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Yeah, but he's setting the stage to opt out of his contract in a couple years, not to demand a trade, imho....
Love has been ing for a bit, now. And for a guy like him to , there must be something wrong. I'd put money that he's already mentioned possibly wanting out.
Yeah, but he's setting the stage to opt out of his contract in a couple years, not to demand a trade, imho....
I just checked the ESPN trade machine and this trade checks out..it's legit...
Lakers get: Calderon and Klieza
Raptors get: Chris Duhon, Steve Blake, Earl Clark, and Robert Sacre, Ron Artest
Lakers new line-up is:
Kobe
Nash / Calderon
Pau
Dwight
Klieza
Do It Mitch
So basically Laker fan is blaming everything on the PG who rarely touches the ball.
Got it.
"Waiter, my food tastes bad, I think the fish has gone bad"
Waiter: "Sir, I'll take this and be right back...... here you go, we replaced the asparagus"
"Waiter, it still tastes bad, I think the fish is spoiled"
Waiter: "So sorry, let me take this and get you something good.... here you go sir, we replaced the bread"
"Waiter, the fish still tastes like it's spoiled"
Waiter: "Ok then we can trade the bread and the asparagus for some mixed veggies and a potato, would that be better?"
1st - thanks for recognizing me as a Laker fan...finally...
2nd - We need a play-maker that's going to give it to Westbrook and Tony Parker's asses...Calderon can do that along with Delonte...with those two guys we will up your world....
3rd - We gots to get rid of Artest's ass...that running around shooting shots off the dribble like he Larry Bird or some ...dribbling the ball up running wild like a fuking headless chicken...it's sickening to watch...
4th - Maybe we keep Pau if we can find a way to over Toronto...and if not then we still have him to trade straight to ATL for Josh..
so now it will be:
Kobe / Delonte / Meeks
Dwight
Josh Smith
Calderon / Nash
Kleiza
I wasn't talking about you, but Laker fan in general. All of them are posers, just like you Extra Stout.
You were snorkeling in Howards semen just a few months ago. What happened?
The craptors should just call it and contract.....no reason for the NBA to have a team in Canada...that team is doomed to fail forever because no one wants to play there...
That just makes too much sense! I was actually thinking the other week when Spurs were playing the Raps, what a drag it must be for those guys to make ANY away game, just about everything is super-far except for chicago, milwaukee, and new england states.
Well if they had a better team, they would attract better players
The problem is the ty management
this would be one of the worst defensive teams of all time...
Obviously we are all overreacting at the Lakers record(although it should be well over .500 anyway) because they havent been able to all play together yet, but the Lakers biggest problem is, despite having so much talent, all their players except maybe Dwight are all good players because they can score. Kobe - scorer, Gasol - scorer, Nash - scorer/passer, Jamison - scorer, Meeks - scorer, MWP - shoots alot(not his fault). They don't have a good combination of guys with certain roles, and a team with Nash/Gasol/Howard/Kobe needs to be complemented with youth, pure shooters, and defensive players. Getting these kind of players these days are hard though, especially when you don't have that much flexibility like the situation the Lakers are in.
When you have so many guys that want to score or have the ball in their hands in the game at once, it makes certain players value on the court smaller. Pau Gasol is still a pretty solid 20/10 guy in this league, and if he's the 2nd option you will be getting lots of value from him and his $19million contract despite his defensive inefficiency's because you can put more defensive/3point shooters in the game.
I live in Toronto, and I can safely say this is the most re ed sports city in all of north america probably. The leafs are ing GARBAGE and have been for years, yet they sell out pretty much every game and have ridiculous revenue... while the raptors aren't quite as popular, they're still similar, with regular season games going for 300+ and people still buy that despite the awful ing team. IDK what it is here, but people are really "supportive" of their sports teams.
And toronto has MLS with toronto fc, MLB with the jays, NBA with the raps, NHL with the leafs and CFL with the argos (although tbh CFL is fake league lol ironically it's the only team the performs well)
how could they possibly take on another $10 mil in contracts? He's expiring too, gonna get paid next year. There's no way the Lakers can swing that. They'd have to dump Metta, or give up Hill to the Raptors.
Aren't they all managed by the same company?
MLSE (owned by Rogers-Bell partnership) own the Raptors, Maple Leafs, Marlies (minor league hockey) and Toronto FC (soccer). When the 2 biggest telecom compete ors join forces to buy teams, it just tells you the level of compe ion in this country.
The Blue Jays are owned by Rogers.
Ah, yes. No wonder they allow those franchises to wallow in mediocrity.
^ From where we stand today...we have no where to go but up....I'm beginning to think Gasol may not be the problem after all...I think Ron Artest is...it seems he's just out there playing like he's in a ing wild wild west old cantina style shoot-out...He's jacking the ball up whenever he feels like it and from where ever...every time he dribbles it pretty much leads to a turn-over fast break 2 points on the other end...he's literally getting torched on a nightly basis by whomever he's guarding...he's not providing Dwight any help defensively..abd what's sad is that he feels he's really contributing something solid...Kobe likes him and he will literally fight for Kobe...so I guess he'll stay but we need to move him to the bench if we cannot trade him...I'd trade him straight up for Linis Klieza tbh...
Pau has issues but I'm willing to see how this plays out at least until end of Jan. Man what I'd give to get Ariza back right about now...but I won't cry too much about it..Artest did give us:
Kobe 5
TOSB 4
Dun feed munchin cuck, foo hungry staring at them sausage fingers he got.
Calderon n Nash just add more defensive problems, we get him just for expiring if anytin.
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