What doe shave Penny Hardaway have to do with the conversation??
And you may think that Gasol was a gift....
Clearly it wasnt....
Your such an expert on this whole subject why arent you a NBA GM???
You took Gasol for nothing!!!!Best bit of business ever!!!!
This is what people are missing, Jerry West kept on rebuilding the Lakers from his office in Memphis.
I guess same could be said with Mchale helping the Celtics!
Haha exactly.... better check who his paychecks are coming from
Gasol clearly was a gift. That's why Stephen A. Smith ranted about it.
Stephen A. Smith > Pennysdaman > oz >
no more needs to be said
Because the Scrub teams you follow/support have done nothing and probably do nothing in the next 20YRS??
Why hating on "scrub" teams?
Why hating on "scrub" teams?
Wow. Thanks Jim. Where do you fit in there? No seriously, I'm just happy to be mentioned in the same sentance as Stephen A. Thanks for setting us all straight.
Anyone can call that trade whatever they want. I'm not blind. I know who the GM's are. I understnd the history of those GM's. One of them is a Laker who is on every NBA Jersey in the league. I'm just saying we clearly didn't do bad out of it but no one had a gun to anyones head. We get the devloped Gasol, Memphis are left with the up and coming Gasol. We clearly got the better end, I'm not blind. No one said boo about it when we lost last season but they're quick to try and tear this season apart any which way they can. It's actually funny at times so I don't know why I don't just play the sidelines a bit more. What's funnier is when we traded for Kwame giving up Caron, no one said squat then either. Why would they? Lakers lost out. Clearly.
I'd expect all this kind of stuff from a Boston fan, it would be due and I'd just take it. But when someone makes it their personal vendetta against the Lakers and they can't even say who they follow, because it ranges from month to month, season to season, then I can't help but speak up. We follow a team. We support that team. You would think when following teams you'd have the better end of the deal. It's clearly better odds. Obviously not. That to me is where that hate is fueled. I still haven't heard the problem with the Ariza deal. I just hear the same answer repeated since day 1 where we got Gasol. Saying it was a pure gift is great insight. It's about as realistic and as intelligent as that Avatar; Kobe wasn't in that movie at all. I do like it though but maybe you should whip one up of AI on the cover of 'Menace to Society'.
I'll leave it there before this fun little thread get's closed down.
It's funny, this went from being a WTF Thread to something interesting...
I'd say that Gasol was picked up for nothing, but who really cares? If the Lakers could pull of such a deal, we should commend them, cos our own team(s) couldnt do it!
This is what people are missing, Jerry West kept on rebuilding the Lakers from his office in Memphis.
I guess same could be said with Mchale helping the Celtics!
Areed.
Miami gave up Butler, Odom and Grant for Shaq.
Shaq then turned into a 40-year version of injury-ridden Andrew Bynum.
We traded him for Marion we we suddenly discovered can't score without a great point guard.
Who we then traded for JO, so we are back to having a 30 year-old injury-ridden Andrew Bynum.
Gave up? Are you kidding me?
We traded you guys a championship, pure and simple. He already had the injury problems on the cards so it wasn't like we sold you a lemon out of a dealership.
You guys knew the kind of mileage a guy like that had but Pat wanted that Championship then and there. Shaq delivered. Sucks with the wear and tear that couldn't go on for long but the city of Miami got what they wanted.
As for your other post, don't stress man. I'm not implying I'm higher than Stephen A Smith but I don't need people telling me I'm lower than him either. :v:
Yes 'gave' up.
Caron Butler is a top 5 SF in the NBA right now and Odom could be an all-star if he started on over half the teams in the NBA.
Prior to Shaq coming to us he had played 67 games 3 seasons in a row. Sure he missed a couple but theres no way you could say we envisioned him having one 70 game season and then not be able to play over 59 for the remaining seasons he was on the team.
When we traded for him yes we knew he was old, he was 32 at that point but in no way did we think he would only have one near-full season with us.
What's funnier is when we traded for Kwame giving up Caron, no one said squat then either. Why would they? Lakers lost out. Clearly.
I'd expect all this kind of stuff from a Boston fan, it would be due and I'd just take it. But when someone makes it their personal vendetta against
the Lakers and they can't even say who they follow, because it ranges from month to month, season to season, then I can't help but speak up. We follow a team.
We support that team. You would think when following teams you'd have the better end of the deal. It's clearly better odds. Obviously not. That to me is where
that hate is fueled.
I still haven't heard the problem with the Ariza deal.
It's about as realistic and as intelligent as that Avatar; Kobe wasn't in that movie at all. I do like it though but maybe you should whip one up of AI on
the cover of 'Menace to Society'.
Sure the Lakers lost out..... but Caron wasn't exactly the all-star then he has been the last few years with Washington & I'm sure the Lakers thought they could try & bring out some of the 'talent' that Kwame supposedley had.... but it didn't work out.
I can't help but think that this is aimed at me..... ok, let's get this straight once & for all.... I'm a player follower, not a team follower..... if one of the guys I collect like DWills or AI plays for a certain team then I will be following them, if they change teams then I will also change the team I am following. I don't live in a certain city in the US so I am NOT connected to any one team.... if you choose to follow a certain team, then that is your prerogative, as it is mine to be able to follow whatever team(s) I want; I don't give a **** if it gives me more "better odds" for one of my teams to win & also don't give a **** what you think.
So please enough of the comments about the teams I follow or "choose" to follow as you like to put it. I really can't remember the specifics, all I remember is thinking that they got a pretty good deal out of it. But if I had to guess maybe the players the Magic got back they may have cut? I really don't know..... maybe there wasn't much in it??
Come on.... I'm sure you're intelligent enough to know what the image is poking fun at!?
When I take the **** mentioning following team(s) and all that, it's based on the last two seasons where you seem more than happy to support anyone facing LA.
You've got to be ****ting me right!? I thought we went through this a few weeks ago???
Ok... I really don't know exactly what you would like me to do when the lakers face an opponent in a series? Root for the lakers or be indifferent to the series? Cause clearing I'm not "allowed" to root for the opposing team...
But you will never hear me backing a team that the Spurs play.
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