u should’ve kept him from playing, he’s more important to our championship aspirations than to spain’s.

From Friday’s O C Register: Kobe Bryant helps open Irvine children’s museum

They had nice ones. I don’t know why they changed them. They change their jerseys like Pitino’s Kentucky teams. The unis they have now are nice, but the font has to go. It’s generic, and it will be even more generic this season because Charlotte copied them.

I never like the old GS jerseys either, nor the current ones.

Cleveland’s feather jersey is hideous. They were better than the light blue lightning bolts they had in the 90’s though. Not crazy about the new ones either.

I think the Rockets should re-do their jerseys. They look to awkard. I don’t t like the new one, but the old ones (80’s and 90’s) were dated and the Barkley years / early Yao years were terrible.. They should find way to incorporate their old “Houston” with the new logo, and include yellow again.

Detroit just needs a better logo.

I like the Mavs green alternate jerseys.

The Jazz unis are generic for their name. They need to change their name. Jazz and mountains have nothing to do with each other.

The Bucks should have an updated version of their 80’s unis.

Sacramento has nice jerseys, they just need t lose the simple looking font. It looks like a high school kid was bored in class and drew that. It should be regal.

The Suns are wearing WNBA uniforms.

Indiana’s generic, but okay. They need an original font.

I can’t say anything about Philly yet, until I see the updated ones.

Minnesota’s are too busy and awkward under the arms.

I think the Wizards are a stupid name and stupid logo.

Atlanta should just change their colors back to red, yellow and black.

OKC is just waiting to slam the customers in a couple of years and make even more money in merchandise.

Miami (although the bit the Lakers twice now), Toronto, New Orleans, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Chicago, Portland, and the Lakers are all fine.

that article is just another example of kelly dwyer’s celtic bias, they have nice jerseys but not number one. Definately not better than the purple and gold haha

I think it was a consequence of his draft position more than anything else; I don’t believe playing for Minnesota was that big of a turnoff as far as Rubio was concerned. Money talks though, and the inadequacy of a fifth pick’s salary was the problem. The situation would have been largely the same if Washington had kept their pick and tried to draft Rubio. This also might force Rubio to stay longer in Spain, as he won’t be bound by the rookie salary scale if he comes back in 2012. In both 2011 and 2012, he has a one million euro buyout, and it’s going to be hell of a lot more palatable to eat that on a $6-7 million salary than a $3.5 million salary.

As far as Kahn is concerned, I don’t begrudge him for drafting Rubio — it was a no-brainer with two consecutive lottery picks. Even if Rubio doesn’t come over, Minnesota is going to perennially hold his rights and wasn’t going anywhere this year. The only sticking point I have is that Curry was more of the scoring punch that Minnesota needed from the backcourt, and Curry could potentially play the off-guard. I think Flynn will be solid, but Curry has the chance to be special.

You haven’t thought about this for more than a second.

Any team was going to have a tough time bringing Rubio immediately; he had a huge buyout amount (the largest in European history) and the CBA prevented teams kicking in more than $500,000 toward it. The teams above #5 in the draft had slightly larger salary slots, but they passed on him due to the buyout situation.

Immediately after the draft Kahn said simply that the Wolves, of all teams, were in a position to wait. That’s how Rubio fell as far as he did.

So what, then, was Kahn meant to do? He couldn’t re-do the earlier draft to pick Rubio higher and afford more salary under the rookie scale. Dealing Rubio to a bigger market for more endorsements made no sense; in any case Kahn lined up enough money in negotiations that the endorsement thing turned out to be a red herring. Passing on the kid twice at #5 and #6 wouldn’t have made the teams below that able to handle the buyout any better.

What is it you think he should have done?

but I don’t think he’ll be the Lakers’ future starting PG.

His court vision is still really limited. He doesn’t see the pass that will lead to the pass that scores the bucket. He chucks too much. He can’t defend. Needs to bulk up some more … granted he’s still young and is very confident of himself … I just don’t see him as a starting PG.

Hopefully though, he’ll improve this season. But I’m crossing my fingers for Shannon. I like his game much more than Jordie’s. Even though Shannon wasn’t familiar with the offense, he seemed to know his role much better than Sasha or Jordie. Then again, Jordie did start well that one game against the Rockets when D-Fish was suspended. And overall, he had a good series against Houston.

I’ll give him half a season this year before I completely write him off as our future starting PG.

Farmer need to work and if he shows up this season then I’ll consider him over Shannon but if he doesn’t then he can forget starting for anyone. So the spotlight is on Farmer, we do need him to have an impact this season.

…. um excuse me….

Number 2?

did you watch game 4 of the finals this year? or not to mention any other big playoff games where fisher got the ball? The guy is money when it counts.

If i were to have any none star pg take a shot when it matters, it would be derek fisher. That guy has come up in the clutch so often its not even funny. He ranks number 3 all time in 3ptm in the finals.

Originally I placed a Fan Post of him being envited to try out and the majority of people in here chewed my head off for even suggesting that he was going to be a Laker. I hope this guy makes the team. My favorite part of the above article is the following:

The life-long Celtics fan is optimistic that he will be able to put childhood allegiances aside and use hustle, ability to defend both the post and the perimeter, awareness and timing to lock down a spot with the Lakers, his new favorite team.

“The second I got the call from (the Lakers), the day after the draft, I immediately turned into a die-hard Lakers fan,” Gaffney said. “I put the Boston Celtics behind me and now I’m ready to beat the Boston Celtics with everything I’ve got. As of right now I’m a Laker and I love wearing purple and gold.”

1 more player can’t hurt, he ain’t gonna get much money either but it would be nice to see if he could be a extra bench piece of consistancy that the Lakers need. So I hope they give him a chance, I’m pulling for him. Good post intuitive.

Gaffney was a pretty solid all-around defender on the college level, and per the article, if he can hit a 15-20 footer with consistency, that makes him immediately useful. The difference between the two is that Powell is significantly stronger and bigger, and can handle some minutes at the five in the pinch whereas Gaffney is undersized for the four at 6’8’’ and a thin frame, but I’d imagine that he’d be a better P&R defender because he can move his feet extremely well and has great awareness of his defensive role.

In the end, if the coaching staff likes Gaffney better during training camp, they’ll offer him a contract and waive Powell, who is making $959,111 next year, meaning it be a negligible salary hit for the Lakers to waive him. Given Powell’s knowledge of the system and his decent minutes last year, it will take quite the effort by Gaffney to get a spot over him.

His drunken behavior was the most significant trigger of all the events.

Guess who ranked 1st in 07-08? The man himself Kobe Bryant with a whopping 15! Just thought that was interesting.

Sheed will always have that 2004 trophy as a trump card. Artest doesn’t have that luxury.

Ron will do all the Laker reporting from now on.