Comments on: Money & Minutes, They Still Matter

By: shannonlover12

shannonlover12 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:22:50 +0000

I may be just a woman, but they’ve already signed
Barnes and theo something to play. That must mean
that Shannon Brown will not be playing for the
lakers. And if that happens, there goes all the
excitement, the explosive energy, and dunks that
come with Shannon. I’m telling you all this now, the
Lakers are going to rue the day when Shannon becomes a player for the other teams (whichever one
he goes to). Because he’s still got a lot of time, energy
and youth on his side. They’re going to kick themselves something awful. Good Luck !

By: Busby

Busby — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:07:50 +0000

Bring Brown back!!!!! to back up Kobe ASAP not sold on sasha just yet, those 2-3 games during the playoffs wasn’t enough for me to accept him being our backup 2 guard, and besides signing brown wouldn’t hurt us any seeing how we own his bird right and he’s a upgrade over sasha any day of the week, and i just feel brown’s re-signing would be the iceing on the cake for us.

fisher/blake
bryant/vujacic/brown?????(Hopefully)
artest/barnes/ebanks/walton
gasol/odom/caracter
bynum/ratliff

But all in all hugh upgrades this offseason great job Jerry & Mitch

By: JeremyLA24

JeremyLA24 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:29:31 +0000

Zephid, its all good. Especially now that our name is not even in the discussion if he gets traded. I guess the news is so dry about the Lakers recently that I’ve reverted to spending an hour on “trade machine” just to get my Laker fix.

Hopefully that Matt Barnes story follows through. He could really steal some minutes away from Artest and Kobe if they seem a little tired through the season.

By: DY

DY — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:03:17 +0000

For what it’s worth, Adrian Woj…from Yahoo tweets “unless Cleveland raises multi-year offer that starts around $3.5M, Matt Barnes will sign a 1-year $1.7M deal with Lakers, sources tell Y!”

Woj has been on the money this summer (and killing it with his LBJ articles). If this is true, that would be awesome to lock Barnes up for only 1 year, at $1.7M!

By: Zephid

Zephid — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:11:20 +0000

41, Bynum will probably be included even if he does have a healthy year. He’s the only Laker who’s young, talented, has potential, and has a pretty reasonable contract. Now if he has an All-Star year, that may change. But rebuilding teams are always looking to get younger and get potential.

Jeremy, I read your comment, but I think it’s more appropriate to nip this one in the bud. Until we have news that the Lakers are actually in discussions with the Hornets, it’s best to leave this one alone.

By: Igor Avidon

Igor Avidon — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:44:29 +0000

CP3 wants out of NO – wants Lakers/Magic/Knicks. I know it’s a far-fetched dream, but to get that kind of a player in his early prime? Oh my, I’m drooling.

By: the other Stephen

the other Stephen — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:42:18 +0000

congo cash don’t play for the money, y’all. he plays for the game!

and for late game taco tix.

By: Rodman

Rodman — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:25:56 +0000

So long Josh Powell (like he will read this…) Your contributions to two championship teams won’t be forgotten. You have always seemed like a true professional and a great teammate.

Wish you all the best in Atlanta.

By: harold

harold — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:44:00 +0000

It was in the Yahoo Woj article. Supposedly Riley set up a meeting between Jordan and LeBron and talked LeBron into this 23 thing.

If anything, I think that shows who LeBron is. He doesn’t want to be ‘the man’ anymore. He has said that when he discussed the 20-30 pt thing, and I think the 23 statement was in a way revealing too.

As cocky as Kobe is, I’d much rather that my player want to beat 23, choosing 24…

By: Plan9FOS

Plan9FOS — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:26:39 +0000

JeremyLA24 – I don’t think the article said they were talking about contracts.

The point was that the old veteran Riley was manipulating LeBron every step of the way.
Riley saw that LeBron at 25, is still young and naive about some things. And so are his childhood friends who make up his marketing Co.
Riley did several things to play to and manipulate LeBron.
He is crafty, this Sauron.