Comments on: Thoughts on Ricky Rubio

By: Gerrit

Gerrit — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:13:22 +0000

So it’s 12 minutes after nine.
Are all the free agents resigned yet?

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:07:04 +0000

New free agent feeding frenzy thread up.

By: j. d. hastings

j. d. hastings — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:05 +0000

Also: how many rockets fans really love gortat enough to email him? (v. how many smarmy jerks will email that account just to say smarmy jerk things?)

I hope they just plan to forward him the nice messages and edit out the bad ones.

By: j. d. hastings

j. d. hastings — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:56:40 +0000

Rockets Gm Darryl Morey just tweeted:

“Meeting in a few w/ Gortat.Send a note to him NOW at rocketsfanslovegortat@gmail.com .He will receive.Show him how much we want him in Red!”

Wow. Its a new age, baby!

By: j. d. hastings

j. d. hastings — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:31:46 +0000

Man, the whole Buss family should have Odom and Ariza over for dinner tonight, so they’re playing wii when 9 strikes and they can get it done…

I’m a big fan of Ariza’s but 8 million is too much. Having said that, it’s less reasonable to ask him to leave money on the table than Kobe or Odom. They are coming off huge deals and these contracts/extensions would be the icing on their financial cakes. Ariza is looking for his first big pay day. While 8 v. 6 million a year sounds greedy to us, he’s got family and a long retirement to plan for.

By: Snoopy2006

Snoopy2006 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:21:31 +0000

63 – Yup, Mitch jumped on the phone a minute after midnight to re-sign Luke Walton to a multi-year deal. If he was that eager to get Walton back, the entire Lakers front office must have their fingers hovering over the phone, ready to pounce on Ariza/Lamar.

By: chris h

chris h — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:47:11 +0000

if the Lakers do introduce a black uniform, it will no doubt expand the license and merchandise revenue to the NBA, and the team (I’m pretty sure there’s some kind of revenue share) and each player who has jersey sales will also benefit.
not a bad way to help pay for a few free agents, eh?

man, soon, 9:01Pm pacific, we just might hear some rumblings…I know, chill, but I seem to recall the lakers making an offer at 1 minute past the hour in recent times when they really wanted someone.

By: luubi

luubi — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:45:00 +0000

doesn’t it get hot with black? granted they’re indoors with A/C, but still, those bright lights.

I saw a study that showed teams w/ red uniforms are perceived as being more aggressive and therefore get more favorable calls. I don’t know what black does. No I don’t want the Lakers to switch to red.

As for wearing black for special games: just say no. We don’t want the other team to think they’re special.

Does the league allow one player to have a different colored uniform? Maybe we’ll have a rotating designated black jersey guy.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:42:54 +0000

I agree with that; McDyess is more reliable and a far better rebounder than Wallace, and would probably come cheaper.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:39:53 +0000

I don’t like Rasheed Wallace at all