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2012 NBA Offseason |OT2| Lakers Fans Despise Freedom.

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linsivvi

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darkside31337 said:
JoshuaBRobbins
The #Magic received a $17.8 million traded player exception in the deal, Hennigan said. Magic will have 1 year to use it.

All right! Best thing we got out of this Dwight trade was a massive fuckton TPE. Hell yeah!
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Coincidentally CP3 is making $17.8M this season. So you can get him for all those protected picks when he inevitably demands a trade.
 
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charsace

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darkside31337 said:
JoshuaBRobbins
The #Magic received a $17.8 million traded player exception in the deal, Hennigan said. Magic will have 1 year to use it.

All right! Best thing we got out of this Dwight trade was a massive fuckton TPE. Hell yeah!
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And how many times have teams gotten worth while players with a TPE?
 
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Black Mamba

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DY_nasty said:
You've obviously never watched more than 3 games of Meeks lol

but it doesn't matter you can sign joe forte at this point yolo
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I admit, this is true. Philly is barely on TV. Just looking at his stats. Only seen him a bit.

But I still think he should be better than Glock. We'll see. Lakers just needed someone not 6 foot to back up Kobe.
 
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Black Mamba said:
I admit, this is true. Philly is barely on TV. Just looking at his stats. Only seen him a bit.

But I still think he should be better than Glock. We'll see. Lakers just needed someone not 6 foot to back up Kobe.
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Isn't Jermaine Taylor still free? Give him or Wafer a call. All you guys need is a discount Shannon.
 
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Zeus Molecules

illegal immigrants are stealing our air
What the Spurs thought before and likely do again: Hennigan isn't Presti

In the context of the article that line is the equivalent of saying "Hennigan aint shit" .... Damn
 
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charsace

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Meeks fucking blows. I've seen enough of him over the years. Glad he'll be out in the west so I won't have to see his ugly, selfish games 4 times a season.
 
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Raging Spaniard

If they are Dutch, upright and breathing they are more racist than your favorite player
Until FIBA adopts the NBA 3 point line, the rest of the world will remain an underdog. I mean, the US might lose a game sometime, but it will always be the exception.
 
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Mxrz

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I'm ready to call Hennigan an idiot, Alex Martins for hiring him. DeVos for hiring all of them. Shaw bolting after the interview with Hennigan is making more sense. A 2017 pick. Really? Its like the Nets trade, yet worse if you ignore Max Lopez. I can't believe Otis had it right last year.

Ah well. DC should sue tho, don't want a human douche identifying himself as your 2nd biggest IP.
 
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SamuraiX-

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Knux-Future said:
Overrated shooter. Shit defender. Isn't 6'4.


Only got as much clock as he did because we didn't know what shooting meant so he looked like a god for a bit and Doug wanted to ruin Turner.


Glock is better than Meeks.


Not that it fucking matters tho...lol.
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So you mean to tell me that Lakers fans overrate players who they thought were only average or subpar before donning a Lakers jersey?

SAY IT AIN'T SO
 
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Raging Spaniard

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giga said:
Lol. Delfino is killing us. You'll be alright.
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Thats not my point, shooting 3's for Durant and Kobe is 2nd nature in this format, its just a long two.

If the whole world had the same 3pt line then the US wouldnt have the best athletes AND the best shooters. As of now, very few international players have true NBA range, the new generation would really benefit growing up with a better standard.

Yea, Delfino is having his best game and youre up by 7 without breaking a sweat ... In order for Argentina to win, 3 of their players need to have the best game of their lives AND the US needs to play like utter shit. In the last Olympic final spain played the best game in Spanish history and we still lost by 11 just because the Americans played an average game.
 
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Fenderputty

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Black Mamba said:
I admit, this is true. Philly is barely on TV. Just looking at his stats. Only seen him a bit.

But I still think he should be better than Glock. We'll see. Lakers just needed someone not 6 foot to back up Kobe.
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Glock is a true 2 though isn't he? I think a lot of the issue he had last year were due to him subbing at the one.
 
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charsace

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The Lakers are basically a less successful Yankees. Everyone in the league wants to play there. They should have more titles than they have now. When their GM was shitting the bed by over paying guys like Luke and Sasha Memphis comes a long and gifts them Pau. Now when you would think they are close to a rebuild they get gifted the best center in the game. Madness.
 
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Black Mamba

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Alex Kennedy ‏@AlexKennedyNBA
Jodie Meeks had larger offers from the Washington Wizards and Milwaukee Bucks, but signed with the Los Angeles Lakers to compete for title.
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Glock is a true 2 though isn't he? I think a lot of the issue he had last year were due to him subbing at the one.
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In style of play, yes. But he's 6 foot soaking wet. Too short to play that spot in the NBA.
 
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ClovingWestbrook

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Here

Dwight Howard joins Lakers, needs to leave clown act behind in Orlando
25 minutes ago

LONDON – After a pre-trade deadline telephone call when Dwight Howard and Kobe Bryant hung up believing they could never co-exist as teammates, months and months passed and, still, the two superstars never spoke again. Howard wanted Bryant to tell him what the Lakers could do to elevate his offensive stature, and Bryant wanted Howard to tell him he was determined to come with a defensive and rebounding mindset to make the Lakers champions again.

Dwight Howard joins a star-filled Lakers lineup that includes Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Steve Nash. (AP)The call ended poorly, and it wouldn't be long until Howard had turned toward a path of far less resistance with the Brooklyn Nets.

As much as anything, Howard was determined to stop marching down the path of Shaquille O'Neal: From No. 1 overall pick to ring-less Orlando Magic center to self-proclaimed Superman, comedian and goofball musician, there was a part of Howard that resisted the inevitable power play to also make him a Laker.

Nevertheless, Howard made a mess of an easy exit out of Orlando, obliterating his march into a max-contract salary slot with Deron Williams and the Nets with an impulsive choice to reject his contract opt-out. Freedom of choice was gone, and the Magic wouldn't do a deal with Brooklyn.

In the end, Howard needed the Lakers and Bryant. And yes – for now and the future – Bryant and the Lakers needed Howard. The trade was completed on Friday and Howard gets the bright lights, big city and a championship chase with the Lakers. Howard gets his Showtime, but make no mistake: Howard comes without leverage in the locker room and doesn't have the latitude to revert back to his old class-clown self.

"I'm excited and happy that we are starting to have a clear vision of what our team will be," Bryant told Yahoo! Sports in an email before Friday night's Olympic semifinal game.

The vision is this: A serious-minded star for a serious-minded basketball franchise. Stan Van Gundy tried so, so hard to instill that within Howard, but the culture of Orlando always made the Magic beholden to Howard. No more. Howard is bigger than life, but he isn't bigger than the Lakers.

So, yes, Bryant searched out Howard's cell phone on Friday morning and made the call to Howard that the two superstars had resisted for months now. When the time comes, rest assured, Bryant will make something clear: The carnival act ends now. The clowning and goofing are done. During games, players used to hear Kevin Garnett screaming at Howard: "Paint your face, clown!" up and down the floor.

"That will be an interesting dynamic," one ex-teammate of Howard told Yahoo! Sports on Friday. "Not even just with Kobe. I don't think [Steve] Nash and Pau [Gasol] will enjoy that at this point in their career."

Bryant won't make a big deal out of the arrival of Howard. He won't give him the satisfaction of treating him like a savior. Howard has to earn his way with the Lakers. Howard has a chance to erase the stain of his diva act these past two seasons and brand himself a champion.

The Lakers needed Howard as the next in the magnificent lineage of franchise centers: From Mikan and Chamberlain, Abdul-Jabbar and O'Neal, to Howard now. Someday everything will belong to Howard, but his mindset of a year ago needs to be different. He wanted to be the centerpiece offensive player, but that doesn't happen with Bryant, Gasol and Nash on the floor. Perhaps that will be the case when those three have faded into sunset, but the 26-year-old Howard comes to the Lakers needing to remain true to what's always been his greatest attribute: His standing as the greatest defensive force in the sport.

[Related: Dwight Howard trade shows best and worst of NBA]

As one NBA coach texted on Friday, "He'll have to be the fourth option offensively and I wonder if he's willing to do that."

Howard is still recovering from back surgery, and no one is sure he'll be ready for opening night – never mind the opening month of the season. He's living in Southern California now, and it would be wise for him to get together with Bryant once these Olympics are over and start to understand the culture change awaiting him.

Someday, those Lakers will belong to Howard, but he doesn't walk into the door with that clout. Championships are everything there, and no one will want to hear about Howard's big ideas about how the offense will feature him. With him at his best, the Lakers are championship contenders but still no sure thing. Howard wanted Hollywood and the Staples Center and all that does for a star in Los Angeles, but he needs to get beyond the idea that he's going there to transform the Lakers. They'll transform him. That's what Bryant was trying to tell him on the phone last season, and that's what he'll assuredly tell him again: Get your mind right and understand that chasing championships in Los Angeles needs to be the most serious pursuit of your basketball life. Try it another way – Dwight Howard's old way – and there will be hell to pay.
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charsace said:
The Lakers are basically a less successful Yankees. Everyone in the league wants to play there. They should have more titles than they have now. When their GM was shitting the bed by over paying guys like Luke and Sasha Memphis comes a long and gifts them Pau. Now when you would think they are close to a rebuild they get gifted the best center in the game. Madness.
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Unlike the Yankees, the Lakers had to go up against a Russell led Celtics for a decade and then didn't have anybody surrounding Kareem until Magic arrived. Since Magic arrived in 1980 the Lakers have won 10 rings in 30 years, so basically 33% of the time which I BELIEVE is a better percentage than the Yankees have over that same time frame?
 
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Omega

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Meeks is bad. I know I'm a little late but thought I would put that out there.

Being an ex-bandwagon Philly fan I still watch a lot of their games, he's not worth being the backup to Kobe.

He'll be the Lakers' Toney Douglas. (post-'Antoni era)
 
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Bread

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Rodeo Clown said:
Very true. It's still better than Afflalo and Al Harrington and a bunch of picks Hannigan won't be around to use. The Sonics got Green on a rookie deal. Afflalo and Harrington are due roughly a billion dollars.
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Harkless and Vujecic is...something I guess. The rest is absolute shit.
 
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