that time, Mohs also served as a part time scout for the Pittsburg Steelers of the NFL and the Minneapolis Lakers of the NBA.  In 1945, he was named President of the Northern States Circulation Managers Association; and the job took him and his family to Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.   Mohs was living in Pennsylvania when Minneapolis Lakers owner Bob Short convinced him to take the GM job after the team moved to Los Angeles.   Mohs remained the Lakers general manager thru the 1966 - 67 season and ultimately passed away in August of 1967.
CONDITION:
trade document measures about 8 ½ x 9 ½ inches in size and is in EXCELLENT original condition with bold signatures.   There are two very light horizontal folds and a tiny loss of paper in the upper right corner of the document (see SCANS).
The
signature’s / autographs of HOFer Harry “Buddy” Jeannette and Louis R. Mohs are guaranteed authentic
.
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