A quick jaunt through the 2010-2011 season

Nothing but anti-Kobe, pro-LeBron groupie rants. At least get facts straight when trying to bash a player. Like her claiming Kobe forced his way out of Charlotte to go play for Phil and the contending Lakers with Shaq.

…Fascist.

igonre how crappy the article is and then move on to talk about something else in “said blog” lol

It was originally posted in the yesterday’s Credits. I hid it, but you’ll still be able to read all the comments associated with the hidden comment. I said crap like that doesn’t deserve the power of SSR clickthroughs.

THIS SHOULD BE!! signature campaign!! hahaha

40% 3pt shooting, 48% overall. And fast enough to guard PGs that Fish and Blake can’t. I’d also like to think we’d have been able to give more than just Trevor Ariza.

I’m sure a change of scenery is all the Clippers need. Cuz even with that Seattle weather could brighten their day without seeing all those gold banners in the rafters

[links to youtube video of mvp chants in boston]

Don’t get snippy.

The Rockets didn’t trade Artest. They lost him to free-agency.

You say the Rockets already had enough D with Battier? So, one good perimeter defender is enough? I guess LA didn’t need Barnes?

Not with all the wings they have. There’s not a whole lot of minutes between Martin, Lee, Jeffries, Battier, Budinger, and Taylor and Lee isn’t exactly a defensive slouch either. And the Barnes situation is a straw man considering that we had a clear spot in our bench rotation that we’re filling. Houston filled it with Lee and didn’t really need to in any case.

This is the thing, its being said he locked horns with Aaron Brooks and thus, getting rid of him was about money/mood. Money/mood? Can’t get along with the POINT GUARD?

Source? Or is this just hyperbole you’re inserting? There have been practically no reports backing up what you’re asserting here.

I’d say its a PG problem, since Houston is having orgasms over a shoot first PG that I’d Hate to have on my team.

Except the Lakers run completely different systems and what we want isn’t really relevant. Considering the offense that Adelman runs, Brooks being a shoot-first point isn’t really a detriment.

Added to that, remember Artests feelings about Houston? I believed them, I didn’t just take them as random ramblings. He said he tried Hard for them, didn’t complain, and then they just up and traded him, messing up his bird rights.

He left via free agency. Whatever Bird rights he had with his previous deal are completely irrelevant here unless Houston did a sign-and-trade and that was pointless considering that they had their MLE on top of the injury exception from Yao’s contract. Why would they give him a contract over the MLE and sign-and-trade him when that meant taking back Ariza for $7-8 million/year and when they had plenty of exceptions to sign players with?

Tucker’s article only mentions Bird rights that Artest would have if he left in free agency after three years; if he declines his PO and the Lakers want to sign him, they’d have his Bird rights regardless, besides the fact that he’s not making over $3-4 million/year at that age in any case, so it’s a largely moot point.

I don’t even think McGrady would disagree with me about the Rockets org. If they could get rid of Yao now, I bet they would.

Considering that McGrady essentially quit on Houston and played like crap after he came back from microfracture, I’d say Houston is safely in the right here for not wanting to play him until he could show that he was healthy.

As for Yao, why on earth would Morey trade him when nearly all of his moves — especially the Martin trade — are designed around having Yao in the middle? Stop casting aspersions when you literally have nothing to back it up with.

I’m not impressed with Morey just because he’s the ‘hip’ thing to like right now. Plus, they haven’t won anything.

Considering that Morey inherited two oft-injured max stars and used a minimal amount of financial flexibility and low draft picks to get value in nearly every transaction he’s had for the past three years, that’s pretty damn impressive.

The Rockets DIDN’T trade Artest, hence why he lost his Bird Rights. Artest wanted a sign-and-trade, which would have kept his Bird Rights intact.

The thing is, there was no time to negotiate one, as Ariza-to-Houston wasn’t thought to be a prime possibility until AFTER the Artest-to-LA signing, until then more rumours were around about Cleveland, as far as I remember.

Plus, Artest did have his own issues in Houston. Disturbing the shit out of the business partners on the bus, etc. Not to mention, he’d been wanting to go to the Lakers for a while by then, and being the honest person he was he’d probably already told Morey, possibly why Morey didn’t pursue him to re-sign too aggressively.

And there’s no reason for Morey to hold off trading Ariza…. it’s a business, you aim to build your team. Morey believes that Courtney Lee is a better fit and more talented than Ariza, and thus he traded Ariza for Lee. What’s wrong with that, exactly? He even specifically stated ‘the trade wasn’t due to Trevor, we just really wanted Lee’ (paraphrased), and they’d been scouting Lee for years.

And as for Yao? Of COURSE you’d get rid of his salary if you could. You have a duty to do your best for your owner, and spending $20 million on a player who isn’t even guaranteed to be able to get on the floor effectively for more than half the season isn’t doing your best for the ownership. If anything, Yao should have opted out of his contract, instead of dragging the Rockets down; yet you don’t hear anyone complaining about that.

was to show Chris Paul that they’re going to surround him with better pieces. Ariza for Posey is a good swap, but dumping Collison was to show that even though Collison had a great year, they’re not choosing him over Paul as many had suggested they were. Plus, when Collison’s contract does come up, they’re not going to pay him unless they get rid of Paul and he’s just going to leave anyway. Of the pieces on the market for SF, I’d say Ariza is a good fit. He’s young, he can shoot the open 3, and he doesn’t have to dominate the ball to work best. He’s a great fit for them and he plays the defense Posey was supposed to at a current cheaper yearly price. They just need to get a credible back-up guard for Paul and they should be able to lure people there with the prospect of playing with Paul, Ariza, and West, and if Okafor decided to play well him to. I don’t think its really a bad move, but we’ll see in due time what happens with it.

no one wants an aging shooter who can’t play defense or pretty much do anything else. I’m sure they’re still trying to move him, but I think the only way to get this deal done was to move Collison because thats what the Pacers really wanted. Peja will most likely be moved sometime later in the year and as I said, they can get a good trade with Peja as the bargaining chip later down the road. I’m sure this isn’t the last of their offseason moves.

Collison >>>>> Ariza

what does that mean.

Jan 2. Arrgh!