<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"><font color=""Black""><font size=""1""><font color=""Red"">Minnesota's Kevin Garnett reportedly is on the market,</font></font> but Paxson probably would have to package the pick and at least one of his team's core players ? Luol Deng, Ben Gordon, Andres Nocioni or Kirk Hinrich ? to make that happen.</font></div> <font color=""Black"">Well Lakers management better be ready to shop or he won't be on the Market for long. </font>
Hell the Lakers can't beat that offer. If I'm the Wolves, I'm asking for Hinrich, fillers to make it work, and the pick.
I honestly didn't believe we had a shot at KG unless he requested a trade here. I think that we could have a shot at Jermaine O'neal, but what would Indiana want for him besides Lamar Odom.
I don't care what Mitch has to do to get this done but he better. He already F'ed up the Artest deal he better not do the same to this one. Garnett would revitalize the Lakers and himself. Kobe and Garnett would compliment each other perfectly and are already good friends. Mitch better realize this and sell his soul to get this deal through.
Imagine the fear in any teams eyes when Kobe and KG stepped onto the floor, both wearing the purple and gold. What would it take? I hate to say it but Lamar probably would be the answer along with other pieces of course. I'm not sure I'm willing to let Lamar go. If he and Kobe can continue to develop as a duo the way they did at the end of this year, it could mean great things for the Lakers. The Lakers have to find a good solid group and stick with it and watch it grow. We'll just have to wait and see what happens, and hope the Bulls don't take KG.
are you kidding me??????? Let Lamar go; if that what its going to take to get Garnet.... Why would you even think about that; that its self is a no brainer.....
No, we are a second rate team. Teams like Portland and Toronto, along with the Timberwolves are third rate teams. The Timberwolves know that if KG comes to LA, there is a decent chance we will be a bigger force than the Lakers of the early 2000's. Especially when Kobe is edging closer to his peak.
Lamar is not just what it might take to get KG! you're guys whole team wont do it. I would love to see KG and Kobe together, but in minni is the only possible way. Lakers have no young or good pieces to give us. Lamar is such a huge waste of god given talent and thats all the lakers could have offered.
First off, KG's salary is 20 million dollars next year, 22 million the following year and 24 million the year after that. Basically the only way to do this trade is to trade Odom, who is scheduled to make 12.5 million and you still have to get near 17-18 million in the trade. Lamar Odom and Kwame Brown would get you that. Basically this is your team next year with their contracts.... Kobe 17.718 mil Brian Grant 15.57 mil Odom 12.489 mil Kwame 8.287 mil Mihm 4.218 mil McKie 2.762 mil Bynum 2.030 mil Cook 1.514 mil Walton 1.25 mil Sasha .973 mil Smush .798 mil Von Wafer(team option) .664 mil So basically Odom or Brian Grant have to be involved in any trade, unless you give up everyone. With the 25% rule you can add up to 16 million if you are just getting KG. Banks will be a FA, so that means that you would likely get him for the MLE if you do a sign and trade deal, so that means that you would have to add up at least 20 million. That just shows how unlikely this trade is and the fact that Lamar Odom would have to be involved, unless for some reason Minnesota would rather have Brian Grant. Also if you do manage to get KG, him and Kobe will combine for nearly 38 million dollars and the cap won't be any higher than 50 million, so that's 12 million if you want to stay under the cap for the other 13 players. So regardless of whether or not you trade Grant or Odom(more than likely Odom) you will be over the cap with just 3 players. Oh and for all of you people thinking that they could use the cap space, well they have about 36.2 million in other people(not with KG) already for the 2007 season with only 8 players, plus their high draft pick this year and likely high draft pick next year, it doesn't look like they will be under enough for it to really make a difference and get a max player. So Brian Grant's expiring deal isn't really good enough to entice them unless they do other trades to get other expiring deals. So basically it's not a very likely scenario to 1) Get KG and 2) Get KG without trading Odom. It's just a pipedream and it will likely stay that way.
Jermaine will be much easier to acquire. (1) He's expensive, but not as expensive as Garnett. (2) He's a great big man, but not like Garnett. (3) He'd be easier to pry away from the Pacers because we're in the Western Conference. I think a lineup of: Drafted PG, Kobe, Luke, Jermaine, Kwame would be sick. Kwame would thrive if he played with Jermaine. They used to train together in the off-season (not sure if they still do), and Kwame would man handle him I heard.
man this fantasy garnett thing is getting old the lakers wont even be able to trade no one for KG maybe if some other team like sixers can trade for AI and we all know lakers arent trading kobe
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting philip2136:</div><div class="quote_post">man this fantasy garnett thing is getting old the lakers wont even be able to trade no one for KG maybe if some other team like sixers can trade for AI and we all know lakers arent trading kobe</div> Sentence structure and punctuation go a long way in not just getting your point across, but also understood.
Why not 3-way with the Philadelphia 76ers, and have it so maybe Minny gets AI, who's gonna be traded anyways, Philly gets whatever the Lakers offer, and LA gets KG? Heck, even throw Chicago into the trade.
