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Morrow. Get him.
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Blake is a very good pickup, IMO.
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Blake is a decent pickup. I thought the MLE was round 6 mil a year, does that mean we could get someone else with the remaining 2 mil. All we need is T-Mac to sign and we're set
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Free-agent buzz: Blake joining Lakers
By Adrian Wojnarowski and Marc J. Spears, Yahoo! Sports
1 hour, 13 minutes ago
Free-agent point guard Steve Blake has reached agreement on a four-year, $16 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Before the Lakers secured a commitment from Blake, general manager Mitch Kupchak had Bucks point guard Luke Ridnour willing to take a four-year, $12 million offer, a league source says. The Lakers then gave Blake a deadline of Friday afternoon to accept their four-year, $16 million offer.
Once Blake did, the Lakers obtained the kind of savvy point guard to eventually transition from Derek Fisher.
Blake broke the news of his agreement on the radio show of Oregonian columnist John Canzano.
Blake was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers by the Portland Trail Blazers in February and averaged 6.8 points and 6.1 points in 29 games for them.
This idiot & his deadlines, great negotiating tactics i'll tell ya what....
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what the hell ? how are you going to offer fisher 2.5 mill and then offer steve blake a 4 mill contract? what kind of backward stuff is that?
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Relax with the stoneface sonOriginally Posted by goldenarmz97
Originally Posted by LiCeNseD To BaLL
Yeah, Mitch sure is an idiot. Pfft...Pau Gasol trade? Wack. Signing Fisher again? Wack. Signing Ron Artest? Psh...like he helped. Yeah, Mitch sure has been an idiot for us...boy, the things our team could do if we didnt have an idiot for a GM.
This is also the guy who signed Luke & Sasha to long term deals, traded Caron Butler for Kwame & wants D-Fish to take less than Steve Blake. The deals you mentioned were due to a cost cutting owner & 2 guys who had an affinity for the Lakers, they weren't due to Mitch's genius...
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exactly.
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The lakers probably offered the MLE to miller and he did not take it. What can they do about that? Tmac is a veteran minimum type of player so he can still be signed. Dude is made of glass so risking more than the vet min is not a good look. Morrow is a restricted free agent so the warriors can match the lakers low ball offer.Originally Posted by NobleKane
believe me i would love for blake to come in and prove my hate wrong but its frickin steve blake!!!!
dude has been tossed around by some of the worst franchises in the nba and we pay 4 mill for this guy?? we blow the mle on him?? wheres miller? wheres tmac? and again they go from miller to blake??? and waste the mle smh. if they pay blake 4 mill they better pay fisher 6 mill
I don't think the lakers can afford to wait it out considering the ridiculous contracts scrubs have been getting.
also, blake is a major upgrade over shannon and farmar at the PG spot. Those dudes were shoot first and turnover second guys. They suck at shooting too. A 3point shooting first pass pg is better and cheaper.
FISHER NEEDS TO BE RESIGNED THOUGH. It will be a failure if he is not resigned.
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Oh, I dunno, it might have something to do with AGE. Look at his numbers- they're spiraling downward in every category.
How much do you think a 36-year old player who shoots his age in percentage and can't defend any of the 28 starting PGs in the NBA deserves? This is how you run a successful business, son.
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ill say this though if fisher returns, i rather have blake who knows his role and wants to play for a world champion team then farmar who would rather start for the indiana pacers.
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QFTOriginally Posted by LiCeNseD To BaLL
Yeah, Mitch sure is an idiot. Pfft...Pau Gasol trade? Wack. Signing Fisher again? Wack. Signing Ron Artest? Psh...like he helped. Yeah, Mitch sure has been an idiot for us...boy, the things our team could do if we didnt have an idiot for a GM.
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I mentioned this in the FA thread but the Lakers are doing Fisher wrong if they're offering him less money than Steve Blake. Doesn't matter how old Fish is, the fact is he's still contributing and helping the team win championships. You just don't lowball one of the leaders and captain of the team especially after he just helped you win another ring. I don't blame him if he wants to leave because it's not right if guys like Sasha, Luke and now Steve Blake are making more money than him.
Don't get me wrong, Steve Blake is a solid player and I think he'll do well with the Lakers. But is he really a good signing if it cost's the team both Farmar and Fish?
Don't get me wrong, Steve Blake is a solid player and I think he'll do well with the Lakers. But is he really a good signing if it cost's the team both Farmar and Fish?
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Good signing, its not like any top flight pg's were available anyway...The market was limited from the gate.
I can see Blake being effective, he'll have a ton of open space with all the attention Pau & Kobe get.
I do hope they sign Fish back though, i dont care how old he is...His leadership is underated and hes clutch as $&^!.
I can see Blake being effective, he'll have a ton of open space with all the attention Pau & Kobe get.
I do hope they sign Fish back though, i dont care how old he is...His leadership is underated and hes clutch as $&^!.
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Steve Blake? damn, i didn't want his *$%. Especially not for 4 million a year
Hopefully he proves me wrong
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lol i dont give a f how young steve blake is .. id rather have fisher, the leader of this team on this team rather than that guy who has no playoff experience.
dont come to me with that "this is how you run a business" stuff .. you just dont disrespect a guy like fisher like that.. especially after how he always comes up big in the playoffs.
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I was hoping we would have fish before we signed a point
Damn pay fish though and I'm confident he will (hopefully)
As for Blake I'm not familiar with him as much but everytime he played us he would always have a good night then again we always make opposing point guards look like all-stars
Damn pay fish though and I'm confident he will (hopefully)
As for Blake I'm not familiar with him as much but everytime he played us he would always have a good night then again we always make opposing point guards look like all-stars
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If they gave blake 4 mil a season fish BETTER get his money.
Fish means as much to this team as Kobe does. Not on the court but off the court. Leadership....
Kobe hasn't won a ring without him....
Fish means as much to this team as Kobe does. Not on the court but off the court. Leadership....
Kobe hasn't won a ring without him....
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I don't mind the Steve Blake signing, he's a very servicable PG.
Fisher is just testing the waters, but he knows where his heart it. A lot of people are piss about the offer that was given to him are probably the same dudes that bashed him all year
Gerald Green come wit it homie
Fisher is just testing the waters, but he knows where his heart it. A lot of people are piss about the offer that was given to him are probably the same dudes that bashed him all year
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Not sold on Steve Blake, smh.
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the main thing that i do not like about this is that Mitch offered Blake 4 million for 4 years, a player who has not tested when it matters most, and then he tries to lowball Fisher, a 5-time champion that has put the Lakers in the position to win the championship many times with his clutch shots and leadership. And Blake is going to be a bench player?
#%% is that? smh
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I have a feeling Fish will walk, Blake will be the starter, and Sasha will be backup guard..smh PAY FISH FIRST
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Blake is a good signing
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lol gerald greeen....man... wasnt he projected to be picked by the lakers when he was drafted? who did we pick instead of him? he was supposed to be the next tmac
the dude ebanks needs to work on his threes. he actually looks like ariza
the dude ebanks needs to work on his threes. he actually looks like ariza
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Fish deserve at least 5 millions. He suck during the regular season but this guy is a champion when it come playoff time. He's the guy that would shoot threes in clutch moment and would provide help to Kobe. I don't see us repeating if Fish is not on the squad.
