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Nice jersey! Whats the retail on this and do they have Bynum?
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Any team that wants to pry Ron Artest from the Kings at the trade deadline will have to take on Kenny Thomas' long-term obligations. At $8.6 million in 2009-10, Thomas would be no better than the fifth-highest-paid Knick that season. Welcome aboard, Kenny! NY Newsday
We don't need that contract...
"Garnett is very good, but if he had the pressure on him to score like Kobe does every night, there's a difference," said Jerry West. "Kevin is going to be a great, great player every night in all facets of the game. "But the other one has a little bit different kind of cachet to him. You're going to pay to see Kevin Garnett play, but you're just going to see a tremendously good basketball player." Boston Globe
Jerry West: "The degree of excitement with Kobe Bryant is like going to an action movie instead of seeing a great film. Kevin Garnett would be in a great film and Kobe Bryant would be the action-hero figure. He's going to supply the jumps off the tops of bridges, dunks, going through 10 people, driving to make a layup. "Kevin Garnett is just going to be the steady, steady, steady guy there every night. But I think from an all-around standpoint, Kobe is the best." Boston Globe
Asked if he would choose an action hero like Bryant over a steady player like Garnett all the time, West said, "That is if you have good players with him. And [the Lakers] have some pretty darn good players. They have a good young team, and they're going to get better. With me, it all depends on what market you're in. Kobe Bryant would be hard not to want to have on your team." Boston Globe
Prior to the arrival of Garnett, the prospect of Bryant leaving LA for less glitzy Boston presented an intriguing possibility. Whenever reports of irreconcilable differences between Bryant and the Lakers surfaced, Celtics supporters wondered "what if?" What if one of the NBA's most exciting players switched sides in one of the NBA's most storied rivalries? Boston Globe
For financial reasons above all else, West believes Bryant will remain with the Lakers, though the season started with the guard seemingly headed elsewhere. During last season's playoffs, Bryant told reporters he wanted West back in the Lakers' front office or he would request a trade. With Bryant still dissatisfied about the direction of the Lakers, a deal appeared likely. The Chicago Bulls surfaced as the most serious candidate. But Bryant has a no-trade clause and almost $90 million remaining on his contract. Boston Globe
On Kobe: "He's not going to be traded, period," said West. "Somebody's made a bigger story out of it than it is. Whoever would want him, they would have to decimate a franchise to get him." Boston Globe
This is old news to Lakers fans, but sometime in May, Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant was videotaped at a shopping center expressing his disgust over the Lakers decision to not trade third-year center Andrew Bynum for New Jersey Nets point guard Jason Kidd. "Andrew Bynum? What the (expletive)?" Bryant said in the clip. "Are you kidding me? Andrew Bynum? (Expletive) ship his (butt) out. Are you kidding me? We're talking about Jason Kidd. But they didn't even want to do that. Now we're here in this (expletive)-up position." Contra Costa Times
Kobe on Andrew Bynum: "The best thing about it is he's put in so much work over the summer and now," Bryant told reporters after the Lakers' Christmas Day victory over Phoenix. "The biggest thing for him is he's seeing results. The sky's the limit for him." Wow, how do you think Bryant feels now? He demanded to be traded because his Lakers wouldn't trade Bynum. Now, Bynum has become the help Bryant craved. Contra Costa Times
On Bynum: "He's going to be a dominant big man in the NBA, and there are very few of those," Indiana Pacers president Donnie Walsh -- who reportedly tried to acquire Bynum in a trade involving Jermaine O'Neal -- told the Los Angeles Times. "He's getting better every day, and he has since he got in the league. I wouldn't limit him in any way. He's like a big baby. You can just see him grow. The great wars are going to be between Greg Oden and Bynum, between Yao Ming and Oden, between Yao and Bynum." Contra Costa Times
That being said, I expect to be play about .700 ball while he's out, and still be fine for at LEAST a second round meeting with someone.
Iiiiiiiiii dunno about the 700 part. This is our worst part of the schedule that he's missing. Even with Bynum the next 4 would be realtough, without him we're really gonna be scrambling. I guess we just hope for the best and hope it's 4 - 5 and not 8 weeks. He needs those Kobe genesto heal himself.
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Game over.
Kidd to Lakers for Brown, Farmar, Radmanovic?
Sunday, Dec 23, 2007 2:00 pm EST
Quoting an NBA source, Peter Vecsey of the New York Post reports the Los Angeles Lakers are looking to acquire Jason Kidd from the New Jersey Nets.
According to the report, the Lakers will send a couple draft picks, Kwame Brown's expiring contract ($9M), Jordan Farmar ($1M) and Vladimir Radmanovic ($5.6M with an additional $19.2M over the next three seasons) to New Jersey.
Not unexpectedly, the Nets aren't interested in assuming Radmanovic's long-term guarantee. There's nothing not to love about Farmar, yet New Jersey already has a promising, young guard in Marcus Williams.
Source: New York Post
im not gettin my hopes up but man if that deal goes through
Originally Posted by tupac003
I like lamar. I am just sick and tired of him being in and out of games. He wow's us one game and then the next 3 games he scores 8 and gets 4 rebounds. It has to stop. He is talking all of this all star mess and he isn't going to come close with games like that.Originally Posted by LamarOwnsem
Damn, the hate for Odom came out of nowhere. All this "Odumb" nonsense is really unnecessary.
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Oh, I definitely wouldn't move Bynum for Jermaine. No way. I wasn't saying before that Bynum is terrible; I was just saying that the statement that he's better than Shaq was at his age is ridiculous. I like Bynum. I think the Lakers front office is hyping him too much (no Kidd deal last year because the Nets wanted Bynum?!), but I do like the kid.
I think he could be a solid contributor, but I think the Lakers FO thinks he could be a perennial All Star, and I just don't see it.TEAM LAKERSTEAM DODGERSTEAM L.A. KINGS
We have 14 on the roster and we can always drop coby carl down to the d leauge. I really believe we should sign both because that just makes us an evendeeper team.Originally Posted by I NaSmatic I
Originally Posted by tupac003
Did anybody see what he just said?
WE NEED PJ AND C WEBB NOW!
How many player can you have on a roster during the regular season?
i'm all for pj...he fit in well with the triangle with time and is a veteran the lakers can depend on.
and the max you can have is 15 i believe (12 active during games).
[h1]Kobe glad he wasn't traded, is 'happy' with Lakers[/h1]
By Chris Broussard
ESPN.com
(Archive)
Updated: December 13, 2007, 7:29 PM ET
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- It's time to do away with the image of Kobe Bryant playing under protest. After completing a Lakers practice Wednesday afternoon, Bryant said he's glad he hasn't been traded.
"I'm happy to be here," Bryant said. "My guys and I -- we have such a tight bond. Business and basketball sometimes can cloud things, but when you get here in your element and you're around your teammates and just having a good time with them and thinking about them and not about the business of the game, that's when it becomes fun."
Bryant wouldn't go as far as to rescind the well-publicized trade demand he made in May. When asked if he no longer wanted the Lakers to trade him, he essentially gave a no comment, saying, "I don't get into that stuff."
Nonetheless, the admission that he is happy to still be a member of the Los Angeles Lakers signifies a massive change in Bryant's thinking and may indeed be analogous to a repeal.
Business and basketball sometimes can cloud things, but when you get here in your element and you're around your teammates and just having a good time with them and thinking about them and not about the business of the game, that's when it becomes fun.
-- Lakers guard Kobe Bryant
The Lakers' success certainly has something to do with Bryant's change of heart. Despite the absence of several key players due to injury, the club takes a 12-8 record and three-game win streak into tonight's game against San Antonio.
Their list of victims is as impressive as any in the league, as they've beaten Phoenix, Utah, Detroit, Golden State, Houston, Chicago and Denver twice.
"I don't think the wins we've had are a fluke whatsoever," Bryant said. "In our locker room, we don't feel like the wins we've had are flukes. We've had to grind some out and go into tough places and deal with injuries and illnesses. We feel pretty good about where we're at."
Asked if he believes the Lakers are legitimate contenders in the Western Conference, he said:
"We're very young and we have a lot of growth to do and a lot of maturing to do," he said. "But we're okay."
There is a sense of relief around the Lakers organization right now, if not because the storm surrounding Kobe is over then at least because it's subsided substantially. In hindsight, Bryant believes all the drama that engulfed himself and the club throughout the off-season and training camp has actually become a positive. It was a harsh reminder that just making the playoffs is not enough.
"Sometimes you have to kind of put a fire to them a little bit so that they understand that we're playing for higher stakes," Bryant said of his teammates. "Once they understood that and saw me come into training camp saying 'Look, I'm tired of playing for the playoffs. I'm not playing for that. I don't know what you guys are playing for, but I'm not playing for that.' Once they understood that 'Hey, this guy's head is on a championship level, this is where we need to get,' then it kind of ignited another side of them and they started looking at this thing a little differently.
"I think it changed their perspective a little bit and kind of shifted their focus to 'Okay, he's playing for a championship so this is what we need to do."
But Bryant's teammates aren't the only ones who've undergone an attitude adjustment. The other Lakers say Bryant's been more sociable than ever off the court, joining teammates for lunch before road games and things like that.
"When a team goes through stuff -- whatever it is -- it either grows further apart or closer together," Luke Walton said. "Our team's been through a lot, and I think it's definitely brought us all closer together. Kobe is a huge part of the team so the only way we can get closer is if he gets closer and he's definitely gotten closer to a bunch of the guys."
Harmony in Laker-land?
Apparently so.
What is going to make brand leave the clips?Originally Posted by B1LLY HOYLE
Trade Odom for Artest.
Let Sasha and Kwame walk...go after Elton Brand.
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Looks decent to me.