Monster NBA deal

[shotglass]

Fox Sports Radio reported that the L.A. Times says the Garnett-to-Lakers deal is going through.

Four-team deal which, among other things, has Lamar Odom and Andrew Bynum going to the Pacers. Also involves the Celtics and T-Wolves first-round draft picks, 5 and 7.

Stay on the alert.

 

[imjustagirl2]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[Chi City 81]

Why would anyone make a deal to help the Lakers? So you're letting them keep Kobe, and giving them one of the 10 best players in the league? S-M-R-T.

 

[shotglass]

The latest thing on the Times Web site says the four-way deal broke down, and it's now back to direct one-on-one talks between the Lakers and T-Wolves.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Phew.

 

[Mmac]

A more conspiratorial sort might have suspicions about the dark hand of David Stern at work if a deal like this goes through.

Looks like a franchise-reviver for the big glamour market Lakers, as well as a dream deal for the League getting KG and Kobe playing together in the LA spotlight, but it looks like a depressing bummer of a deal for the small market midwestern franchises in Indy and Minny, who'd both lose their only all-star with nothing special in return.

 

[TyWebb]

Not going to happen.

 

[Songbird]

If it's the Lakers it'll happen. It always happens when the Lakers are involved.

 

[Mmac]

If it's the Lakers it'll happen. It always happens when the Lakers are involved.

Lemme think about that--Wilt, Kareem, McAdoo, Shaq, Malone, Payton. Veteran superstars who've not yet won a ring (although I guess Wilt & Kareem had 1) do historically seem to have a knack for getting themselves in one-sided trades that take them to LA, don't they? This Garnett deal would fit right in that pattern.

 

[93Devil]

Bill Simmons would have had a stroke if this deal would have happened. It could have mired the Celts for another decade.

 

[Idaho]

Sure wish AP would ship something on this so I can get a wire page put together.

 

[Chi City 81]

Sure wish AP would ship something on this so I can get a wire page put together.

Your paper doesn't subscribe to the McClatchy wire?

 

[Idaho]

I'm checking our cue and there's nothing there yet.

 

[Chi City 81]

I'm checking our cue and there's nothing there yet.

Interesting. Two stories, both from the L.A. Times, have moved across our wire. Want me to send via PM?

 

[Idaho]

weird. I see other McClatchy stories, but not one on the Garnett trade.

 

[Chi City 81]

Check your PM, Ides.

 

[Freelance Hack]

I like Bryant and Garnett, but does anybody else think these two might not be the dream combination that restores the Lakers' legacy?

 

[mike311gd]

I'd like to see them on Minnesota. But, we all know that would never happen.

 

[Norrin Radd]

So the Celtics were not thinking a Paul Pierce-Jermaine O'Neal pairing could make some noise in the mediocre East?

Fair enough.

The deal is dead. But ESPN's report on it mentioned that Kobe would still want out.

If that were the case . . . . he is indeed a moron.

 

[Angola!]

So, what were the particulars of the trade?