Lakers: Kupchak informs Gasol's agent that he will be traded if he doesn"t grasp offense

[Clipper Nation]

so from your Roster who would you give up for Pau...remember Pau is an All-Star, Euro MVP, Olympian, and 2 Time NBA Champ...we'd be giving up a lot in letting him go..

so go ahead make a fair proposal - I'm listening djohn...I'm listening

You can have Odom back, and take Caron Butler too

[Paranoid Pop]

Lakers should trade with the Clips, Clips could use a better center than Demonkey, Lakers could use a beast back up PG like Bledsoe (or starting PG since Nash is a certified TOSB at this point), Odom and Demonkey as filler or something.

Bledsoe, Metta and D12 on the floor would be the best defensive unit in the league instantly.

[Paranoid Pop]

^ then sign Kenyon Martin at PF and get a competent coach, suffocating D, nobody would hack D12 anymore.

[Clipper Nation]

Bledsoe, Metta and D12 on the floor would be the best defensive unit in the league instantly.

Which is why the Clippers would never do that trade....

[DPG21920]

Which is why the Clippers would never do that trade....

Of course they would do Jordan/Bledsoe for Pau (not that it works salary-wise, but in theory).

[Clipper Nation]

Tbh, the only way Bledsoe gets traded anywhere is if CP3 says by the deadline in no uncertain terms that he will re-sign.....

[DPG21920]

Something that might be good for both teams:

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=bvdo7wn

[DPG21920]

Tbh, the only way Bledsoe gets traded anywhere is if CP3 says by the deadline in no uncertain terms that he will re-sign.....

It's still worth it because it would make them legit favorites to get to the finals.

[Brazil]

Something that might be good for both teams:

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=bvdo7wn

well it would let Denver with Quincy Miller and Corey Brewer at SF

[Baseline]

feel sorry for Gasol. He is gifted to the Lakers and they immediately go to 3 championships. Without that move Kobe will go down unarguably as the most overrated player of the past decade, instead the Gasol trade reinflated the myth yet Pau receives very little credit. Plus didn't Kobe snitch (per par) him out to his fiance? Gasol needs to get out while he can.

I can't wait to read the books written by ex-teammates of Bryant's once this shot-jacking fool retires. The guy is a destructionist in every sense the word.

Howard is a colossal idiot if he stays.

[FYM]

Can someone ask Kori Ellis if she likes this song... ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIOntfVPBsw

you should create a thread

[djohn2oo8]

CROFLMAO

The annual Pau Gasol trade rumor fest has taken a very interesting turn this season. According to a report by Comcast's Ric Bucher, when the Los Angeles Lakers signed Steve Nash this summer, they promised him that they would not trade Pau Gasol. From his Sulia post:

Source: Ignore any and all trade talk about Pau Gasol because the Lakers landed Steve Nash by promising him he would get to play with Gasol. Nash made it a prerequisite for passing on offers from Toronto and the Knicks that Pau would be around, the source said.


Such prerequisites from an incoming star aren't that unusual -- Chris Paul made similar personnel demands as part of his agreement to be dealt to the Clippers. (In Paul's case, he wanted assurance that LAC would do whatever was necessary to retain restricted FA DeAndre Jordan.)


Conceivably, once Nash gets back and actually plays with Gasol, the Lakers could continue to struggle and Nash re-thinks his position. But as of right now, one of the enticements that brought Nash to LA was the big Spaniard and the organization would have much bigger problems than they already have if they backtracked on their promise to keep Gasol in the fold.