kobe for yao! yao needs to be in la. bigger chinese population. tmac and kobe will run havoc with rick adlemans offense
Never will happen.........but kinda of interesting scenario....... Granted that leaves Big Jake/Sextumbo as our big men...........
and who would be our big men?????, Mutumbo and Howard.... GREAT IDEA!!! You should apply to become a GM. Let's keep the guy with major back problems who's already lost a step in his game at the age of 27!!! SMART!
More like Melo/AI v2 and we all saw how that worked out... Give me the slow-footed Yao and the jumpshot-prone McGrady any day.
LA might actually entertain that, they are in a low leverage situation. Yao would be way more enticing than anything the Knicks could offer. Bynum is excellent trade bait to land them an all-star caliber guard to compliment Yao and Odom. And the Rockets would have the scariest swing position since Jordan/Pippen. Adelman's offense is similar to the triangle. BUT... Nah. I wouldn't do it. Kobe is just... Not right. I expect Dallas to make the biggest push, and the Lakers will push for a Chicago trade. They don't want Kobe in the west and they will want young mid-level contract guys. Oh and Kobe won't be playing for Seattle, no way in hell. So scratch the Durant ideas.
It would be a free agent or maybe Aaron Gray at center. The PF would be Battier. Its Adelman's lineup now. Not JVG's.
well the problem is Lakers don't want TMAC. They'd rather start rebuilding process. So if you don't want Yao for Kobe, then forget the whole deal. Lakers would not take TMAC for Kobe.
If they trade him it will be to the Eastern Conference. If Paxson is open-minded, my guess is the Bulls are far and away the most likely destination. Hopefully the Lakers would take Gordon+Tyrus Thomas+Nocioni(SnT) plus draft picks. The Bulls should hold on to Deng. They shouldn't give up Deng+Gordon or Deng+Hinrich.
This has nothing to do with the Rockets, other than weakening a team in the Western conference (which would happen if he went to New York or Boston).
This really will be a crazy offseason. I don't know that the trade happens or not, but the drama surrounding it is going to be just as engrossing as Britney/Paris/Lohan drama. Can't tell you how fast I called up the Lakers forums to see the strom within the fanbase. This may go down as the biggest back stabbing of all time. Evan
I think Kobe will want to do Dallas. Cuban will spend big money for a ring and Dallas has Nowitzki. Besides, Dallas has enough semi-all-stars to satisfy the Lakes.
Kobe goes to Chicago, changes his number to 23, shaves his head, and continues to stick his tongue out. His Fatal Attraction/Single White Female (single black male?) emulation comes to fruition. He also demands Craig Ehlo to come out of retirement and join the Cavs so he can hit a game winner against them.
You are probably right they won't, but that's all we got, giving up Yao would just be silly...Kobe / Tback have the same game(playing style), having them both on the same team would not work. The guy making max money with injury problems should be the one traded cause that's the asset that's holding the team down. Let's face it, we are top heavy, we don't have much other than Yao/T-Mac, if they can't play at the superstar level that we expect then they become the problem. All I've seen is Yao improve every year, getting rid of him would not be ideal, however Tracy on the other hand has been going downhill, even though he has become a better floor general, he has lost the offensive dominance he once had, and that is just too costly for a team that's built around two players. That is why he's got to go...Kobe is everthing Tback once was.
I'd throw in a pick and an expiring contract instead of Juwan. Kobe and T-Mac would be interestig to see. My thoughts on other concerns brought up about this: They will be nothing like Melo/AI. T-Mac has said it himself he wants to be more of a playmaker, he will have no problem feeding the ball to Kobe and rack up 9-10 assists a game; unlike AI. Both AI and Melo want to score. Maybe we won't have a dominant big man, but i remember the Bulls winning with Luc Longley and Horace Grant. I'm ok with Bynam as the center with Kobe and T-mac on the perimeter.
