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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: GangstaBoogy on July 26, 2007, 07:37:11 PM
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It's true... I'm surprised, I really thought he'd go to the Clippers. I've spent all day with his agent & I've heard from him himself... it will be official by latest Saturday. What a surprise?
2 year/$5 million
Lol the Heat were reported to be interested in him. I guess we have to wait and see...
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lol I remember everybody buildin up Smush as the next greatest thing when he came to LA. I wonder what those same people would say about him if he went to the Heat.
....kinda sounds familiar to another player.... :-X
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^^Laker fans started hating Smush in his last season here...I never had a major problem with him, just thought he was in the wrong role (starting point guard, when he shoulda been a combo guard off the bench). He did show some promise in his Laker debut, and kept it up for some time. But yea, he shouldn't have been in the position he was. Heat are about to make the same mistake :-X...PeACe
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^^Laker fans started hating Smush in his last season here...I never had a major problem with him, just thought he was in the wrong role (starting point guard, when he shoulda been a combo guard off the bench). He did show some promise in his Laker debut, and kept it up for some time. But yea, he shouldn't have been in the position he was. Heat are about to make the same mistake :-X...PeACe
i agree, he's a decent bench player. But definetely not a starting PG
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Parker is a pretty skilled player, but....
- He's not a point guard
- He has quick hands and can steal the ball, but he plays an horrible team defence
- He dissed Phil Jackson who's 100x bigger than him
I prefeer Fisher as the starting point guard and Evans as the backup shooting guard (at least they can defend, which is the thing i see more in a player)
I'm happy we improved in them roles without overpaying Smush.
About the Heat... i don't really care about them.
Good luck Smush.
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^^Laker fans started hating Smush in his last season here...I never had a major problem with him, just thought he was in the wrong role (starting point guard, when he shoulda been a combo guard off the bench). He did show some promise in his Laker debut, and kept it up for some time. But yea, he shouldn't have been in the position he was. Heat are about to make the same mistake :-X...PeACe
i agree, he's a decent bench player. But definetely not a starting PG
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just adds to the lists of other lakers to retire in miami
-pat riley
-shaq
-payton
-eddie jones
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^^Samaki Walker...
LOL@Heat picking up Lakers' garbage though...
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just adds to the lists of other lakers to retire in miami
-pat riley
-shaq
-payton
-eddie jones
your fav nba team is the heat
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didn't take long for the bitchboy to hop one the bash Kobe bandwagon...
Parker eager to play alongside Wade
By Kevin Clark | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
July 29, 2007
Smush Parker, the Heat's newest acquisition, might be one of the luckiest point guards in the NBA. After two seasons running point for Kobe Bryant in L.A., Parker will now back up Jason Williams in Miami and play with another megastar, Heat guard Dwyane Wade.
For Parker, playing with Wade comes as a relief.
"D-Wade is more of a people person than Kobe," Parker said of Bryant, his often-mercurial teammate. "I'm looking forward to jelling with Wade, and playing with him. He's going to be a great teammate."
Now how long till he begs Wade for an autograph?
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LOL...Smush is mad cuz no one on the Lakers liked him.
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haha lol let see if he do the same stuff when he was with the lakers.
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Heat's Smush Parker says he'll get chance to start
Newly-signed Miami Heat point guard Smush Parker speaks to the media at American Airlines Arena. (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-heatparker072907,0,250609.story)
By Michael Cunningham | Sun-Sentinel.com
2:41 PM EDT, July 30, 2007
MIAMI - Will it be Smush Parker instead of Jason Williams at point guard for the Heat this fall?
Parker, who signed a two-year contract with the Heat on Friday, said the Heat told him he'd have a chance to win the starting job from Williams.
"As of right now, we are battling for the starting position, me and [Williams]," Parker said during a news conference Monday at AmericanAirlines Arena. "Nothing is guaranteed. I am going to come in and work hard and earn everything they give me here."
A starting spot for Parker seems unlikely as long as Williams is healthy. Size (6-foot-4 compared to 6-foot-1), defense and youth (26-years old to Williams' 31) seem to be the only areas in which Parker has a clear advantage.
Williams has missed 43 games for the Heat over the last two seasons while Parker missed none. But coach Pat Riley has maintained that Williams is an offensive catalyst for the Heat when healthy, and Williams has a good chemistry with Dwyane Wade.
Williams also is a nine-year NBA starter, the kind of veteran Riley trusts. Parker will be playing for his fifth team in five seasons and has just two full seasons as a starter, losing his spot to rookie Jordan Farmar late last season with the Lakers.
Nonetheless, Riley said last week that Parker still is improving "and we feel that this could be his best year yet." Parker said he believes he fits the Heat's pick-and-roll offense better than Lakers coach Phil Jackson's "triangle" system.
"We didn't play much pick-and-roll in L.A.," he said. "I am a playmaker. I like to create some things. I am going to have fun in this offense."
Parker said he signed with the Heat after also considering the Clippers and Celtics. He said the Heat could contend for a championship after winning it two years ago and then losing to Chicago in the first round of the playoffs in April.
"I feel like this team, with the right combination of guys, can get back to winning," he said.
After telling the Sun-Sentinel over the weekend that Wade is "more of a people person" than Lakers star Kobe Bryant, Parker was more diplomatic about his old team Monday.
Asked about losing his starting job to Farmar, Parker simply thanked the Lakers for giving him an opportunity.
"I learned some things, had fun," he said. "But that chapter is done and I am here now. I am looking forward to coming in this season to play."
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just adds to the lists of other lakers to retire in miami
-pat riley
-shaq
-payton
-eddie jones
your fav nba team is the heat
you have more of an argument for the nuggets than the heat. but no neither are my favorite teams.
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That shit Smush said is probably the dumbest thing i've heard from a newly acquired player this year. I mean wtf? You're saying Wade is better than Kobe as a teammate and you've seen him face to face 5-6 times in your life?
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That shit Smush said is probably the dumbest thing i've heard from a newly acquired player this year. I mean wtf? You're saying Wade is better than Kobe as a teammate and you've seen him face to face 5-6 times in your life?
He didn't say he was a better teammate, he said he was more of a "people person"...It's sad, really, because Kobe was one of the only ones who reached out to Smush when he was acting bitter and tried taking him under his wing...Seems like Smush is just upset that he couldn't play the triangle...LMAO@him calling himself a "playmaker".
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That shit Smush said is probably the dumbest thing i've heard from a newly acquired player this year. I mean wtf? You're saying Wade is better than Kobe as a teammate and you've seen him face to face 5-6 times in your life?
nobody likes a rapist
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^^What are you talking about? Mike Tyson had more fans in the 90's than any boxer I can think of...
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^^ good point. lemme rephrase what i said. I dont like a rapist
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Kobe only rapes teams.
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teens is with 2 e's and a N no A or M
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Yes, he rapes teens too, ask Monta... Good thing players can't come out of high school anymore though. :D
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u have to admit that was funny though.
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That shit Smush said is probably the dumbest thing i've heard from a newly acquired player this year. I mean wtf? You're saying Wade is better than Kobe as a teammate and you've seen him face to face 5-6 times in your life?
He didn't say he was a better teammate, he said he was more of a "people person"...It's sad, really, because Kobe was one of the only ones who reached out to Smush when he was acting bitter and tried taking him under his wing...Seems like Smush is just upset that he couldn't play the triangle...LMAO@him calling himself a "playmaker".
Yeah it's sad cause we don't know them in their personal lifes and shit, but the best image i have in my mind when somebody names Smush Parker is Kobe Bryant kissing him in his head after he stole Steve Nash that ball that Kobe converted in the clutch lay-up that sent that infamous match against the Suns to OT (then he made the other incredible clutch shot to win the game in OT). I've always thought they were somehow cool. But for real, he had no reasons to compare Wade to Kobe anyway. If you like Wade, simply say "I like Wade", and that's it. Don't bitch. Phil didn't want him back in L.A., life goes on.
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^^ good point. lemme rephrase what i said. I dont like a rapist
And i don't like bitches who blames famous people to get money and don't have the balls to take it to the penal court, because they know they'd get destroyed by a good lawyer because of their lies.
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^^ whatever u say my lil euro friend.
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Don't get me wrong, Kobe did a mistake. I mean i'm a father myself, and i have a wife. He's not the kind of person i like. I prefeer people like Derek Fisher. But that bitch was disgusting, and she only wanted to get some millions off Kobe's bank account.
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I wonder if Miami knows what they're getting into.
Wait until Riley gets enough of Smush's indifferent attitude.