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I loved this guy as a Laker but he gets no sympathy from me for what his agent did to his career. He gainfully employed this guy and fully deserves what he got coming to him.
It didn't make any sense to me why Kupchak would dump Ariza like a sack of rocks and jump ship to Artest once free agency began. Kupchak is very conservative and I know he was willing to give Ariza the contract he deserved, which was slightly above the MLE. Ariza's greed and money hungry agent thought they could play hardball and force Mitch into paying him significantly more and the whole thing ended up backfiring in his face. Now Ariza is stuck on a ty HOU team going into rebuild mode while he watches his hometown team likely make it back to the Finals.
He just learned a very valuable business lesson. Don't with Buss.
http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=13174
Ariza was Plan A: With the Los Angeles Laker boldly agreeing to terms with forward Ron Artest, General Manager Mitch Kupchak has landed a player the team has been itching to acquire since he was in Indiana.
The cost was the well-liked Trevor Ariza, who has agreed to sign an MLE deal with the Houston Rockets (~$32.3 million).
A source tells HOOPSWORLD that Kupchak was prepared to give Ariza an offer equivalent to the full MLE but at 10.5% raises, totaling at approximately $33.8 million over five years.
LA's ceiling might have been a $6 million starting salary for $36 million over five but before negotiations progressed after 9:00pm Pacific on Tuesday night, the source says that Ariza's agent, David Lee, took a confrontational approach with Kupchak.
Lee wanted a deal in the $50 million range and took offense to the team's stance that Trevor should test the market first for that level of compensation.
By the next morning, the Lakers were going after Artest in full force with Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom and even Magic Johnson reaching out to the Houston forward.
LA was acknowledging privately that Ariza was going down the path of Ronny Turiaf, a player the team had great affection for and wanted to keep but couldn't because of economics.
Ariza's agent ended up settling for significantly less money with the Rockets, at least based on the expectations he presented to Kupchak.
dumbass agent
lol odom worry about your own contract bud
except artests
david lee is an agent too?
Hey did you know there's a thread talking about how ing stupid you are? I'm about to go all Leonard/SpursDynasty on your ass
You're so obsessed with me, it's kind of cute. I've got my own little stalker.
So Andrew Bynum got what he deserved too? A four year extension worth about $14.5 million per? He deserve that for choosing David Lee as his agent?
No I'm just calling it like I see it, you're a little 17 year old bag with no social life just trying to piss ppl off and I see right through it.
No, everyone thinks you're ing stupid.
I am thinking that is why the Lakers told Lee to go himself. Bynum has been hurt quite a bit and hasn't been able to really "earn" the money.
I'd be pissed if Bynum doesn't do his job next season.
Thats why you don't pick a New York player to be your agent.
I get where Trevor is coming from and LA should have stepped up and offered him 6M per. But why would Ariza choose Houston? Why not the Cavs or the Spurs?
I bet Dr House didn't even know who David Lee was 2 days ago.
lol, you know Ariza is regretting this already
he wanted 50 million.
I remember he posted on CL as gumbygld. He broke the Ariza trade before anyone else. People figured out it was Lee when he was talking about Bynum deserved max.
He did not get that. He is with the Rockets for 32.
How old is Bynum? Isn't his agent this same guy? That could be ugly the next time around...
So if he was going to settle for less, why choose the Rockets?
he wanted 50 mill from the Lakers
probably the most someone offered
More playing time
Are you this dense? He did not get that. So knowing he would not get that, which he didn't, why choose Houston for the money he could have gotten from the Spurs, Cavs, Lakers....
Take the Lakers out of the equation since he was not going to stay anyways, why choose Houston.
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