Pop's trade committee

[Venti Quattro]

While the committee was investigating the Pau Gasol trade, didn't they foresee an extreme event such as what just happened the past week? :flag:

[Koolaid_Man]

While the committee was investigating the Pau Gasol trade, didn't they foresee an extreme event such as what just happened the past week? :flag:


they tried to copy us so bad they went out and hired a rapist....:lol

[ElNono]

Should still be put together, tbh... you know the Lakeshow are going to be calling up ZBo and Marc once Bynum's rotting knee falls off...

[cobbler]

Vindication for all of us who insisted the trade was good for both teams. Thank you Spurs!

[ogait]

The trade was not even, get over it.

Spurs loosing now doesn't vindicate the fairness of that trade at all.

Marc Gasol is still a bellow average player that looked good against a very bad Spurs frontline.

[namlook]

They asked Pop about the trade again after the game and he played it off like he was just joking when he made the original comments. Pop knows it was a good trade for Memphis.

[ChrisRichards]

Lol Pop
Lol Should've kept Scola
lol $21 mil owed to a Duncan
lol ginobili
lol Neal with it
lol 61 win chokers
lol DeJuan Blair as the next Barkley
lol should've tanked for a lottery pick next season
lol Che Guevarra

[cobbler]

The trade was not even, get over it.

Spurs loosing now doesn't vindicate the fairness of that trade at all.

Marc Gasol is still a bellow average player that looked good against a very bad Spurs frontline.

3 years later the Lakers are going for the 3peat... and Memphis is a 50/50 shot IMO to meet them in the WCF. Saying Marc is below avg is just moronic. Tell me this... would you trade Pau for ZBo and Marc right now? I would. '

Vindication does not come from beating the Spurs, though it is an accomplishment, it comes from watching that team play with the effort, defense, and skillsets the trade allowed them to aquire. They are a good looking young squad. And they were without Gay. Basically, the farm team taking over the role of little brother the Spurs have been so good at for so long. :toast

[namlook]

The trade was not even, get over it.

Spurs loosing now doesn't vindicate the fairness of that trade at all.

Marc Gasol is still a bellow average player that looked good against a very bad Spurs frontline.

Result of the Pau trade:

Darrell Arthur
Greivis Vasquez
Marc Gasol
Zach Randolph

That's a heck of a deal for The Grizz. The Lakers would be willing to trade Pau back to Memphis for those four players. How about it? :lol

[Juggity]

Result of the Pau trade:

Darrell Arthur
Greivis Vasquez
Marc Gasol
Zach Randolph

That's a heck of a deal for The Grizz. The Lakers would be willing to trade Pau back to Memphis for those four players. How about it? :lol

The Lakers have 2 championships because of the Pau trade and the Grizz have (dot, dot, dot)

[ChrisRichards]

lets put things in perepective here ok? its still a a lopsided trade and the lakers got the best out it. they won 2 championships w/ 3 straight finals appearances. with gasol on board they also managed to keep kobe happy and didnt lose him for luol deng and some fillers.

[ogait]

3 years later the Lakers are going for the 3peat... and Memphis is a 50/50 shot IMO to meet them in the WCF. Saying Marc is below avg is just moronic. Tell me this... would you trade Pau for ZBo and Marc right now? I would. '

Vindication does not come from beating the Spurs, though it is an accomplishment, it comes from watching that team play with the effort, defense, and skillsets the trade allowed them to aquire. They are a good looking young squad. And they were without Gay. Basically, the farm team taking over the role of little brother the Spurs have been so good at for so long. :toast

Really? You would trade Marc Gasol and Zbo for Pau right now? Well so do I, that would pretty much guarantee the Lakers wouldn't win a championship this season.

[namlook]

The Lakers have 2 championships because of the Pau trade and the Grizz have (dot, dot, dot)

The Grizz have no championships because they don't have Kobe Bryant. I'm saying that the Lakers would trade Pau back to Memphis for the players they received as a result of the trade but the Grizz wouldn't do it. Obviously a great deal for the Grizz.

[ChrisRichards]

The Lakers aint winning jack with Darrell Arthur, Vazquez and Marc Gasol I can guarantee you that lol

[namlook]

The Lakers aint winning jack with Darrell Arthur, Vazquez and Marc Gasol I can guarantee you that lol

Zach Randolph was picked up because the Lakers freed up cap space for the Grizz. He's part of the deal.

[Isitjustme?]

Zach Randolph was picked up because the Lakers freed up cap space for the Grizz. He's part of the deal.

Only a Laker fan could make a claim that retarded.

[Jelloisjigglin]

Only a Laker fan could make a claim that retarded.


How is that retarded? It's the truth.

[namlook]

Only a Laker fan could make a claim that retarded.

Sounds like you don't know much about how the salary cap works. Free cap space is like gold because it allows you to add players. The main reason the Grizz made the trade with the Lakers was to get free cap space. The Lakers had the biggest expiring contract to trade and that's why the deal was made. The cap space was used to get Randolph.

[Isitjustme?]

Every time someone cuts someone or salary dumps them and then signs someone else is it called a trade?

Idiotic. #reaching

[Isitjustme?]

Shame the Bulls didn't get Lebron to sign there. The Hinrich trade could have netted them Lebron and a first rounder. Best trade of all time.

[ElNono]

Sounds like you don't know much about how the salary cap works. Free cap space is like gold because it allows you to add players. The main reason the Grizz made the trade with the Lakers was to get free cap space. The Lakers had the biggest expiring contract to trade and that's why the deal was made. The cap space was used to get Randolph.

Sounds you don't know what you're talking about. Pau was traded in 2008. ZBo wasn't in Memphis until 2009. Memphis had ample time to look for better deals during the offseason and had nothing to be rushed about.

Not only that, Memphis already had the cap space used when they got ZBo, since he was traded for Quentin Richardson.

[cobbler]

Sounds you don't know what you're talking about. Pau was traded in 2008. ZBo wasn't in Memphis until 2009. Memphis had ample time to look for better deals during the offseason and had nothing to be rushed about.

Not only that, Memphis already had the cap space used when they got ZBo, since he was traded for Quentin Richardson.

They liked what they saw in Z. And look how it turned out. How can you dismiss that?

[namlook]

Sounds you don't know what you're talking about. Pau was traded in 2008. ZBo wasn't in Memphis until 2009. Memphis had ample time to look for better deals during the offseason and had nothing to be rushed about.

Not only that, Memphis already had the cap space used when they got ZBo, since he was traded for Quentin Richardson.

Keep it up with the revisionist history if it makes you feel better. Yeah, no other teams knew Pau was available and the Grizz didn't use their cap space from the Gasol trade to get Randolph. :lmao Half of the Grizz's roster came as a result of moves made with the cap space and picks and players from the Gasol trade.

"Heisley and General Manager Chris Wallace said that it was known throughout the league Gasol was available during the 2007-8 season, and that the Lakers were the best and most willing partner. The Grizzlies received Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, Aaron McKie, the rights to Marc Gasol (Pau’s younger brother) and two first-round draft picks.

But through those picks and trades, that package was flipped to create a large chunk of Memphis’s core: Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph, Darrell Arthur, Hamed Haddadi, Greivis Vasquez and Sam Young"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/sports/basketball/01grizzlies.html?_r=2

[Isitjustme?]

Shame the Bulls didn't get Lebron to sign there. The Hinrich trade could have netted them Lebron and a first rounder. Best trade of all time.

[ElNono]

Keep it up with the revisionist history if it makes you feel better. Yeah, no other teams knew Pau was available and the Grizz didn't use their cap space from the Gasol trade to get Randolph. :lmao Half of the Grizz's roster came as a result of moves made with the cap space and picks and players from the Gasol trade.

Which could have been made with the same or more cap space trading Gasol for a better deal at season's end....
You're now trying to tell us that they couldn't have traded for ZBo in July 2009 if they didn't trade Pau in February 2008... :lol



"Heisley and General Manager Chris Wallace said that it was known throughout the league Gasol was available during the 2007-8 season, and that the Lakers were the best and most willing partner.

What did you think Wallace should have said? "We colluded"? :lmao


The Grizzlies received Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, Aaron McKie, the rights to Marc Gasol (Pau’s younger brother) and two first-round draft picks.

But through those picks and trades, that package was flipped to create a large chunk of Memphis’s core: Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph, Darrell Arthur, Hamed Haddadi, Greivis Vasquez and Sam Young"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/sports/basketball/01grizzlies.html?_r=2

None of those guys were signed before the 2008 season ended, which makes you point entirely moot.

Keep trying to reach though :lol

[Isitjustme?]

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[ChumpDumper]

I can't believe lakerfan is still butthurt about this.