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Oops. Nevermind.
Couldn't he be held in breach of contract if he didn't report?
So now that Peja's probably sore, do the Kings go ahead and hold onto his expiring contract or deal him? Say, for a Slovenian or two...
Oops. Nevermind.
Couldn't he be held in breach of contract if he didn't report?
artest is the biggest ing idiot in the whole entire world. he said he didnt want to play for the kings. what a sorry sack of . everybody in the nba should put their foot in his ass all at the same time. what a selfish prick.
by the way, the trade is off. it's breaking on espn.com
I don't think Artest gives a about his contract.
I say good for Artest.. If he doesn't want to move to Sacramento then good for him.
Professional sports teams think they can just send players without their say so....
Good for him.
Last edited by SequSpur; 01-24-2006 at 07:47 PM.
Artest what? Nothing but trouble.. no rings.. no ing nothing.. he is not better then Peja..
You don't need a player what won't do what he's ing told to do.
That's bull .... for the millions ing bull .
What color is the sky in your very short world?Professional sports teams think they can just send players without their say so....
Technically, the sky is not blue in my book.What color is the sky in your very short world?
Most annoying website ever, effin this effin that, say for s sake.
I'm sure it's a banned word on that forum but reading effin over and over is irritating as ...
Artest is done playing basketball I hope.
WTF?
Great. Laker Fan has hope again.
I hate to say it and I really don't want Artest on the Lakers, but he really would help the team a lot ....
I hope he does goto the Lakers. I'd love to see an Artest/Bryant fight, it'd be a good one. Although KB would own the kid.
Artest would kick the living crap out of Kobe.
Yeah I agree, thats so ed up. Who do they think they are? Those contracts don't mean !I don't think Artest gives a about his contract.
I say good for Artest.. If he doesn't want to move to Sacramento then good for him.
Professional sports teams think they can just send players without their say so....
Good for him.
It may be back on in this nutty NBA world - see new story at espn.com!
Artest has a meeting with pacers tommorrow morn to see if the deal can still work...
Pacers want to talk to Artest; Stojakovic 'disrespected'
By Chris Sheridan
ESPN Insider
Ron Artest has been summoned to a Wednesday morning meeting by the Indiana Pacers, who want to hear from the player himself on whether he is standing in the way of a trade to the Sacramento Kings for Peja Stojakovic, ESPN.com learned Tuesday night.
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Artest and his agent were expected to meet Wednesday morning in Indianapolis with team executives Larry Bird and Donnie Walsh with the hopes the trade can be revived.
The Pacers and Kings were close to a deal Tuesday, and Stojakovic stayed at the team hotel in Philadelphia when it appeared the trade would be finalized. But a source with inner knowledge of the day's events said a call from Artest's agent, Mark Stevens, to the Kings gave them second thoughts about pulling the trigger, and the deal was temporarily shelved.
"The way I was treated today, I was disappointed," Stojakovic told ESPN.com in Philadelphia. "I feel kind of disrespected with the way I found out. Thank God they have TVs here. I understand being traded, but this is situation is weird. I had already planned my flight back to Sacramento, and now everything is reversed.
"I guess this is just a business, but the way I was told and the way I found out, I feel I deserved better from [Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof]. Anybody can get traded in the NBA, but the way I found out, it was disrespectful. I deserve better after seven and a half years."
Stojakovic was expected to travel to New York with the Kings for their game Wednesday night against the Knicks, but there remained a possibility the trade would be revived in the morning. Artest told The Indianapolis Star there was a possibility something still could happen.
"There's no deal," Artest told the newspaper by telephone. "It's not that I don't want to play there ... I'm letting my agent handle things. He's taken over things." Artest told the Star he is not against a trade but would like to be involved in negotiations.
"I just want to meet with team officials of whichever team I'm headed to," he said in a story posted on the newspaper's Web site. "I want to play, but I'm following the rules I have to follow. If I have to sit out, I sit out the season."
The deal would have ended a lengthy standoff between the Pacers and Artest, who was banished from the team in December after requesting a trade and was suspended most of last season for his role in one of the worst brawls in U.S. sports history.
Before the deal apparently broke down, Kings players were already talking about the trade as if it was a done deal.
"Peja will be missed," Kings forward Corliss Williamson said. "He's been in Sacramento for a lot of years, but life goes on in the NBA.
"We'll welcome Ron Artest with open arms and hope he'll be able to help us. You always hear about the situations he's been in and all the hype. Maybe this is the change he needs, to come into our system and flourish."
Artest was a key component to a team that was expected to challenge for the Eastern Conference crown. He led the league in steals and was the Pacers' second-leading scorer at 19.4 points a game before being deactivated after publicly requesting a trade in early December.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Sacramento Kings could've used either Ron Artest or Peja Stojakovic against Allen Iverson and the Philadelphia 76ers.
Iverson scored 41 points and Chris Webber had 17 points and 13 rebounds, leading Philadelphia to a 109-103 victory over undermanned Sacramento on Tuesday night.
The Kings were without Stojakovic because he stayed back at the hotel after the team reportedly agreed to send him to Indiana for Artest earlier in the day. However, the trade fell through, though Artest left open the possibility that something could still happen. The volatile forward was deactivated by the Pacers in December after requesting a trade.
"I had no control over any of it," Kings coach Rick Adelman said. "I didn't have Peja. I told them to play with the hand you're dealt."
Mike Bibby had a career-high 44 points and Kevin Martin added 20 as the Kings lost their third straight game. Sacramento has won at least 55 games in four straight seasons, but is last in the Pacific Division.
"As far as distractions go, not having Peja was the biggest thing," Bibby said. "We still don't know what's going on."
The Kings visit the New York Knicks on Wednesday, but Adelman wasn't sure about Stojakovic's status.
"I have a lot of faith in Peja," Adelman said. "He's meant a lot to me and this franchise. He's been a pro his whole career."
The Sixers have won three in a row, improving to 21-20 at the halfway point of the season. Philadelphia, which came in allowing the third-most points in the NBA, reverted back to its usual form on defense after consecutive solid efforts.
The Sixers held Memphis and Minnesota to under 90 points each, but allowed the Kings to shoot 47.6 percent.
"We've gotten a little bit better on the defensive end," coach Maurice Cheeks said. "Tonight wasn't one of our best defensive efforts, but if we're going to making a move, we'll have to do it on the defensive end."
Playing in front of his father, Sixers assistant coach Henry Bibby, Mike Bibby put on a shooting clinic in the second half. He made six straight shots in one stretch and was 12-of-14 after going 5-of-11 in the first half.
Sacramento trailed by 10 early in the fourth, but got within 93-90 on a 3-pointer by Bibby. After a jumper by Webber, Bibby hit another 3 to make it 95-93.
With Sacramento trailing 99-97, Andre Iguodala knocked the ball out of Bibby's hands, off his leg and out of bounds. Iguodala then hit a 3-pointer to give the Sixers a 102-97 lead with 1:58 left. Webber made two free throws in the final minute to seal the win over his former team.
"I feel good about how we're trying to get better defensively," Iverson said. "We're nowhere near where we want to be, but I like the effort."
At one point in the second quarter, the Sixers went 6:29 without a basket while missing nine straight shots. But their 9-point lead only shrunk to 39-34 during that stretch.
The Kings cut it to 44-43, but Philadelphia scored the next six points to take a 50-43 halftime lead.
Sacramento center Brad Miller, averaging 14.8 points and 8.1 rebounds, missed all eight of his shots and finished with two points and one rebound in 32 minutes.
Notes: Sixers reserve forward Lee Nailon wasn't in uniform because he was arrested Tuesday after a domestic dispute, according to the team. ... Bibby's previous career-high was 42 against Orlando on Jan. 15. ... The Kings are in the middle of a season-high six-game road trip. ... The Sixers won both meetings to sweep the season series after being swept the previous four years. ... All-Star shortstop Jimmy Rollins won a free-throw shooting contest among five Phillies players after the third quarter.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html
I wonderwhat former King Chris Webber thinking about the issue while playing vs the Kings? He almost had the same fate last yr.
meanwhile, this Brad Miller missing, all of his shots last night? was it bec of Artest(his former Pacer teammate), coming to Sacramento? I don't really know [B]if these two -Brad And Ron are buddies or what.
what a mess.
Good for both teams short term. Feel horrible for the Kings long term.
yeah, check out kingstalk for a good laugh.
Artest would kick the living crap out of Kobe.
Have now both players become even cheaper on the trade market?
Ron Ron was already a "bargain" in terms of talent - Now how little would a team be willing to give up to "get" him?
AND
Now Peja is useless as a King, having been severly disrespected.
Somebody's getting a head case, and somebody's getting a shooter w/in two weeks.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2006, 3:19 PM ET
Pacers talk to Artest; Stojakovic 'disrespected'
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2304942
Ron Artest met Wednesday with Indiana Pacers officials to discuss a possible trade to the Sacramento Kings for Peja Stojakovic.
"They said they were going to try to get something sorted out to get the trade done," Artest told the Indianapolis Star by phone as he drove away from the meeting at Canseco Fieldhouse. Artest told the Star it was a good meeting, but that there was "no trade right now."
Artest also denied he wouldn't go to the Kings.
"I'll go anywhere," Artest told the Star. "I just want to get back on the basketball court and start playing again."
ESPN's Jim Gray reported Wednesday after the meeting that Artest has agreed to be traded, but that Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof now want to talk to Artest before finalizing any trade.
On Tuesday, his agent was more guarded about the prospect of Artest playing in Sacramento.
"In the last month, Ron Artest has been vehemently portrayed in an unflattering manner in the media, specifically in the aftermath of requesting a trade, even after it was made clear that he only spoke out because he believed the Pacers were going to trade him to Sacramento, a place he did not want to go to," Mark Stevens said in a statement to ESPN's Stephen A. Smith on Tuesday night. "Now it has become evident that this trade was not merely speculation but something that has been at least discussed for quite some time.
"Ron Artest did not want to be traded to Sacramento weeks ago, and he does not want to be traded to Sacramento now.
"Basketball is Ron Artest's passion. In order for Ron to fully demonstrate his natural skills and abilities, to the best of his abilities, he not only must be in an environment that is conducive to his growth an development as a player, he must also ensure that his family is happy and content as well. Ron does not believe that will be the case if he were in Sacramento. Period. However, as mentioned earlier, Ron is deeply committed to the sport of basketball and desperately misses playing the game he loves. If the trade is made he will play for his new team, regardless of how he may feel about it."
Stevens told ESPN's Greg Anthony that he thought Artest needed a stable situation with strong leadership, and that the uncertainty about both Kings coach Rick Adelman's future and the Kings' future in Sacramento indicated a lack of stability that would be uncomfortable for Artest.
Likewise, National Basketball Players Association executive director Billy Hunter told Anthony that Artest had not refused to report to Sacramento, although he had told Hunter of his reservations about the potential trade. Hunter expressed concern about reports that the Pacers might attempt to suspend Artest for playing a role in the Kings' rejection of the trade. Hunter told Anthony that Artest was not culpable for the possible dissolution of the deal because he had expressed that he would accept the trade.
The Pacers and Kings were close to a deal Tuesday, and Stojakovic stayed at the team hotel in Philadelphia when it appeared the trade would be finalized. But a source with inner knowledge of the day's events told Sheridan a call from Stevens to the Kings gave them second thoughts about pulling the trigger, and the deal was temporarily shelved.
"The way I was treated today, I was disappointed," Stojakovic told ESPN.com in Philadelphia. "I feel kind of disrespected with the way I found out. Thank God they have TVs here. I understand being traded, but this situation is weird. I had already planned my flight back to Sacramento, and now everything is reversed.
"I guess this is just a business, but the way I was told and the way I found out, I feel I deserved better from [Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof]. Anybody can get traded in the NBA, but the way I found out, it was disrespectful. I deserve better after seven and a half years."
Stojakovic rode the team bus on the two-hour trip to New York after arriving by limo at the Wachovia Center during the second half of Sacramento's 109-103 loss to Philadelphia. He attended the team meeting on Wednesday morning as the Kings prepared to face the New York Knicks.
A source told Sheridan that the efforts to rekindle the deal were ongoing Wednesday and extended all the way to the ownership level on both teams.
Artest was a key component to a team that was expected to challenge for the Eastern Conference crown. He led the league in steals and was the Pacers' second-leading scorer at 19.4 points a game before being deactivated after publicly requesting a trade in early December.
Stojakovic has been having an unproductive, injury-hampered season for the last-place Kings, whose loss Tuesday was their third in a row. Stojakovic's scoring average is down almost eight points from his All-Star level of two years ago, and the Kings are at risk of losing him with nothing in return when he becomes an unrestricted free agent this summer.
Indiana has been holding out for more than six weeks for an offer that it deems acceptable. A proposed swap for Corey Maggette fell through because of the Pacers' concerns over Maggette's foot injury, and talks with several other Western Conference teams failed to produce a deal that pleased all parties.
If the Artest trade ultimately falls apart, the Kings will be facing an uncomfortable dynamic with Stojakovic, who has never been traded in his NBA career. During his 10-minute interview with ESPN.com, he seemed bewildered and embittered by the day's events. The two-hour bus ride to Manhattan promised to be an uncomfortable one for Stojakovic and his Kings teammates, who, two hours earlier, thought they wouldn't see him again until the next time they faced the Pacers.
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