[3] Thorpe was traded to the Houston Rockets for Rodney McCray and Jim Petersen in October 1988.

The team sent Thorpe to the Portland Trail Blazers in a deal for Clyde Drexler and Tracy Murray.

Thorpe would only play 34 games for the Blazers before moving on to occupy the starting front court for the Detroit Pistons (who acquired him in a package for Randolph Childress and Bill Curley) for the next two years.

[6][7] Thorpe would play 47 games with the Grizzlies before returning to the Kings in a trade that sent Bobby Hurley and Michael Smith to Vancouver.

Brown, Jamal Mashburn, and Tim James in a deal for Anthony Mason, Ricky Davis, Dale Ellis, and Eddie Jones.