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How many of these threads have been made??? think its time to get over it....
lets take a moment to remember this travesty once again. here you have a franchise(Lakers) that had done a great job of surrounding their superstar with a solid supporting cast. they went from being a team that got beat up by the phoenix buns to a team competing for the West in just a few years. but they were still one peice away from putting them over the edge.
in the entire NBA at the time, if they could have chosen one player who would be so completely fitting for their team, who would be perfectly complementary to kobe, other than tim duncan, it would probably be pau gasol.
what happens then? the griz...i mean jerry west proceeds to GIVE pau gasol to the lakers in exchange for a complete proven scrub. as predicted he is perfect for the Lakers and tips them into basically unbeatable territory. unbelievable.
biggest crock of 'trade' probably ever. even the other coaches were pissed that something so ridiculous and unfair was even allowed.
this would literally be the equivalent of if a lifetime spurs associate were in charge of a miami or orlando, and proceeded to Give the spurs dwayne wade or dwight howard in exchange for ime udoka, and proceeded to rape the rest of the league. how would the rest of the nba feel about that?
It's happened. Get the over it already.
I think he's trying to get pinked again.
Last edited by Banzai; 06-12-2009 at 02:49 PM.
ing about it won't make the Lakers beatable. ing about it won't retroactively rescind the trade.
There is already a thread ing about this on the first page. Why do you feel the need to make another one?
give me a ing break i didnt see any other threads about this!!! i made it as soon as i logged on. jesus christ ing nazi forum police around here.
Whether it's Pau Gasol or Marc Gasol, the Lakers would have been contenders either way.
As mentioned before, the Lakers were contenders prior to trading for Pau.
Pau was better for 2008 as he got the Lakers into the Finals. But this year, with Marc Gasol, the Lakers would still have been favored. And with Marc, the Lakers would have no problems signing both Ariza and Odom.
Memphis got back a very good and very $cheap$ starting Center in Marc Gasol, a #1 draft pick and an expiring contract...they made out like bandits.
Which NBA rule was broken exactly?
It sucks for a lot of us but the trade was legal.
i'd be more interested in the fifty threads dealing with the nba conspiracy behind the gasol trade if someone would tell me why memphis made the deal. were they paid off? did someone drug their food? please explain it to me.
i'm pretty sure that they were looking for the biggest expiring contract available, which they got.
Actually, I think after Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett would have been the next best complimentary guy to add to the Lakers, and then after Garnett, probably Dirk, and then after Dirk, maybe Amare. But, Gasol would have been high on the list too.
Collusion trade?
Tks to Jerry West
Is there a rule against collusion? (asking honestly, because I don't know)
Do we have proof it was broken.
I thought that as long as the salaries matched and the players involved pass their physicals, the trades were allowed.
Someone more knowledgable about traded and cap space can probably answer that.
Not de facto though. If you're going to use collusion, at least be smart about it. That's what they did. Jerry West was already gone from the Memphis front office, so as shady and as suspect as it was, his hands were "technically" clean. No violation under the CBA. Plus, the NBA office could have still stopped the trade if they felt collusion was involved. They didn't.
We all know or at least think there was something very shady about it, but sam is right. There was no rule broken in the manner they handled it.
I think there is.
But again, althought West wasn't the Grizz official GM anymore, you can suspect he had a long arm involved in the trade.
I mean, a player like Pau for nothing?
Also, McHale sending KG to his old team and former teammate (Ainge) was kind of weird, but at least he got something in return, so it's easier to accept.
ANd I'm sure David Stern didn't care either : " yes, this time we have our Lakers-Celtics finals ! :
I agree, technically, nothing wrong was done
Dirk would be the best of those to go along with LeBron.
its collusion..i admit..i gave Jerry $50 to give us Gasol.
I knew it !!!
you know its true cuz i talk to Jerry in a first name bases. Sometimes i just call him "Jer".I knew it !!!
Everyone here knows that this was a trade made to please Kobe by both teams. Yes, the league got raped and the anger is justified but it was a perfectly legal trade. If franchises like Memphis want to hand their opponents "gifts" and get nothing in return for their franchise player that is up to them. West fedexed Kobe a Gasol. It's done and was perfectly legal. If they wanted to rebuild they would have taken Chicago's offer for him, this was clearly a "gift".
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