**the official la lakers thread**

[[ DUBBZZ ]]

lol, which is why he passed to Mo how many times?

C'mon, dude is notorious for passing the buck during clutchtime. Plus, you cant say a guy who avg 6 assists a game hates to pass.

[[ DUBBZZ ]]

Felton
Kobe
Peace
Pau
Dwight


i'd roll with that

Dude, that's a championship squad right there.

We'll def need to unload LO though & prob a few others, but we should be ok.

[F l i c k e r]

C'mon, dude is notorious for passing the buck during clutchtime. Plus, you cant say a guy who avg 6 assists a game hates to pass.

Nah. People defer to that guy all the time. Even the Heat. Had everyone going "oh the Heat is Lebron's team." and they really believed it cause the 'stats'.


I agree he'll pass at cluch-time but most of the game... run n dunk.

He'd be so much better if he had developed more skills.

[CumulousClouds]

Deron Williams......

What could be a Possible trade for him?

I heard someone say if we get Paul and Howard, Orlando gets Bynum and odom and new Orleans gets gasol.

I want to keep gasol so Howard and gasol can ball up together .

[Left Hook Tua]

orlando wants BOTH pau gasol AND andrew bynum.

PLUS take on hedo turkoglu's garbage contract.



fuck that.

let them lose dwight howard to free agency.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

orlando wants BOTH pau gasol AND andrew bynum.

PLUS take on hedo turkoglu's garbage contract.



fuck that.

let them lose dwight howard to free agency.

both Pau and Drew?!??!


hhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[-MAKAVELLI-]

Adrian Wojnarowski interview today on the Max & Marcellis Show

Doesn't see a realistic way that Lakers end up with both Dwight Howard and Chris Paul; possible but unlikely

Chris Paul:

- Hornets not too fond of Pau Gasol for Chris Paul trade, keeping it open

- Chris Paul has better chance of being traded to the Clippers (whom he would be willing to re-sign with) than landing with the Lakers

Dwight Howard:

- Lakers are the favorites to land Dwight Howard, followed by the Nets

- Magic likes Andrew Bynum more than Brook Lopez

- The package may look something like Andrew Bynum + Lamar Odom for Dwight Howard + Hedo Turkoglu

- Pretty good chance Dwight Howard becomes a Laker than him staying with the Magic

- Believes that if Dwight Howard just tells the Magic flat out he won't re-sign and wants to be traded, that he would already be a Laker

[-MAKAVELLI-]

from that laker hating b1tch Bill Simmons

The Trade:

Lakers get:
- Chris Paul
- Trevor Ariza
- Emeka Okafor

Hornets get:
- Andrew Bynum
- Lamar Odom
- Steve Blake
- Derrick Caracter

Additional Notes:
I'm not sure the Hornets would keep Odom here — they could spin him to, say, the Clippers (for Aminu and Ryan Gomes) or Minnesota (for Michael Beasley and Anthony Randolph).

The Verdict:
As a full-fledged Lakers hater, this one sends chills down my spine. The Hornets save $7 million this season, rebuild around Bynum (good luck with that) and dump the last three years of their Okafor/Ariza deals ($62.7 million). The Lakers get a true center back (Okafor, an underrated double-double guy who can protect the rim), a defensive swingman who knows how to play with Kobe (Ariza), and one of the biggest point guard upgrades in basketball history (going from Steve Blake and Derek Fisher to Chris Paul). They're reinventing their team AND making it better. Yikes.

[Left Hook Tua]

both Pau and Drew?!??!


hhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

we don't need no ****ing dwight howard or chris paul.

get deron williams and we're good to go.


get rid of bynum.

our team is better with pau and lamar.

he ain't the future anyway.

mr. glass delicate mother****er.


bynum limited playing time = 3 straight finals , 2 straight titles

bynum healthy = 2nd round loss


bynum is a cancer. get rid of him now before he spreads.

[Left Hook Tua]

from that laker hating b1tch Bill Simmons

why the **** would we do that?

we can get a good point guard just giving up bynum.

all that to get chris paul?


his bias makes him undervalue the lakers players subconsciously imo.


lakers can probably get a good point guard just giving up bynum.

why give up bynum + odom + one of our young kids?