Lakers Thread

[Fresh8]

What's a better deal then?

Lamar for Penny or Lamar for Francis?

- Can't remember where I read that Penny trade though...

[KB24]

What's a better deal then?

Lamar for Penny or Lamar for Francis?

- Can't remember where I read that Penny trade though...

None of them, let Odom stay.

[Doobie]

Kobe has a good heart , I just saw him with a little kid and he honestly looked like he had a good heart man . He seriously just earned back all my love , and is once again one of my favorite players.

[J@3]

What's a better deal then?

Lamar for Penny or Lamar for Francis?

- Can't remember where I read that Penny trade though...

Lamar for Penny is a garbage trade too. It's not like the Lakers NEED cap space next season, even with 14 million expiring they'd still be over the cap regardless.

[dada]

The Penny deal I read about on ESPN but I never hear Odom's name mentioned. Such a stupid deal if they try to get him. The Lakers keep saying they are a player or so away yet I dont see them trying to get any decent ones.

[Fresh8]

I don't see any point in rebuilding right now... there's still half a season left. Isn't Kup... watever his name is in europe or something?

i couldnt imagine him pulling off a trade right now.

[Fenix]

Kobe has a good heart , I just saw him with a little kid and he honestly looked like he had a good heart man . He seriously just earned back all my love , and is once again one of my favorite players.

You like pedophiles?

[Fresh8]

Who said anyone was a pedophile?

If Kobe was a pedophile... DoobieKnicks would have wrote:

Kobe has a good heart , I just saw him with a little kid and he honestly looked like he had a good heart man with that seedy smile. He seriously just earned back all my love, and is once again one of my favorite players.

[Cloudy]

Yeah Kobe has a good heart, he was hugging this boy around during the Katrina game..
I read somewhere, scientists say it's normal for men to commit adultery..

[Isaiah]

wtf haha...

if the Lakers make a move on the deadline or even if they dont, i hope that they just wont repeat that drastic 2-19 finish last season

[Fresh8]

They are looking for a veteran guard atm.

[Matthew]

lol Sit never fails us with his insider knowledge. I also hear the lakers are looking for a championship.

[KIG1]

you know the lakers could send lamar odom to the cavs

[J@3]

For who?

[AlwaysWhat,NeverWhy]

lol Sit never fails us with his insider knowledge. I also hear the lakers are looking for a championship.

hehe, quite the brainstorming there... as far as lame comments are concerned, that is.

you know the lakers could send lamar odom to the cavs

For whom?

[KIG1]

gooden would leave, damon jones would leave

and orlando would be involved, so would the knicks.

ORL trades
Steve Francis to LAL
CLE trades
Drew Gooden to NYK
Damon Jones NYK
NYK trades
Jamal Crawford ORL
Penny Hardaway ORL
LAL trades
Lamar Odom to CLE

[dada]

Anything involving getting Steve Francis instead of a talented big guy is a thumbs down for me.

edit: unless its Smuch for Steve.

[Mikki]

If Francis were to go to LAL, it's goodbye to the Smush Parker bandwagon.

[Drex]

hehe, quite the brainstorming there... as far as lame comments are concerned, that is.

You know about those, right?

[DB]

Latest rumour: T-MAC to LAL in a threeway deal.






And no i'm not talking about tod macculloh

[Doobie]

Link to this very unlikely to happen trade??

[AlwaysWhat,NeverWhy]

You know about those, right?

Yup. I looked it up in Wiki.

[DB]

It started off with this article from yesterday:

By Eric Pincus
for HOOPSWORLD.com
Feb 20, 2006, 07:23

It's been (allegedly) a busy week for the Los Angeles Lakers. According to various printed sources, they've tried to acquire Channing Frye from the New York Knicks and Steve Francis from the Orlando Magic.

In both cases, Lamar Odom was mentioned as the key piece leaving the Lakers.

Never mind that neither rumor was true . . .

The Lakers have a very short list of players they would trade Odom for and through Frye is a quality rookie who may have a nice, long NBA career . . . he's not on that list.

Simply stated, the Lakers aren't looking to dump Odom for cap room and a young prospect.

The idea of Phil Jackson signing off on Steve Francis is really hard to fathom. Though Francis is a talented player, his style of play is not ideal for the triangle offense. Jackson has never shown a preference for a ball-dominant point guard.

At least Francis is a former All-Star, which is at least in the ballpark of what the Lakers should receive in return for Odom should they decide to trade him . . . but he's simply not the right fit.

All-Star Game
The lone Laker representative, Kobe Bryant, may not have scored a lot (eight points total), but the West turned to him when they needed a basket in the final minute. Bryant came through to tie the game 120 all.

Instead of looking to carry the scoring load, Bryant's goal for the night seemed to be setting up teammate Tracy McGrady to be the All-Star MVP. McGrady finished with 36 points but wasn't able to connect on a shot to tie after Dwyane Wade hit the go-ahead basket with 16 seconds left on the clock. The loose ball ended up in Bryant's hands but he couldn't gain control of it and the East got the win.

Bryant finished with eight assists in his 26 minutes. Had McGrady hit that shot and the West prevailed in what would likely have been an overtime contest, there's little question that "T-Mac" would have earned the MVP.

Watching the duo of Bryant and McGrady certainly sparked some crazy ideas. With the Rockets struggling for wins and McGrady struggling to stay healthy (back) . . . could Houston be ready to give up on the Yao Ming\McGrady experiment?

Why not bring former Rocket Steve Francis back home . . . perhaps send Odom to Orlando?

Just as previous All-Star Games have fueled speculation that the Lakers would one day try to pair Kevin Garnett with Bryant . . . Sunday's game may have sparked a new fantasy.

The Bottom Line
Ultimately it's most likely the Lakers don't make any moves at the deadline, at least that's what key personnel have told the local outlets.

The fans perceive a desperate team, unable to win close games . . . wasting away the prime of one of the Top 60 players of all time (except in the opinion of Charles Barkley who doesn't have as much esteem for Bryant). Are the fans wrong?

The 62-point game in three quarters . . . the 81-point game against the Toronto Raptors . . . the game winning shot on opening night against the Denver Nuggets . . . all the heroics from Kobe Bryant and the Lakers are a .500 team?

Sure acquiring McGrady may be a ludicrous suggestion considering most view him as untouchable in Houston . . . but lean times produce vivid dreams.

http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_16216.shtml



And now Rick Bucher just said on ESPN News that T-mac could be moved before the deadline and since the Lakerboards are packed with "T-mac to LAL" threads i just tought i would share it with you guys.

[Matthew]

hehe, quite the brainstorming there... as far as lame comments are concerned, that is.

Pity your comment doesn't have any vailidity to it.


Getting back to the thread thoug, DB, wouldn't it be ironic, tmac and Kobe on the same team? Both high schoolers, late lottery picks who developed into true superstars of the nba, ones one early, the other was scoring alot, and now we've seen a mini role reversal, tmac only wanting to win and kobe piling up points, then to be on the same team.

It won't happen, but it would be alot of fun.

[Drex]

Damn, I checked NBA.com, and it said that at the end on the 4th, the Lakers and the Blazers made 1 point combined...that's got to be a mistake, right?

EDIT: It's on ESPN.com too, WTF?