They would have been better off with Mike Brown. As sad as that is(or not, fuck da lakers).
Well, I truly hope so. Just squeeze into the playoffs and then get clobbered. That would be great in my book as they fall into that list of teams that I truly hate in the NBA. I'll also enjoy all that restless mob action in Lakerville too after they are unceremoniously kicked from the playoffs by some run of the mill team. We'll have our pick exchange and they'll be discussing their 3rd coach in 2 years. It will be glorious. :chuckles:
Since we're still unsure whether or not the Lakers pick is lottery-protected or not, I hope that the Lakers continue to suck, miss the playoffs, and we get their lottery pick, and it fucking WINS the lottery because Grant is some magical genius who got them to not protect it because "how could the Lakers miss the playoffs?" How sweet would that be? :chuckles:
Shoes that is almost correct, but if we swap with the lakers, the suns get what ever pick we swap with them this year.
We are sure now. The pick is lottery protected. It's irrelevant to the Lakers anyway though. Here's how it works. If the pick ends up #15-30 it'll be sent to the Cavs, if the pick is #1-14 it'll go to the Suns. If the Cavs get the pick this year then the Suns get the Lakers 2014 pick. If the Suns get the pick this year then the Cavs are shit out of luck and the Lakers don't owe us anything anymore.
I'm still not sure. I've seen multiple things (RealGM, couple of writers) saying the pick is protected, but i've also seen someone say it's unprotected through a source with the Lakers. We won't know for sure until it happens, but it likely won't matter either way because they will likely make the 8 seed.
To date, the ONLY person who has said it was unprotected is Sam The Bullshit Whisperer, and he later backtracked, because that guy always reports the first thing he hears, regardless of whether it's true or not. The pick is indeed protected.
You can read about all the history regarding this and how confusion about the pick started in the first place right here:
http://www.fearthesword.com/2012/12...e-2013-draft-pick-in-the-ramon-sessions-trade
Its funny, D'Antoni completely took Jamison and Hill out of the rotation yesterday. Instead, he went with a 7 man rotation.. 8 if you count Devin Ebanks' 4 minutes.
This guy is a mess, the moniker 'master of panic' needs to be passed down to this guy.
What is the thought process of playing Pau 30+ minutes on his first night back? Kobe 43 minutes. Metta 37. Just wait til Steve Nash comes back and D'Antoni tries to play him 48 minutes. This team is bad now, nothing good is coming from burning the old guys out.
A 7 man rotation, with one of the oldest teams in the NBA, 25 games in. Gotta be a joke.
Called it. Nash played 41 minutes in his first game back from the leg injury. What an incompetent coach.
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Kobe Bryant has played over 40 minutes in 10 straight games. He played 7 such games, including playoffs, in the 2010-11 season under Phil.