tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Relocation isn't gonna change anything. Now ownership could, but there isn't a scenario that involves staying with new ownership. Otherwise they woulda been sold already.
Random NBA Observations 2014 - 2015
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theres already random games played in london monterey mexico city 
works with globalizing the game.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
As impressive as it is to see Pau rejuvenated, I said this last season, if your title hopes bank on Pau Gasol being less of a bytch, you're not winning. Now in Chicago's case, it didn't cost them picks or players, just money. Sending $21 mil in salaries and picks back for Pau wasn't realistic.I'm gonna keep repeating this: Mozgov was worth two first rounders and teams wouldn't give up anything more than one for Pau last year.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Guess who they're sending to those games?
Teams who otherwise can't sell tickets or bad teams in general.
man stfu, the east won 8 of 10 titles from 89 to 98. the west has won 11 of 16 since. you top 16 seed clowns are just that clowns who are reactionary
OKC would have won it all with him.
Two first round picks and a bunch of dead weight to equal Pau's salary would have put them over the top. Perk, Lamb, Jones, Thabo, Fish (
) and Thabeet. Nobody could have matched a crunch time five of Westbrook, Jackson, Durant, Ibaka and Pau.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
OKC would have won it all with him.
Two first round picks and a bunch of dead weight to equal Pau's salary would have put them over the top. Perk, Lamb, Jones, Thabo, Fish (
Nobody could have matched a crunch time five of Westbrook, Jackson, Durant, Ibaka and Pau.
So LA was gonna take Perk back and pay him just to get rid of Pau? See how you're pretty much hoping the Thunder can win with just 5 players and no bench meanwhile Chicago doesn't have that issue?
It went from "with Harden they coulda won it all" to "with Gasol they coulda won it all" and had they dealt Reggie last week "cheap asses coulda won it all with Reggie".
Sounds to me like they're getting closer
Still had Collison, Butler and Roberson. Most of those guys would have been playing 40+ a night in the playoffs.So LA was gonna take Perk back and pay him just to get rid of Pau? See how you're pretty much hoping the Thunder can win with just 5 players and no bench meanwhile Chicago doesn't have that issue?
It went from "with Harden they coulda won it all" to "with Gasol they coulda won it all" and had they dealt Reggie last week "cheap asses coulda won it all with Reggie".
Sounds to me like they're getting closer
This was a lost season for LA anyway. The young players and picks would have been worth having that bum Perk for a year.
Bilz
Superstar
Pau's $20 million contract or whatever it was + the Lakers refusal to take back non-expiring salary made trading him just about impossible.I'm gonna keep repeating this: Mozgov was worth two first rounders and teams wouldn't give up anything more than one for Pau last year.
Teams weren't offering more than a single pick either.
These brehs so happy to win
Bilz
Superstar
Because they were offering a ton of cap relief. If I remember correctly, the Lakers were really only trying hard to deal him for
injured players like Bynum and Okafor that could have saved them like $20 million because they weren't playing and insurance would have covered their deals. Pau's financial cost to Phoenix or Cleveland would have been enormous and he could have walked away at the end of the year. They had no reason to load the Lakers up with picks. They would have been doing the Lakers a favor by taking Pau and they knew it.If the Lakers were willing to trade him for guys that actually would have stayed on the payroll at tax time and/or players that more time left on their deals, some playoff team would have thrown in some draft picks for him.