At the time, it was "Gasol for Kwame" That was highway robbery. Now that we've seen how Marc Gasol has developed.. It changes perspectives ie what we see now in the poll results.
Umm, I'm pretty sure that's the question everyone around the league is asking right now. I can't answer it. You're assuming that the most logical trade will always occur, which is highly ironic given your position on this very trade. You want me to guess? The Lakers didn't want him in the West and Orlando didn't want to be in literally the same situation they're in with Howard.
imo...what most are asking is why they didn't get better picks and young players back and more cap space "ala the rumored Morey offers, that included both a Bynum 3-way or direct Howard to Hou 2-way. I don't recall rumors being Bynum to ORL, because that would have happened long ago, right? I thought the majority of rumors were ORL going full rebuild with a pile of youth and picks...similar to what Utah did when they traded Deron...no? Favors, Harris and two, 1st round picks that turned out to be quite good.
Lakers get great players that win Knicks get the great players that do nothing but score, b****, and lose It is quite amazing.
thanks for the laugh. fakers were scared of getting dominated by bynum and possibly not being able to make it out of the western conference en route to the finals.....because of andrew bynum :grin:
Depends on how you define lopsided. LA gave up more than they did in the Gasol trade. But the Magic got far less in return than the Grizzlies.
Right, he was asking why the Rockets didn't get him and that indirectly means why didn't Orlando want our "rebuild package".
Orlando got back Aaron Afflalo who is a terrific young shooting guard Moe Harkless who has building block type talent and would likely be a top ten lottery pick in next years draft. Three 1st round picks none great Cap space and their own 1st round picks will be high lottery for the next few years. Plus, the Lakers had to give up Bynum which trumps all traiding pieces available.
not really. No one thought that at the time. Only in hindsight now. Even still, Magic have 4 first rounders (Harkless is a rookie). Saying none of those can possibly produce a good player/players equal to Marc Gasol is not really fair. Yes, they should have gotten more, but the Grizzlie trade was Pau for Kwama at the time.
so your current argument is that they got shut down 2 years ago by tyson chandler. and your previous argument was that they didn't want to send bynum to a western conference team in a multi-team trade in which they were getting dwight howard back because implicitly they would be scared of bynum dominating dwight howard in the playoffs and possibly blocking their nba finals berth. okaayyy.
I'm not making any argument, just guessing. At least my guesses make some sense, however little that may be. You are literally the only one here (hell, the only one anywhere) who's marginalizing Bynum so much, so I don't see how you can belittle my opinion as being ridiculous.
hold up now, your guess was that the fakers didn't want to trade bynum to a western conference team. ...that the fakers with dwight howard would be scared of bynum in the west. yes, this opinion is indeed simply ridiculous.
This trade wasn't lopsided for LA. They gave up the 2nd best C in basketball and a pick, and took back a bad contract, for the best C in basketball. Bynum is one hell of an asset. Not their fault Orlando let him get sent somewhere else and didn't get **** in return.
Orlando had the most valuable piece and ended up with the crappiest deal. In reality it was Arrofalo for Howard, not Bynum. If you cant see that is beyond lopsided, you can't be helped
It has nothing to do with scared, it's about the odds. Bottom line, the Lakers literally have a better chance of winning an NBA championship with Bynum in Philly. So my guess is actually a fact. Your opinion is just your opinion.
Yep, he's focusing on what the Lakers gave up and not on what Orlando got in return. Let's put it this way, I was so sick of the Dwightmare that I was like f it, they should just get raped by the Nets, but this goes well beyond that, this wasn't rape, this was a gang bang and it made me sick to see the team with the top 5 superstar getting the less value in return.
hold up kiddo, since you value bynum and his elite impact so much, why are you so quick discount that bynum wouldn't take philly to the finals and just block the fakers' chance of winning an nba championship there? :grin:
For the Lakers it's Dwight Howard for Andrew Bynum and a late 1st round pick. Not as lopsided as you may think. For the Magic, it's Dwight Howard for 3 late first round picks and garbage. What a dumb trade.
