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Nash makes the Lakers a better team. This should not be in doubt.
He's the best passer in the game, one of the best shooters, prefers to dish to players who can score, and plays admirable team defense despite his shortcomings in man-to-man.
I see Bynum having the time of his life playing the pick and roll with Nash.
Nash makes the Lakers a better team. This should not be in doubt.
He's the best passer in the game, one of the best shooters, prefers to dish to players who can score, and plays admirable team defense despite his shortcomings in man-to-man.
Great deal for the Suns.
LA, if it's a real possibility, should trade Bynum for Dwight. Dwight is a superior player, especially defensively and would go a long way to cleaning up the mess LA's backcourt will create defensively.
It seems you're forgetting about the player with the highest usage rate in the NBA
I think Pau will have more success than Bynum with Nash, but yes, overall it should definitely help (if healthy).
Even Kobe can't this up.
Still can't pass out of double teams though
Weren't they like bad defensively last season?
Mike Brown
Sam Amico: Kobe supposedly put full-court press on Nash to convince him to come. Fittingly, word is Suns interested in Ramon Sessions. 1 minute ago
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Remember LA was a couple of Kobe's epic choke jobs away from being 3-1 up on the Thunder last season.
He's managed to up Bynum and Pau the past two years, tbh.... he also ed up a team with Shaq, Payton, and Malone....
Great deal for the Lakers and Suns. Incredibly smart move by Lakers and unusual competence displayed by Phoenix. It's just painful for us fans of the Suns.
So the Suns look like this now:
Sessions/Marshall
Gordon/Childress
Dudley/?
Frye/?
Gortat/?
damn, that's a near lock for a top 5 pick
Spoken like a true Suns fan.
And he'll still be there to choke again this coming season...
I wont believe this trade is official until Chris Broussard hears it from his sources.
Is there a worse possible coach for a Nash/Kobe backcourt than Mike Brown?
I couldn't have said it better as I was thinking the same thing. I don't see Brown finding a way to utilize two players who are both great off-ball shooters and ball handlers.
+1 but this doesn't go along with the spurstalk narrative of "lolzzz anything the Lakers do!!!!!1111"
The fact is that this is a great deal for both teams. The lakers are in win NOW mode because they are old and are trying to piece a team together to make one last run. Nash obviously fills a couple huge holes in the team (pg, shooter) and will be a lot more useful then some late first round pick in a weak draft who probably wont pan out anyway. The Suns on the other hand are rebuilding and those picks will be gold. It works out for everyone.
D'Antoni would be an upgrade over Mike Brown tbh
Whats our avg team age now....34?
He's available.
This is also true.
You are talking like Nash,Kobe or Pau were young again.
Kobe will be 34,Gasol 32 , Nash 36.... Every day they are worse.
Meanwhile Durant,Westbrook,Harden,Ibaka.... they are better every year.
The difference between those 2 teams is going to increase every year.
Even LAC should be better than LAL next season
Son, I'm pretty sure he's going to be a Hornet come next season.
New Orleans Hornets won't be deterred by Eric Gordon's honeyed compliments of Phoenix
Published: Wednesday, July 04, 2012
By John DeShazier, The Times-PicayuneThe Times-Picayune
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Nothing that happened Tuesday night should, or will, dissuade the Hornets from locking up guard Eric Gordon, not even if he holds his breath and refuses to come out of his room if the Hornets don't grant him the freedom to join the Suns.
What, you were surprised that he had wonderful things to say about the Phoenix after signing a four-year, $58 million offer sheet late Tuesday? If so, you were being unrealistic in believing he wouldn't be complimentary - maybe even overly-complimentary - of the franchise that offered him the contract he wanted.
What matters now is that he's capable of being a professional once the Hornets match the offer sheet.
Now, if New Orleans general manager Dell Demps is convinced, by conversations with Gordon, that the shooting guard will be petulant and whiny and unwilling to give his best effort, then the Hornets will have a serious problem. If he can't give 100 percent and will spend his time in New Orleans mumbling under his breath, then this marriage can't work.
Because, by far, a healthy Gordon is New Orleans' best player. The franchise can't risk having his bad at ude poison the locker room and, especially, it can't have its rookies taking their lead from him if he's going to be a cancer.
But if Tuesday's agreement and bouquets are what they very likely could be - a player trying to say the right things about the franchise that is willing to fill his pockets - then rest assured that he'll say more, and better, during his news conference to announce his signing with the Hornets.
And fans will forgive and forget as soon as he makes a couple of game-winning plays.
Meanwhile, the best part of this is that Phoenix will have saved New Orleans some cash.
The Hornets could've gone as high as $79 million over five years to secure Davis' services, could've maxed him out at roughly $16 million a year and not allowed him to get to the market as a restricted free agent. Instead, for a year and $21 million less, they'll get the player they don't want to part with and they'll get to watch him help the franchise improve, from a lottery team to a playoff team perhaps in the second year of Gordon's deal.
So Hornets fans should tamp down the eruption of bruised feelings that spewed when Gordon said Phoenix is where his "heart is now." And when word came out that he wasn't all that enamored with leading a pair of rookies, No. 1 overall pick Anthony Davis and No. 10 pick Austin Rivers, in New Orleans.
The fact is, while he's in the moment - and staring at a $58 million contract - a player might say many honeyed words about the team that's willing to give him that $58 million. And he might not say all the right things about the franchise that soon will cast its lot with him, that believed in him and protected his reputation while he played a grand total of nine games (out of 66) last season.
As long as he says the right things later, and is able to be a pro about what will happen, the Hornets don't have a problem. No one will.
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