and i thought cp3 was the one and only(besides leboob) that was with LRMR?if it’s not true then damn, i feel kinda bad for him. he seems like such a cool guy. i mean he seems so…un-lebron like.

Something I was considering (although not the Heat-Lakers/Lakers-Celtics spin). The Lakers played awesome defense last season, and have added another front court defender and some old guy that swats/gets dunked on.

I’m very interested to see how Miami’s offense runs during the season. With Wayde and Lebron running the floor it could be very exciting. Then again, ask Phoenix how well high-scoring offenses with low defense do in the playoffs.

Remember! Running back to swat a guard’s dunk does not = great defense.

except for last season, the Lakers had the best offense (or one of…not just statistically. I felt it was better than the Suns or whomever due to diversity and post players) and could easily return to form after a year of experience with Ron and Andrew starting. The question is will the HEat be able to play the defense the Lakers or Celtics can?

 Teams will be super motivated to beat them it’ll be sad, lmao. “It’s gonna be easy”-LeBron James.
I bet teams will have that quote up in the locker rooms. Can’t wait!!!

But he has been in the league so Caracter will put that aside since he has matured greatly. Caracter will be a force in the NBA. Not an All-Star but a great role player like Big Baby. Hopefully Jackson doesn’t throw this opportunity away. He is a great coach but I don’t like his tendency to overlook rookies even if they are talented. A big example is by how he starts Fisher and favors him, If I were a coach it’s all about preformance, If you are sucking I will pull you out of the game for a long time.
This is a big glaring hole in the regular season. In the playoffs Fish is another beast as I have noticed and sucking doesn’t apply in the playoffs, Finals for him. But Phil should limit him greatly in the reg. season, and by that I mean make him come off the bench or just let him play 20-25 min a game.

I say they give everyone in the East huge problems. They just might be a Top 2-3 seed this season. I think Rose is ready to make The Leap, Noah will be KG-lite under Thibs, Boozer provides them with post scoring and rebounding (plus no Lakers!), and they got a decent defender and cutter in Brewer. T-Mac should be able to fit in and keep defense honest. He’s lost a lot, but what he can still do will help Bulls. Deng needs to show up though.

a pipe-dream. But the same could be said of so many other players that laker fans wished for. Just like CP3. A man can dream right? Either way, its good for entertaining discussion during the off season.

if he plays well enough to give them a solid option as starting SG.

Personally I’d love to see McGrady go to Miami and increase their chances of ego-based dysfunction.

The only way another team can get him is if the Lakers don’t offer him a contract at all or if they do and they cut him during training camp.

Or if some overseas team offers him more than the minimum the Lakers are offering, he can go there right now, but the Lakers would still hold his NBA rights if he ever wanted to come back.

But if we don’t sign them by the time training camp starts they are free to go to another team, unless there is a specific rookie signing deadline.We can also sign them and send them to the D-league so they get playing time and a chance to enhance their skills.
A special case would be this: if Caracter/agent says: I want to go to the Nuggets, I’ve been a fan since birth (lie, they have guaranteed him play time) I don’t want to play for you(Lakers), as he is an idiot if he does) then the Lakers will be appalled by his crappy attitude and let him go.
Guys would this be classified as tampering if it happened and can it happen?

43. What if the team and their drafted player can’t agree to a contract? What options does the player have? How long does the team keep his draft rights?

The player’s options are limited. What happens depends on a number of factors:

    * If the player is already under contract to, or signs a contract with a non-NBA team, the team retains the player’s draft rights for one year after the player’s obligation to the non-NBA team ends. Essentially, the clock stops as long as the player plays pro ball outside the NBA. Players are not included in the team’s team salary during the regular season while the player is under contract with a non-NBA team.

    […]

    * For all other players, the team retains the player’s draft rights until the date of the next draft.

In any of the above cases, if the team does not sign the player in the allotted time, the player can enter the next draft. If the team that selects the player in the next draft doesn’t sign him either, he becomes a rookie free agent.

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per Larry Coon’s CBA FAQ.

If the Lakers don’t offer a contract to, for example, Ebanks, then the Lakers retain the rights to Ebanks for at least one year, and maybe longer if he signs with a non-NBA team. Just to reiterate what’s in the quote above, signing with a non-NBA team stops the clock on the one year window in which the Lakers own his rights, and the clock doesn’t start again until the non-NBA contract expires. As I understand it, the only way to shorten the year the Lakers own the rights to Ebanks is if the Lakers sign Ebanks to a contract, but then waive him at some point. If no team picks him up off the waiver wire, which would effectively transfer the contract he signed with the Lakers to that new team, he will become a free agent, able to sign with any NBA team.

I’d sign-and-trade him along with first rounder for Henry in a hearbeat.

And if anything indicated that Heisley is a huge cheapskate, this is it.

I saw that as well. It’s a kobe group’s facebook status

and rec’d!

How could I NOT be tempted to use that………

but the Lakers are very much a “win now” team. The strategic goal is to max out the number of titles they win while Kobe is in his prime. That takes precedence over PT for a guy like Ebanks, who in any event will get to play in the D League.

and depends on who you ask, you’ll get different answers.

I personally don’t think there should be a GOAT, but rather, a GOAT short list for debating purposes.

Until Bill Sharman got him to care about defense and what other players wanted. He never had the same drive that inspired other teammates like Jordan for instance. Also, his numbers were hugely inflated by the incredibly fast pace of the game at the time and the fact that there really wasn’t anyone who could guard him on the interior besides Russell.

It might take a while before the word rivalry can be thrown around and it might take more than one season before it can be compared to the Lakers vs Celtics. But in 2010-2011 it will be a battle if both teams face each other.

btw…I like that you referred to Lebron as 2nd best. Well at least I think you are referring to him and not Wade.