[Yahoo Sports]Memphis owner now questions value of Gasol deal

Hey, more proof that he knows nothing about basketball.

 

More proof to anyone who's head isn't stuck in the ground that the Pau "trade" wasn't a trade; it was a giveaway. One of the stupidest deals ever made handed a team that would have barely made the playoffs into an NBA finalist and probable NBA champion.

Before I hear it again: You can tell me to "get over it" any number of times, but I won't. This lopsided deal turned the Western Conference and the NBA upside down and gave the Lakers a championship.

 

I seriously LOL'd at that. He calls Scola a center and wonder's why he did the trade for Brown.

/r****d

 

This article tells me what I basically already knew....that the Grizzles gave away Gasol in hopes that they would tank, and get the number 1 pick. The fact that he alludes to having the worst record twice as much as anyone else, yet never getting the first pick obviously reveals his sour grapes over the system that is in place to ensure that teams like his DON'T tank. Ironic, isn't it, Mr. Heisley. I hope you never get the first pick, you sandbagger.

 

Maybe this is the Grizzlies way of telling an eff you to the rest of the teams that were trying to lowball them for Gasol. Not only are those teams not getting Gasol, but those teams and the rest of NBA are going to be subjected to watching the Lakers go back as NBA perennial powerhouse and them regularly going to the Finals.

I really have to at Pops being the one making the public comment about the trade, the Spurs and him don't exactly have clean hands on their rise to 4 titles. Karma is a b**** Pops, how does that middle finger look from lalaland. Like he'd turn down that deal also if all he had to give up to get Gasol is his scrub players.

 

Could there be a bigger lowball than KWAME BROWN?

And for the writer or Memphis owner to suggest that the Al Jefferson or the #5 pick in the draft is anywhere close to Kwame and a bunch of #30 picks are equal is absolutely insane and irresponsible. Al Jefferson might be the most underrated player in the NBA the way he is overlooked. If the Celtics didn't have to give him up for Garnett, they'd be the surefire NBA champs right now.

 

Or how about just reading it as clear as can be: Heisley and Wallace are morons and shouldn't be owning/running an NBA franchise. There are no "eff you"s or trying to screw over other teams. No, the only eff you that was administered was to the few fans the Grizz had left for having to put up with such an inept owner and an even more clueless GM.

 

Agreed. Historically speaking, this will be the most impactful trade in the modern era. I'm one of the biggest Kobe fans on this board, but there's no way that guy should be in any discussion as better than Jordan. But that is what this trade has done and will do. It changed history.

 

Heisley is the moron. And I still believe Jerry West had something to do with it and now Heisley and Wallace are trying to cover their a..es.

I sure hope this does away with all the geniuses that were questioning me when I said there were better offers on the table and that a lot of teams would have trumped the Lakers offer. I sure hope this does away with all the geniuses that thought Memphis got the best deal they could find for Gasol.

I agree with A3PO. Congratulations Heisley for giving the Lakers a trophy.

I am going to be rooting my tail off for the Boston Celtics, a team I do not like right now, just so that I don't have to see Kobe and Gasol kissing the trophy. Please, Boston, put these guys down.

And I hope that Memphis folds instead of sells and Heisley loses his shorts on it.

 

I give this analogy:

I have a valuable piece of property but I'm in a bind and need to get rid of it. I get a few offers for it but all of them are lowball offers of what I want for it. And the same people who gave the first lowball offer keep coming back with basically the same lowball offers with maybe a few changes to it. I'm so pissed off cause I know those people know that I'm in a bind and they are just trying to take advantage of the situation. So I suddenly say eff it and give the property to a whole new offer from a new group with a ridiculous offer, the only thing that I know about that group is that I have peers that were close to that group (and would appreciate me for doing this deal), and that I know that my property is best suited and will be used to it's full capacity with that group, as opposed to the other groups who might use my property incorrectly and let it go to waste.

I've seen this before, where someone will take another person's lower offer just to spite others who tried to lowball them.

And to clarify my last part, Gasol is in the perfect system to fully utilize his skills, he is perfect for the triangle. I doubt the Bulls would do go anywhere even if they obtained Gasol.

Wallace knew he was being screwed, he was doing many things with this trade: 1) carry out his owner's objective of cutting payroll, 2) giving ode and thank you to his mentor Jerry West who gave him the GM job, 3) giving the middle finger to the other teams who lowballed him.

Heisley, well he's an owner. They, in general, know nothing about basketball.

 

Spite is an awful reason to jeopardize an entire franchise.

 

I completely agree with you. heisley is lying through his teeth in that article if he thinks the bulls or others didn't want to part with solid players for gasol.

 

Even further proof this guy knows nothing about basketball.

Despite KG's success in Boston you can argue that Minnesota still got the better end of that deal. KG, much like his current teammates Allen and Pierce, had proven time and time again to be entirely incapable of carrying a team by themselves. The solution? Trade those guys to the EAST on the SAME team. Sure, it makes boatloads of sense from Boston's end but you're completely oblivious if you ignore the fact that Minnesota made out like bandits too.

The point is everybody got what they wanted. Boston gets star that helps put them over the top. Minnesota gets their 23-year-old franchise player, a top notch role player in Gomes, a couple first-rounders and the financial freedom to be a key player in free agency after Ratliff's nearly $12 million comes off the books.

 

To Memphis's owner:
just because there are other r****ded deals out there, it doesn't mean you are less r****ded.

 

Lets face it, he is the biggest dog in sports at the moment. There is nothing he can say that will redeem his place in NBA history for basically showing that he has no drive to win.

 

I dunno...something still is fishy. And that is like the worst reasoning ever to pull a NBA trade; make sure your franchise loses so another can win, what kind of effed up logic is that? Not only that, but it looked like Chicago had at least a credible offer. Maybe Memphis was pissed that Gordon and Deng weren't a part of it...but wow, that's a significant chunk of quality players, including two promising young PFs in Noah and Thomas to replace Gasol and draft picks that would go at least a bit higher then those the Lakers gave the Grizzlies.

Seriously, either it's a conspiracy or Memphis as an organization is just plain and simple, r****ded.

 

Les wasn't happy about the Rudy Gay straight away he said they should've gotten more (picks?).

It took Heisley an entire season to realise? He's just covering his backside.

 

So on one hand they don't like being the laughing stock organization of the NBA (it's impressive to supplant the Clippers in that regard), but on the other hand they want to slash salary because they're losing $$, and tank games in hopes of landing a star player to make $$. You know Heisley would love to take Mike Miller's salary off the books, but he doesn't want to look like an idiot again.

 

lol i read this yesterday, hes pissed because he never gets a top pick in the draft and thinks its a conspiracy!