Even if this happened to be true, I have faith in the Lakers front office, that they'd yet again swing ANOTHER deal, that would have fans pissing their pants, and haters upset. :applause:
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Even if this happened to be true, I have faith in the Lakers front office, that they'd yet again swing ANOTHER deal, that would have fans pissing their pants, and haters upset. :applause:
trade 1: ron artest, shannon brown for shane battier and courtney lee
trade 2: ron artest, laker's trade exception for tayshuan prince
trade 3: ron artest, steve blake for josh howard, kirk hinrich
get it done mitch
Ron Artest & 1st Round Pick
FOR
Rashard Lewis
Artest, Brown, and Blake for Nash + Pietrus.
Make it happen Mitch. :bowdown:
[QUOTE=kabalcage][url]http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=4oryh8n[/url]
Ron Artest / Luke Walton
to the Bobcats for Gerald Wallace
Why the Lakers do it: Crash is a rich man's Trevor Ariza; he can defend the LeBron James of the world.
Why the Bobcats do it: Luke Walton is a triple double threat on a reasonable contract. Ron Artest and Michael Jordan have mutual respect for one another, even after Ron cracked some of Michael's ribs during prep for his 2nd comeback.
Plus these guys are cheaper and when Stephen Jackson is inevitably gifted; this will be a dirt cheap team.[/QUOTE]
I hope this is a joke.
:roll: You think Jordan is just going to hand Crash or Jax over to the Lakers to help Kobe get another ring?
The Pacers are interested :pimp:
[QUOTE=oh the horror]Even if this happened to be true, I have faith in the Lakers front office, that they'd yet again swing ANOTHER deal, that would have fans pissing their pants, and haters upset. :applause:[/QUOTE]
thats why i WANT them to make a trade. I don't think they'd make a bad one, even given how hard it would be to trade Artests contract. Altho getting rid of Shannon Brown sux imo.
[QUOTE=Naruto-sama]thats why i WANT them to make a trade. I don't think they'd make a bad one, even given how hard it would be to trade Artests contract. Altho getting rid of Shannon Brown sux imo.[/QUOTE]
To be honest, I wouldnt be THAT sad to see Artest go. I remember when LA acquired Ron, several people were stating that some LA fans might not be TOO crazy about the move, and that Ron was a bonafide chucker, and yada yada...
Ron is a good defender, but the dude has dropped off dramatically over the last several years, and to be honest, the dude couldnt hit water if he threw it in the ocean.
Now he wasnt exactly brought on board to score baskets, but for christs sake, it would be NICE if he COULD hit open shots with some regularity. The guy does in fact, just flat out chuck bricks.
And to be honest, he moves awkwardly on the court, and his defense hasnt exactly been stallar lately.
The problem is...his contract will make it extremely difficult to move him, AND he is going to have to be packaged with someone else to probably make it work, and LA DOES need a realiable wing defender outside of Barnes, who isnt exactly fantastic either.
That said, Im not sure who they'd get, but LA's front office does make some pretty good moves, and I have faith, IF THIS IS ALL TRUE, that they'd make a deal that would benefit the Lakers, rather than hurt them.
Honestly im not so sure how true any of this is.
If the Lakers had kept Sasha they could have had at least been able to create a decent trade package.
Thats the way the cookie crumbles with hindsight.
Man, if only Isiah Thomas still ran the Knicks. You'd probably get Gallinari and Fields for Artest.
Who wants Ron Artest I wonder? They are going to have to toss someone else in the deal.
But I doubt they are going to trade anybody.
LOL no one wants artest anymore. hes burned bridges with kings, rockets, pacers, bulls and not to mention detroit. haha
This was already denied by ron himself via lakers twitter
[QUOTE=Irish]If the Lakers had kept Sasha they could have had at least been able to create a decent trade package.
Thats the way the cookie crumbles with hindsight.[/QUOTE]
They have a 5.5 Mil dollar exception from that trade
[QUOTE=Lakers13]They have a 5.5 Mil dollar exception from that trade[/QUOTE]
Yes but few teams will be willing to take Artest's contract by itself, adding the expirer of Vujacic may have sweetened the deal for the other team.