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acbaylove:
Don't say it to me...... >:(

TeeRaySix9Teen:

--- Quote from: Antonio on February 13, 2006, 11:24:47 PM ---Don't say it to me...... >:(

--- End quote ---

KWAME SUCKS  ;)

7even:
I agree, he should become fat in order to be the next Oliver Miller. That's the most efficient thing he can do. Forget serious basketball with this cat.

7even:
LMAOOOOOO

The Lakers just extended his contract. Oh boy. Bye Bye big free agent in 2007-08. Good luck becoming contenders with the biggest bust in nba history.

The 2007 Plan Dead?
After making a stab at Ron Artest, the Lakers have appeared to be quiet on the trade front.  A rebuffed inquiry to the New York Knicks on Channing Frye aside, LA has been said to be offering no more than Devean George, Slava Medvedenko and the Miami 2006 pick to any inquiring suitor.

The plan from the moment Shaquille O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat was to attain cap room in 2007 to pursue a top free agent.  Unfortunately for the Lakers, names like Yao Ming and Amare Stoudemire inked long term extensions with their existing teams.  The hope of acquiring LeBron James may be nothing more than a fantasy.

Still, all of the team's moves over the last year or so have seemingly been geared towards maintaining their cap flexibility in 2007.

Or have they?

This summer, the Lakers traded Caron Butler and Chucky Atkins to the Washington Wizards for Kwame Brown.  The deal was a sign and trade which had Brown's contract guaranteed for two seasons.  The third season was originally $9.075 million in non-guaranteed money at the Lakers' discretion, thus fitting into the 2007 plan.

BUT

After a number of inquiries to sources within and around the NBA, the Lakers have already GUARANTEED Brown's third year.

Why would they do so?  The answer can only be speculative, but whatever the reason may be the 2007 plan is now defunct.

Unless the Lakers are able to clear Kwame Brown's contract off their books before then, the Lakers will have nearly $45 million in guaranteed salaries heading into the summer of 2007 with just Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, Andrew Bynum and Brown on the roster. A reasonable projection is that the salary cap in 2007 will be near $53 million dollars, but with the complex rules of the collective bargaining agreement, the Lakers will have no more to offer than that summer's mid-level exception. In other words, the waiting will have been for nothing.

Perhaps the 2007 plan has been cast by the wayside for 2008 when players like LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Kevin Garnett may be unrestricted free agents (Garnett has an early termination option in 2008, not in 2007 as recently misreported by ESPN Insider). [7even says: Arent LeBron and Bosh already free after 06-07?]

Is wasting three years of Kobe Bryant's prime worth the sacrifice?  Will the player the Lakers ultimately attain be that special?

Suffice:
Yeah, we're fucked with this fucking dufus on our team. I guess the only hope is that Bynum will get better, and they'll trade Odom for somebody better and smarter - that idiot lost 2 guaranteed wins in the last month by taking the ball to the basket and losing it when the Lakers were up with a few seconds to go in the 4th

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