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Shaq to Miami for Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, Brian Grant, & A First Round Pick...
M Dogg™:
The Lakers are going with youth. This reminds me of 1995, when the Lakers had a very young core of players, and the next year they added Shaq into the mix who himself was young. Let these young guys grow, mature as basketball players, and hopefully Kobe will resign to start the rebuilding, and it's all good. Odam is not even 25, he has lots of great years ahead, and we'll see how things turn out. Grant is getting up in age, but so was Shaq, in the west it'll be hard not to win without Shaq, but he only has a couple more years, this is good. Instead of beating a dying horse, get some young ones ready for the long haul in the Kobe era, and build the team to fit Kobe, get some runners, all we need is a young quick point guard like a Wade (man we should really hold out for him) and we'd be set. Hell, lets trade Payton for Nelson in Orlando... lol... 'cause rumor is if Shaq leaves, so does Payton. We'll see.
Now_Im_Not_Banned:
^^What rumor? Payton already re-signed with the Lakers...
--- Quote ---ll, i got a question for you..and other lakers fan....arn't you a little pissed off (or sad ) that shaq is going? i mean he was one of the BIG reasons you guys won 3 straight. I know i'd be pissed
--- End quote ---
Of course I'm pissed off and sad, but what can we do? Shaq is getting older, and more selfish than ever...It is what it is.
Smoke:
Anyway if Malone resigns, we will have him as PF and Grant in the C spot. Two guys who can defend and rebounds. And we will have Walton and Medvedenko, two subs who can score. Not that bad, if you consider we traded the most dominant C ever.
Don Jacob:
it's really sad that the lakers are getting rid of shaq, for me personally this SUCKS and SWALLOWS! Shaq's my all time favorite player , like i said when he came to us i was in 7th heaven! no he's back in florida :'( but oh well out of all the trades that were most likely to go down i'm glad we got it done with miami....for those of you who say we didn't get one all star type player.....WTF ODOM!!! LAMAR FUCKIN" ODOM! he's definately capabale of being an all star, i mean shit if chancey can get finals MVP lamar can get on the all star team. also this works out well in the middle, let's face it....no one will ever compare to shaq....no one has no one ever will. it's clear the lakers are building around kobe which is bueatiful, he just needs big guys who can pass shoot, rebound and can score if he can't deliver which caron and grant can easily handle....it's what they WANT TO DO.
Smoke:
Exactly. Lakers didnt need "another" Shaq. I mean another dominant player in the C. They needed good defenders and rebounders. If they resign Malone, they are a good playoffs team built around the best player in the league.
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