Yahoo! Report: Brown to Re-Sign With Lakers

this is good news. however, i would have liked this to happen after we secure lamar odom. have the lakers even made an offer? they better not be planning on letting him walk like ariza…

adrian woj…lol..that reminds me, u once asked why i got banned from the cavs blog on sb nation. the reason being is that i posted a link on two of their threads to a story by adrian wojnorowski in which he ripped lebron james. that was a great piece he wrote. couldn’t be more true. it was a classic, i hope many of u guys read it.

instead of an ordinary 2 yr deal?

And are you certain the Lakers used the exception? Perhaps they simply decided to match another team’s biannual exception offer.

huh? the celts wanted s. brown? as did the knicks?

That sounds like real interest to me. We’re lucky to hang on to this kid, and he’s probably going to deserve a raise in a year or two.

i don’;t think his effort in that series is underrated. many a people here have said his play against billups was key.

Funny, Phil didn’t seem to play him on quicker point guards who just blew by Fish & Farmar, like Arron Brooks. Is he quick enough to check those type of PGs (or at least better than Farmar)?

It will be great for Brown to be under Fisher’s tutelage. I can really see Brown absorbing a lot of what Fisher has to teach, and can really see that being a big impact relationship.

Oh well. we are a better team now then we were last year. Even tougher.

I guess he learned from Trevor’s mistake, whatever the case may be I’m glad to see him back.

He sounds misled and uncertain about the negotiations side of it. He obviously wanted to stay in LA. How can he sound so clueless when his agent was opening his mouth with the media. He made it seem that he has no clue as to why the Lakers went with Artest when the day after he was offered the MLE and told to look for another offer his agent said the following:

Ariza already has firm offers from several other teams, according to Lee, and will begin speaking with opposing coaches today. Asked if he could envision Ariza accepting a deal from another team without speaking to the Lakers again, Lee said, “Yes, we have no choice. That’s the position they’ve put us in.”

I MISS TA

I have to say that Farmar seemed to be more focused when Javaris Critt. . .(however you spell it) was here. Maybe this will help Jordan concentrate on improving.

When Portland still has Bayless on their roster and is looking at getting Hinrich? Again, stop with the unrealistic scenarios. I agree that there’s a good chance Farmar will get moved this year, but there has to be an underlying current of reality here.

Isiah isn’t running Minnesota. We have practically no assets that we’re willing to let go that Minnesota would bend over to acquire.

agree.

Seriously though, this is also a very smart idea for Shannon Brown.

Let’s say, just to take a wild guess (I haven’t seen any numbers, so I’m making them up), that someone was willing to offer UPS something in the area of $20 million for 5 years. At $4 Million per, that’s almost double what he’s making now — and he’s got that guaranteed for several years. Seems like a great deal, especially for someone who has turned some heads, but is overall still fairly unproven.

But if you’re Shannon Brown, and you’re confident that you can deliver on the flashes of potential you’ve displayed, then I really like this move. Even financially. Why? Because he plays for a championship contender, and he gets the chance to really prove himself, develop, grow, become even better than he is now. Prove he can do this consistently, maybe even show himself to be starter material. All on a championship team, with TONS of exposure, and possibly winning a ring in the process.

And if he does that for a couple years, then in 2 short years he can re-negotiate, and he’ll have a lot more leverage than he has right now. So maybe he plays for $2.1 Mil a year now, but if he really proves himself to be solid in those 2 years, then he could potentially set himself up for a $6-7 M/year deal in the very near future.

Bottom line… Success in L.A. = Big Paycheck.

Go somewhere else, maybe you get better, but you’re not in L.A., so not as many people notice. You get your payday now… but if you stay in L.A., and up your game in the process, you get a chance to get an even bigger payday. And the length of the deal is perfect — just enough time to prove yourself worthy of a relatively lucrative contract, but short enough that you’re not sitting around playing for peanuts once you’ve already proven you’re worth more.

And not having really heard anything doesn’t exactly give us anything to quiet our fears.

But honestly, it’s just inconceivable in my mind that the Lakers would let him go. That, combined with the general consensus that no one out there is really offering him more than what the Lakers are reportedly offering him, and his expressed desire to retire a Laker, makes me feel pretty good about it.

Really don’t think it’ll be a problem.