06-03-2008, 10:38 PM | #1 |
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From Bill Simmons re: the Gasol trade...
(Simmons is ESPN.com's "The Sports Guy", my favorite columnist on ESPN.com)
"At least the Celts gave up Al Jefferson for KG. How was the Gasol trade legal? If I kill my mailman and no one ever finds out, does that make it legal? Jerry West's old team (Memphis) gift-wrapped its best player for the team that once employed West for 40 years, taking back a pupu platter (Kwame Brown, a third-string guard and two crappy picks). This happened even though the Lakers' season would have been over without a center. Had this trade taken place in a fantasy league, it would have led to three weeks of vicious e-mails, crumbled friendships, guys quitting and maybe even a fistfight. In the NBA, it led to the Lakers being presented the 2008 Western Conference trophy by … yup, a crying Jerry West. The NBA, where chicanery happens." http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3422313 |
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Uh-huh. Simmons is a tool, but he's right. This trade doesn't happen on NBA Live, in Fantasy Leagues anywhere, or even with Basketball cards. Only in the NBA... |
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06-04-2008, 04:01 PM | #3 |
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Simmons is a tool?
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The dollars have to match in NBA trades and the lakers happened to have a big expiring contract on a crappy player which is exactly what Memphis needed in order to rebuild their team. People need to stop whining about this. |
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The other thing is why not shop Gasol more then they did. I'd bet they could have found a much better offer for Pau than what they got. Agree or disagree? If I'm a Laker fan and can't admit that we fleeced the Grizzlies on that trade, then you are delusional. It will go down as one of the most lopsided trades in NBA History, if not in pro-sports history. |
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And if you think that those 2nd rounds picks from the Lakers were throwaways look at what the Lakers have done with theirs in recent years (Turiaf and Walton). They also got Marc Gasol who in a few years can be as good as Pau and has been playing well in Europe now.
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