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Why Bynum??... They can trade Vujacic and Walton. They are the Lakers!!
By far the most interesting potential team here is the LA Lakers. An Andrew Bynum for Carmelo Anthony trade works straight up, as do a few different variants. For Denver, it likely represents the best return they can get on Carmelo- after all, think about whether Toronto would take that over two first round picks from Miami.
For the Lakers, they lose a young asset but at the worst become the clear-cut favorites for the 2011 le and keeping all but one rotation player beyond next season. The best case is that Melo re-signs and they have a core that easily rivals and likely outpaces Miami for at least a couple more years.
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Please.....We have rang 2x in a row now (something SA knows NOTHING about). Going on #3.
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Why Bynum??... They can trade Vujacic and Walton. They are the Lakers!!
No thanks.
Yea I really don't see Denver being that nice to Melo and the team they've been trying to beat the past few years.
In Denvers side, I woulden't do melo for Bynum... Bynum has proved he is just a injury prone non consistant center. They could get more from the Nets, im assuming.
Odom and Sasha and you got yourself a ing deal...
Denver isn't f**king stupid. Bynum has been injury prone and the Lakers would have to add Odom or another player to make it worthwhile for the Nuggets. Why would they also want to help make the Lakers stronger? Afterall the Lakers beat them in the WCF in 2009, they were close to the NBA finals. if they trade him it will probably be to an Eastern Conference team, I just can't see Denver wanting to help the Lakers out unless they got more in return.
id put odom and sasha with caracter and 2 future 1st rounders instead.
The Lakers will send the Nuggets the triple threat player in Lamar Odom. The dead eye shooter Sasha Vujacic who has proven he can't miss with those clutch free throws to ice the finals. And the smartest ball player in the league, Luke Walton for that headcase Carmelo Anthony.
Denver definitely wins that trade.
Only if Denver throws in Nene!
Only if Denver throws in Nene!
that will definitely even the trade ......
But I thought the Lakers never lost a playoff series with a healthy bynum???
o to Bynum's bright future
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For all of you young hoop lovers who dream of going big-time but currently have small-time game, look to Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum for inspiration. Granted, Bynum has always been extremely tall and extremely gifted (soft hands, hops), but he hasn't always been extremely successful.
Bynum was never the best player on his high school team, playing second-fiddle to someone named Sean Baptiste, who ended up at -- drum roll please!-- Fairleigh inson.
Word has it, Bynum wasn't even first-team all-Middlesex County (N.J.) Conference as a senior. And legend has it that UConn coach Jim Calhoun, who would've gotten Bynum if Phil Jackson hadn't, had to pull some thick, cable-like strings to get Bynum in the McDonald's All-America game.
Today?
Tim Legler and I were talking Tuesday night and we agreed that if we were starting a new franchise and could take any center in the world, Bynum would be second on our list behind only Dwight Howard.
Now that's improvement.
As Baron Davis told me after Bynum put 17 and 16 on the Warriors last month, "That boy's gonna be a beast.''
For the past several years, we've all lamented the demise of the center. Shaq has told us he's the Last Don, the last true big man to walk the earth (or the hardwood).
But we've been wrong.
The center position is back, or better yet, on its way back.
Three years from now, there will be no fewer than five top-flight centers in the Association. Here's the order I'd take them in the aforementioned scenario:
1) Howard
2) Bynum
3) Greg Oden
4) Amare Stoudemire
5) Yao Ming
And who knows, maybe Al Jefferson will begin winning one day. And Tyson Chandler keeps improving by the month, so he could be elite by then.
Then there'll be the solid second tier of Andrew Bogut, Chris Kaman and Emeka Okafor. I'm not sure where Al Horford will fit in yet, but he'll be solid, at worst.
That's not to mention any youngsters who are in college or high school right now.
Back in the '80s, how many top-flight centers were there?
1) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2) Moses Malone
3) Robert Parish
After those three, you start talking about a banged-up Bill Walton and then guys like Dan Issel, Artis Gilmore and Jack Sikma.
What about the '90s?
1) Hakeem Olajuwon
2) Patrick Ewing
3) Shaquille O'Neal
4) David Robinson
5) Alonzo Mourning (a notch below those four)
After that, you're looking at Dikembe Mutombo, Rik Smits and Vlade Divac. Too bad a back injury ruined Brad Daugherty's career or he'd be in that top five, ahead of Zo.
My point is that the center spot is about to be as strong as ever. In the modern era, there have never been more than a handful of great centers playing at any one time.
Soon, we'll have our handful. And in Bynum, opponents will have more than a handful. Much more.
Would Ron Artest stay "sane" if he gets moved to the bench behind Melo....probably not. lol...Sash and Odom! Mitch can make that happen.
Melo is a good player but I would not make that trade.
See him? He's not going to be around much longer. I say 3 years before he's just another shooting guard in the league. Still Kobe, but not the best player in the league. And imagine if he had Ron Artest and Carmelo Anthony to back him up for those three years?
See them? They have been the frontline when Andrew Bynum has taken long absences due to injury. The injury problem means that the Lakers might not want to become a Bynum-centric team.
See them? Wouldn't you like to tear the le out of their hands? Carmelo Anthony is one year older than Lebron James, 26. He could be the Lakers best player for 10 years to come. Bynum will be slowed by injury, even if he doesn't have another knee problem. Muscle, tendons, and bone age the more they are injured. Do you want to rebuild around the Penny Hardaway of centers and take 5-8 years off from contending because of it? The rest of the league might like that.
sons...take melo if that happens..melo taking over the 3rd, kobe taking over the 4th...and queen Le hiding.
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