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Cry me a Riverwalk.
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Cry me a Riverwalk.
That depends.
Does Brett Hume get one?
lol at these spurs fans getting so butthurt. They are afraid their legacy as team of the decade is in jeopardy.
Accepting the award for the Lakers, NBA Commissioner David Stern.
Why not, he made it possible.
I refer to the February 1, 2008 trade of Pau Gasol to the Lakers in exchange for (drumroll please):
The man, the myth, the uniform stuffing known as Kwame Brown. (Who Memphis chose not to resign).
Sir Marc the Lesser, younger brother to Pau. In fairness, an adequate NBA forward, but no Pau Gasol.
Jarvis Crittenton. Traded (along with his 5 ppg) to the Wizards for a future draft choice.
Aaron McKie. A retired player included to make the cap space work under trade rules.
A 2008 draft choice. This became Donte Greene and then Darrell Arthur (5 points, 4 rebounds per game).
A 2010 draft choice. Considering the Lakers will likely win the le, this would be the last pick of the first round. Essentially, a worthless pick.
In other words, Pau Gasol (19 points, 10 rebounds) for the basketball equivalent of chum (fish bait).
Why?
Easy enough. Memphis has never made money. Things were getting bleak before the trade got made. The Grizzlies might have needed an escape hatch, a buyer, or backing for a line of credit. Maybe even dibs on a relocation site.
Suddenly the Grizzlies traded Gasol and all the talk about moving or folding went away. Just recently Memphis tapped into a $20 million loan from the NBA.
Funny thing.
The Grizzlies didn't entertain a single offer from any other team in the league. Went straight for the Lakers lousy deal. Stuck the fans in Memphis. Stuck the rest of the league.
But made David Stern a happy man.
Next up, LeBron James.
Stern will eventually do for King James what he has done for Kobe. A marquee player will appear on the Cavaliers roster for a pocket full of magic beans. Or maybe it will end up being the Knicks roster. That would make Nike happy. And Nike and NBA seem to smile at the same moment an awful lot.
It will happen.
Just as surely as the league chastised a referee for calling LeBron James for travelling earlier this season. As surely as the Lakers caught all the breaks against Denver. As surely Pau Gasol is a Laker.
Congratulations Kobe, you did it all by yourself.
Sort of.
yah,...lets give him a ring for giving us Gasol...wooot...Lakers champs...feels good huh Spurscenter
Chris Wallace should get some Depends becauses after LA ed him in that trade, I doubt he has much anal integrity left.
Buss should let Kupchick go and sign on Chris Wallace. After all without Wallace none of this would be possible. No other gm in their right mind would sign off on that bull of a deal.
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