this is what struck me the most (can be found in realgm.com)</p> "With the Lakers, he's always going to have the opportunity to attract players. A free agent is willing to go to a Laker uniform. Everybody wants to go to L.A. -- KG would want to go there,'' Arenas said of Kevin Garnett. "Jason Kidd would want to go there. Jason Kidd is up next season, right? He's a free agent [in 2009]. Why don't you wait? Maybe he'll just come over there. You never know.''</p> he's right! kobe should wait! JO, Kidd, Brand will be FA's soon... wait one more year bro! just one!</p> </p>
"I've been doing it my whole career -- when I had Larry [Hughes, who averaged 22 points in 2004-05 alongside Jamison's 19.6); Antawn, Caron," Arenas said. "I don't see Dwyane [Wade] doing that. I don't see Kobe doing that. I didn't see AI doing that. I don't see LeBron [James] doing it -- there's not another scorer with him scoring 20.</p> "I mean, AI did it [last year with 24.8 points for Denver after his trade from Philadelphia] because Carmelo already was having 30, so they never started from the beginning where two other players were averaging [close to] 20 points. And the way I can do that is because I push the ball so much that we're getting opportunities. It's not like we're taking 60 shots and I'm taking 30 of them. I took 25 shots [in Wednesday's season-opening overtime loss at Indiana] and we had 99 attempts. Antawn had 25 shots. Caron had 19 shots. So your Big Three is still getting their opportunities.</p> "Nobody realizes how valuable I really am to teams. It's like, 'Oh, we don't know if he can be a point guard.' Well, every guard out there can't be me. But if I lose my speed, I can be them.''</p> He laughed at what he'd just said, then repeated it to show he was serious. "If I lose my speed getting to the basket, I can be them. I can be a spot-up shooter. I can come off a pick-and-roll and make passes. I can reach their peak; they can't be what I am.''</p> LOL!!! Arenas isnt even that young... and id have to disagree with te points thing though... Kobe of course averaged 20+ with shaqs 25+, wade 25+ with shaqs 19+?, Amare with 26 and marion with 20+</p>
The problem is thanks toMitch, the Lakers will have no cap space to sign any big free agents. The only chance to add one of those guysis to convince their current owners to trade them to the Lakers prior to them walking and again, thanks to Mitch, the Lakers have no trade bait unless Bynum, Farmar and Crit start to show some potential.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (whatthef?)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> The problem is thanks toMitch, the Lakers will have no cap space to sign any big free agents. The only chance to add one of those guys to to convince their current owners to trade them to the Lakers prior to them walking and again, thanks to Mitch, the Lakers have no trade bait unless Bynum, Farmar and Crit start to show some potential.</p> </div></p> Bingo. I'm starting to wonder if NBA players actually understand how the salary cap works and how difficult it is to get deals done with all the complex contracts and rules. Gilbert Arenas is a video game junkie so I'm sure he's spent plenty of time making GM decisions on his XBOX. However, those games aren't real life and Arenas doesn't know what he's talking about.</p> </p>
