Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

[ZB9]

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The Hornets played hardball and got a better deal. Minny's unprotected 2012 #1. That in itself is better than the Laker deal. Also, Eric Gordon is an up and coming All Star. Kaman is what he is, which is good enough, and is off the books next season. That's better than Scola and stuff.

Simmons was wrong. The NBA isn't dead and the Stern's reputation is only enhanced by this deal.

[ex carrabba fan]

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Going back to the Blazers, I sort of discounted them. But people are right, they do have a pretty cool squad

R. Felton
Matthews
Crash
Aldridge
Camby

Crawford
Batum
Kurt Thomas

Should be a playoff team again. Would be cool to see Oden be able to play this year too.

[aholbert32]

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The Hornets played hardball and got a better deal. Minny's unprotected 2012 #1. That in itself is better than the Laker deal. Also, Eric Gordon is an up and coming All Star. Kaman is what he is, which is good enough, and is off the books next season. That's better than Scola and stuff.

Simmons was wrong. The NBA isn't dead and the Stern's reputation is only enhanced by this deal.

Yes it was the better deal but Stern didnt increase his rep. He screwed two of the bigger franchises over (Lakers and Rockets) and gave the league's most dysfunctional franchise the best PG in the league.

Also for everyone thinking that its automatic that the T-Wolves pick will be a top 3 pick....slow down. Talent wise there are a bunch of teams who could end up with worse records (Sac, Mil, Tor, Was, Utah, Det, GSW)

[ex carrabba fan]

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Yes it was the better deal but Stern didnt increase his rep. He screwed two of the bigger franchises over (Lakers and Rockets) and gave the league's most dysfunctional franchise the best PG in the league.

Also for everyone thinking that its automatic that the T-Wolves pick will be a top 3 pick....slow down. Talent wise there are a bunch of teams who could end up with worse records (Sac, Mil, Tor, Was, Utah, Det, GSW)

I agree with you on everyone but Utah and MIL. I think they'll have a decent year.

[goh]

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Shout out to Billy Crystal and Frankie Muniz, the biggest Clipper fans I "know"

You forgot Penny Marshall! Some Clipper fan you are!

[23]

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You forgot Penny Marshall! Some Clipper fan you are!

pfft...

Dont sleep on Clipper Darrell... he turned down a job with the Mavs for this day

[Drewski]

pfft...

Dont sleep on Clipper Darrell... he turned down a job with the Mavs for this day

Clipper Darrell had to be out spinning donuts in his clipmobile last night

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[ex carrabba fan]

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So Stephen A. Smith and Bucher predict Kobe to demand a trade.

at Buss and Mitch

You guys did a bang up job this summer. Shipped off Lamar Odom and brought in Josh McRoberts and Gerald Greene and Jason Kapono. Awesome moves guys.

[Drewski]

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I'm not prepared to bite into the notion that Kobe will demand a trade at any point. I can understand that he's pissed, but what does he stand to gain by leaving LA? It would be disappointing to see him retire and finish his career in anything but a Lakers jersey.

This whole off-season has been a disaster, as a Laker fan I've never felt more disheartened. I was ok going into this season with the same squad, but not sans LO and under these broken morale circumstances.

Can only hope that a little basketball on the court can remedy what's going on right now. I don't feel like this is Mitch, so much as I feel Jim Buss is just going crazy as the spoiled kid who's dad (the great Jerry Buss) handed him the keys to the Ferrari.

Yeah, can't do that Jerry. Looks like Jim may have wrecked it.

[ex carrabba fan]

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I have no doubt it was Jim Buss behind all the "OH SNAP, yeah let's try and get Howard AND CP3!!!111" Stupidest thing I had heard all summer I said it when the news first broke, and now I have a feeling of weird satisfaction [that homer Laker fans now have to live with this team] and grief [I too have to live with this team].

Not sure if Mitch was behind the trading Lamar away for nothing, but they should've let cooler heads prevail and talked to Lamar.

The season is definitely not lost so I hope Kobe gets over it. I don't 100% believe SAS and that Kobe will demand a trade, but there's smoke I'm sure to this story and maybe even a little bit of fire.

[Titans4lyfe]

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Yes it was the better deal but Stern didnt increase his rep. He screwed two of the bigger franchises over (Lakers and Rockets) and gave the league's most dysfunctional franchise the best PG in the league.

Also for everyone thinking that its automatic that the T-Wolves pick will be a top 3 pick....slow down. Talent wise there are a bunch of teams who could end up with worse records (Sac, Mil, Tor, Was, Utah, Det, GSW)

Another team I see that could potentially have a worst record than the T'Wolves is the Bobcats. I just think they are going to struggle this year. I don't think the T'Wolves will be a top 3 pick. I'm thinking more towards 6-8. Though they are young, they have a bunch of talent and a great head coach.

[jeremym480]

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So Stephen A. Smith and Bucher predict Kobe to demand a trade.

at Buss and Mitch

You guys did a bang up job this summer. Shipped off Lamar Odom and brought in Josh McRoberts and Gerald Greene and Jason Kapono. Awesome moves guys.

Kobe to Orlando or New Orleans. You heard it here first!

[Playmakers]

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Mavs have a party doing media day

http://www.dallasnews.com/video/mavericks/

I wonder if Jet put the beats together LOL!

[ex carrabba fan]

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Welp, according to SAS, it was all Jim Buss. Don't have any clue why you would get greedy at this point in time. They had the team to compete for a few more years. Instead they have a weaker team than when they were swept out last year.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/7357409/stephen-smith-lakers-mess-jim-buss-mess

Please understand that any hostility over the Lakers' latest moves and nonmoves need not be pointed in the direction of GM Mitch Kupchak. The man groomed by the great Jerry West is simply too smart to initiate some of the recent decisions.

It is Buss who's anxious to eradicate any semblance of the Phil Jackson era just to cement his own imprints. It is Buss who refused to trade Andrew Bynum so the Lakers could have Carmelo Anthony with Kobe and Pau Gasol right now.

It is also Buss who hired Mike Brown without consulting Kobe first, dismissing his star's desire to have former assistant coach Brian Shaw at the helm. And after all that, it was Buss who, according to league sources, turned around and infuriated league owners by attempting to manipulate things behind the scenes in an attempt to get Howard with Paul -- before trading Lamar Odom for nothing but a pick and an $8.9 million trade exception after Odom, upset over the initial deal with New Orleans, asked to be traded.

Buss did this, mind you, with no regard for his present crop of players, all with limited time left in their careers.

"Nobody can blame Buss and the Lakers for thinking about their future," one Eastern Conference executive told me. "We get it. But what you want to avoid doing is alienating the players you need now. You need Kobe now. You need Gasol now. And as badly as you need them, you have to know they need some help. The beating they took from Dallas in the playoffs last season should've told you that.

"So to lose out on Paul is bad enough. To give away Odom is even worse. But to do all those things and [you] still don't have Howard, you've actually diminished your roster and created drama all at the same time. That's just not good if you're the Lakers."

No, it is not.

[TheMatrix31]

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What's Los Angeles without some drama? After all, it's the sunny place for shady (and stupid) people.