Why would Cs do that, if out costs them Rondo?

god, that would be pretty reckless xp

because its their only shot at another ring

wow. I don’t like it, Rondo is too good to let go for a (great) rented player.

no he’s not

yeah the big three are so fucking old and will be gone soon anyway, whatre you gonna do rebuild around rondo

also pauls knees are nearing competition

and hey if you want to resign him next year youve got a good shot

UNBUTU!

i mean we are all members of the rondo fan club but you don’t want him to be even the third best player on yr team

DraftExpress Jonathan Givony

NBA source tell me the Lakers did not approach other teams with cap space or trade exceptions before making the deal sending Odom to Dallas.

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johnhollinger John Hollinger

Any exception created by dealing Odom isn’t big enough to take in Turkoglu. I’m not seeing LA’s endgame here, nor why Dallas would help.

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lol wut wait BALL

what is la getting back??

picks

Maybe Lamar just told LA to f—k off, and they felt they had to trade him?

Really a bizarre move, unless they can deal for Howard.

lol if the lakers dont get paul or howard kobes gonna mass murder the whole organization

why wouldnt the lakers wait and do the odom deal as part of a three way trade w/orlando if they can get howard, doesnt make sense

if you were going to trade odom for picks, Dallas is like the last team you’d go to. They own no picks other than their own and they haven’t had a bad season in around a decade.

we r in a weird zone right now

hey jho what do you make of this

“We’ll move Kevin,” Rivers said. “He will play the 5 this year. I honestly don’t think that it’ll be a problem. When he was younger it would have been a problem.”

“He’s older, bigger, stronger and can play both positions and can spread the floor from that position,” Rivers said. “He can play the whole game at center and it wouldn’t bother me at all.”

“I was fortunate enough to play in the big era [from 1983 to 1996]. Right now there’s not many of them,” he said of the dearth of big men. “Dwight (Howard) and (Andrew) Bynum are two that come to mind. I might be missing one or two.”

I thought the return for odom was dallas’ trade exception (so, money, not picks)

Man, after Odom and Bynum in the playoffs last season, Odom on the Mavs is going to be, uh, interesting.

wtf is even going ON

i recall people saying garnet didnt like playing center, tho he did a bunch in minny, but it is true there arent too many giant dudes to push him around left, idk

I don’t recall him playing much center at all in Minny. and I was a hardcore minny fan from 98–2002 or so.

really i could be misremembering

He played a bunch of center last year after all the injuries. Not starter’s minutes though, which is what I think he was always opposed to.

maybe it was after that tho, i think like that was part of his beef w/the organization, that he was playing too much center

lol he prob shouldnt be playing starters minutes at any position

They’ve signed Chris Wilcox to spell him so it should be fine.

the hornets have 6 players in camp.

chris wilcox, jeff green, david west—these guys all give off similar vibes

Stein is saying Clippers now in the lead for Chris Paul.

i would like the celtics to get paul, i support that

chris wilcox, jeff green, david west—these guys all give off similar vibes

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, December 11, 2011 12:49 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

i agree and im not sure what i think about this vibe

I’m amazed that they’ve managed to make things seem even fishier and more corrupt.

i hated jeff green last year, apparently he played good defense but mostly he looked like he did nothing particularly well on the basketball court

yeah he was terrible

perk5yunghawg kendrick perkins

@KDTrey5 i hope everybody know that im not just KD friend and teammate im his full time bodyguard lol but im so serious

3 minutes ago

perk i miss u

I missed him so much I followed Perk out to the mid-South. Only a little further away than I was from Boston.

Mike_Bresnahan Mike Bresnahan

Lakers will get the Mavs’ first-round pick in 2012, maybe a second-rounder as well.

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what a haul!

this is confusing

Pick 27 and 52! the sacrifices Cuban makes.

what in god’s name

PERK5YUNGHAWG

so the lakers are just trying to amass as many picks as possible in order to trade? also i wonder how this changes dwight’s desire to go to the nyets. how hilarious would it be if his secrete meeting w/ prok totally sold him on the nyets and now he has no interest in going to the lakers and so they end up with neither player? i’m sure this scenario is unlikely, but still fun to think about

ha so reading thru this thread over the last few days makes me realise that I know crap all about bball. Even so trading Odom for 2 not very good future draft picks seems insane. Odom wasn’t the laker who tried to decapitate barea in the play offs last year was he? Or was that Bynum?

that was bynum

Strange day in the NBA

The Mavericks get to choose any of the next 6 seasons to send the pick, and no matter what it will be top 20 protected.

hollinger

To make sense of an Odom trade with respect to a future Howard deal, about the best I can do is a four-for-two deal that sends Howard, Duhon and Turkoglu to L.A. for Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum, and puts Jameer Nelson into the exception created by Odom’s trade. In this scenario, getting Nelson to alleviate the point guard hole might ease some of the sting of the Lakers’ trading both star big men to land Howard and would give the Magic added cap relief.

The Magic aren’t trading away both of their point guards.

man u dont need any point guards when u have gasol and bynum just ask the lakers

what do u guys think of a howard/world peace/BALL/kobe/nelson line up

the magic will just use their t-shirt launchers to pass the ball to open forwards

xpost

lol

it seems like that line ups not quite getting the job done, but i wouldnt put anything past dwight tbh, hes capable of putting a team on his back

I_Am_Iman Iman Shumpert

Signed my paper!!! I’m OFFICIALLY a Knick!!! #IS21 and headed to practice! Today is a great day! Let’s get to work

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good for him

i mean, that’s another one where i’m like... okay, you’re absorbing the nucleus of a team that just lost to the hawks in the first round and adding a 33 year old kobe bryant. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

haha otm

looks like the Mavs first rounder in the Odom trade is “sometime in the next six years at Mavs discretion” and top 20 protected. Not much of a chip to sweeten any trade.

who the hell is iman shumpert

knicks first round pick from this year

i just like his name

he’s a guard who is a pretty good defender but can’t do jack on offense, so he’s actually a decent fit in NY

tylercowen tylercowen

Dwight plus Kobe not so different from Dwight plus Gil, esp. with lots of games crammed together, no other big guy or great shooter.

1 minute ago

cold

damn son

so like mario chalmers? xp

no, mario chalmers is way better than this guy on offense

i get the sense he’s way more like thabo seflaosha or something

lol @ guy w/ 7 PPG being better than this guy on offense

hollinger

What does Houston do?

First, hide the sharp objects in Daryl Morey’s office. After that, the Rockets have a few alternatives. For one, they can turn around and try to get Paul directly, using many of the same players they were angling to use to get Pau Gasol from New Orleans in the defunct three-way deal. Also, Houston is likely out of the running for Nene minus the cap space the three-way deal would have created, but the Rockets might decide to jump in on the Chauncey Billups amnesty bidding, allowing them to dangle Kyle Lowry and Goran Dragic as trade bait. The Rockets also might sign Marc Gasol to an offer sheet.

One thing is clear — the Rockets had been building assets to set up a trade exactly like this one, a home run that left them with a Gasol-Nene front line and a three- to four-year window to win a title. More than anybody, they got absolutely screwed by how this all went down.

lol oh no did the commissioner stop you from fleecing new orleans you poor thing, maybe you should talk to yr owner abt that whole the league owning a team concept

its funny how hollinger always over rates houston, like explain to me how gasol/nene dont get dunked on every play

its funny how hollinger always over rates houston, like explain to me how gasol/nene dont get dunked on every play

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, December 11, 2011 9:35 AM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

uh, nene is good defensively bro.

I don’t get how Nene and Pau are complimentary players. I get Nene and Dwight, but not those two.

nene is a pretty flashy shotblocker

nene/gasol would be one of the best defensive 4/5 combos in the league, actually.

they would just have issues against the monsters like Bogut.

and DHo of course.

fellas fellas fellas this is so hilarious to me that odom was so butthurt about a potential trade that the lakes had to throw him into the welcoming arms of mark cuban for a bag of donuts

uh, nene is good defensively bro.

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, December 11, 2011 10:36 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

no hes not

nene/gasol would be one of the best defensive 4/5 combos in the league, actually.

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, December 11, 2011 10:38 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink

youre insane

gotta say im not really feeling any money for jeff green, wondering when this david west thing is done, not really feeling a lot of kg at center, etc etc

like randomly signing chris wilcox though, he can play 8 min a game and not kill you

wish joel pryzbilla or something was out there to keep kg out of playing center

nene is a pretty flashy shotblocker

― dayo, Sunday, December 11, 2011 10:38 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

totally w/that monster .5 blocks per game average

or .9 rather

nene/gasol makes sense to me offensively... i mean, nene’s not really a back to the basket player is he?

he’s a solid defender man. Crafty with steals, strong, mobile.

nene so rarely looks to score that it’s hard to say, jord.

I would say he likes to isolate and face up mid-post.

man nene kinda sux, doesnt rebound, doesnt protect the rim, always injured, scores efficiently but has never averaged more than 15ppg

kinda pissed that the post-melo nuggets were only around for a half season, that team was exciting as fuck

nene made the most sense to me in that environment, where he could really run the break. dude was dropping atomic dunks on fools in that thunder series.

i mean, that’s another one where i’m like... okay, you’re absorbing the nucleus of a team that just lost to the hawks in the first round and adding a 33 year old kobe bryant. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

― v-shasty, Sunday, December 11, 2011 10:18 AM (25 minutes ago)

yeah why not just trade kobels to orlando, change disneyworld to disney land and basically you have the same thing

“protecting the rim” is the most overvalued defensive skill there is.

or .9 rather

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, December 11, 2011 10:43 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

lol I didn’t say he blocked a lot of shots—just that there are some good highlights of him blocking shots

like nene you wouldnt mind pairing w/big rim protecting shot blocker and gasol you wouldnt mine pairing w/a big rim protecting shot blocker, together ehhhh