<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>It turns out that Vladimir Radmanovic lied to the Lakers about how he got injured last week. The forward is out around eight weeks with a separated right shoulder.He initially claimed to have slipped on some ice while walking with his hands in his pockets.But Friday evening Radmanovic released the following statement via the Lakers:?First of all I?d like to apologize to my teammates, coaches, Lakers management and Lakers fans for initially lying about the circumstances of the injury to my shoulder last weekend. I?d like to, however, come forward and set the record straight at this time. The truth is that I hurt myself in a fall while snowboarding. Being young and sometimes immature, I initially panicked and made up a false story about how I hurt myself. However, over the past few days my conscience has been bothering me terribly. I am not a dishonest person and could no longer live with this deception. Therefore, I came forward today and told the truth to the Lakers. It is just as important to me though, to be honest with Lakers fans and the public in general, therefore I am making this statement and apology. I can?t express enough how deeply sorry I am, not only for the activity that led to my injury, but also for the initial deception of my story. I hope for everyone?s understanding and forgiveness. I vow to work as hard as possible to rehabilitate my shoulder and rejoin my teammates as soon as possible and to help us become a team that Lakers fans can be proud of.?InsideHoops.com right now is examining the possibility that this could give the Lakers the option of voiding his contract. If another media outlet beats us to the punch we'll quote their report on this page in the next few minutes.Pure InsideHoops.com speculation here: While Radmanovic probably did have a guilty conscience, as he said above, it's also possible that someone witnessed him getting hurt. So not only would he have to maintain a lie, but he'd also have to constantly worry about someone coming forward who saw what really happened. It seems no one did, but you never know who comes out of the woodwork.Anyway, good that the truth came out.The Lakers don't have much depth, and Radmanovic is certainly better than any currently-available free agents. I predict the team fines him, a bunch of funny articles come out mocking him a bit, and that's the end of it.</div>Missing 8 weeks from a snowboard injury? That has to suck....
Yeah, this was pretty obvious. Everyone here in Los Angeles knew he was lying. I listened to the radio the day he announced his injury and no one believed his story about carrying coffee and slipping on ice. Vlad Rad is a 'space cadet'.
Ice from snowboarding?Hey stay hurd Radman. We found out that Shammond can play so take your time coming back. Or be like Chris Mihm for that matter.
That's a damn shame. He plays like sh*t the entire year and then starts to show signs of being a real player, then gets hurt doing something he's not supposed to be doing.
Just another player trying to protect his contract... he probably has a clause in there that says no snowboarding (or skiing) and he didn't want his contract f'd up.Would've been a blessing for the Lakers though, to drop him & then pick up someone else w/ the free money.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Would've been a blessing for the Lakers though, to drop him & then pick up someone else w/ the free money.</div>Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. Lakers are over the cap.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (KobeBryant_24 @ Feb 24 2007, 03:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>We should cut him and sign me!</div>Will you stop spamming the boards, please?
I don't think he was spamming I think he was just joking anyway I say we should release this guy Vlad or trade him during the Off season.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Devlin @ Mar 2 2007, 10:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I thought the fine he got was a bit exessive.</div>IMO his fine was too low. They should have taken away all his pay for the rest of this season or at least for all the time he is out.
Nah, I thought $500,000 is more than enough and wills end out the message. He has played most of the seaosn, and deserved to be paid for most of the season. Half a million is a LOT of money for your average NBA player like Vlad is.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nitro1118 @ Mar 3 2007, 07:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Nah, I thought $500,000 is more than enough and wills end out the message. He has played most of the seaosn, and deserved to be paid for most of the season. Half a million is a LOT of money for your average NBA player like Vlad is.</div>Yeh its not like he is getting a pay check a big as a player like Kobe's.
Oh please. Vlad is the 4th highest player on this team right now. Brian Grant's contract is killing us...thank god that will be gone by next season.BTW Phil Jackson said that $ 500,000 was not the actual amount he was fined and that the LA Times pretty much guessed like throwing a dart on the dart board and just saying a random number. He said Vlad was fined around that number but not exactly $500,000.
Ok...4th highest paid player on the team. I do not know exactly how much, but I'm guessing around 25 million for next few years? Even though it doesn't seem like a dent in their paycheck to us average folk, half a million dollars is a ton of money. Will it stop him from buying the nice cars, houses, etc..? No. Will it force him to go homeless? No. But it definately is a lot of money to lose for a fairly average role player.
