This July 1, 1961 Gary Alcorn Detroit-to-Los Angeles cash transaction is retained only as legacy provenance. The supported record shows Alcorn became a free agent from Detroit on July 1, 1960, signed with the Lakers on October 24, 1960, played 20 games for Los Angeles, and was waived on December 15 before becoming a free agent again on December 17. Basketball-Reference's 1960-61 and 1961-62 transaction ledgers do not show a July 1, 1961 Detroit-Lakers trade, and RealGM's player transaction history ends Alcorn's NBA movement with the December 1960 waiver. The Lakers' own alumni record likewise lists only his 1960-61 season. With no corroborating 1961 trade and a chronology incompatible with the legacy archive entry, the record is structurally superseded.
No separate canonical grade is recorded for Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers.
The legacy row claims Detroit sent Gary Alcorn to the Los Angeles Lakers for cash on July 1, 1961. The source-led audit found no matching trade in the Detroit, Los Angeles or league transaction ledgers. More importantly, Alcorn’s documented chronology conflicts with the claim: he had already left Detroit as a free agent in 1960, signed with the Lakers that October and was waived in December 1960.
Basketball-Reference, RealGM and the Lakers’ historical record place Alcorn with Detroit in 1959-60, then in free agency on July 1, 1960, followed by a Lakers signing on October 24, 1960. He played 20 games for Los Angeles during 1960-61, was waived on December 15 and returned to free agency two days later. No reviewed source documents Detroit reacquiring him or transferring him again in July 1961.
Because the supposed July 1961 exchange is not supported as a completed transaction, neither the listed cash nor Alcorn can be treated as realized trade return for that date. Assigning a winner or letter grades would score an event that the verified player and transaction timelines do not show. The archive should retain the row only as provenance for the legacy intake.
The canonical record is therefore structurally superseded, private, non-indexable and excluded from graded results. Its purpose is to document why the legacy transaction was rejected, not to manufacture a corrected package. The verified chronology is preserved in the source trail without creating a second Alcorn move.
Record Superseded — no winner and no team grades. The source-led chronology does not support a July 1, 1961 Detroit-to-Los Angeles cash trade involving Gary Alcorn. The legacy row remains only as private provenance and is excluded from graded and index-candidate results.