Brown 3 yrs/18 mil, done deal?

[ChrisRichards]

How could you possibly know Jim's direction. So you mean, he's just going to ride out Pau, Kobe and gang just to develop Drew? Come on man! All the bashing for a team that just won it 11 months ago. Give me a break

I think Mike Brown is going to do just fine.

Well I think my assumption is right. This just came out today.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/rumors/post ... nba-357722

"The Los Angeles Lakers appear to have a new coach all lined up in Mike Brown. And Jim Buss, the son of Lakers owner Jerry Buss and the man who conducted the coaching search, is saying to folks in the organization that there is a certain player that is untouchable in trade talks, according to Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski: Andrew Bynum(notes).

Meanwhile, Wojnarowski reports that the team hasn't set a budget for Brown to hire assistant coaches yet"


And Woj is a VERY reliable source for those skeptics.

[TheManFromAcme]

Well I think my assumption is right. This just came out today.

huh?

The piece talks about Drew not being trade bait thats all, not Jim trying to blow up the team and create a "new" team around him.

Chris, I am beginning to think "you want" that to happen. You want that to happen to the team you know your Heat will never surpass as far as accolades and exposure go. I get it. But don't fabricate or bias information for your personal gratification.

Lakers are fine. Kobe is not going to jeapordize anything or create a soap opera at Laker central regardless of what the press says.

[Banzai]

Jim Buss has a major hard on for Bynum.