Shaq leaving. Is there any truth to it? Good Article. Is there any truth to this I got this from a well respected website. Jerry Buss is going to break up the Lakers or the state of Colorado is going to break up 'em up, but, either way, say your goodbyes. Because the exits are coming in droves. Phil Jackson is already gone, and, the truth is, Shaquille O'Neal wants to join him. It looks like Buss, the Lakers' owner, has made his choice: Kobe stays, the other Hall of Famers go. In other words, he is not averse to trading Shaq and is willing to build his franchise around a narcissist who's on trial for rape, doesn't make his teammates better and is in denial over all of it. Buss apparently will stop at nothing to keep Kobe off the open market, and I've been told that means he will offer Bryant partial ownership down the road. In the short term, he'll at least offer Kobe a quasi-general manager job, meaning Kobe can help pick the new coach, and, ostensibly, Shaq's replacement. Shaq knew this was coming, has known it for months, because he's refused to take the pay cut Buss wants him to take, the pay cut Kevin Garnett bent over backwards and took in Minnesota. Shaq says the Laker organization asked him to recruit Karl Malone last summer, asked him to recruit Gary Payton, and that it was understood they'd take care of him down the road. But they're not taking care of him, and, I'm not surprised that today he's just demanded a trade. He told me in late April he was resigned to the fact that it was time to go. "Well, I've seen it before," he said as we sat alone in the team's El Segundo training complex. "I've seen it before. It happens with the Ewings and the Dominiques. But give me enough respect and enough courtesy and let me know. And I'll make it easier for everybody. "But just don't tell me one thing and do another. Because you insult my intelligence like that. Just tell me. I ain't tripping. But the good thing about this country we live in, somebody will want this. Someone will want the Diesel. I've got about five, six good years left in me. Because the stuff that I'm doing, I still got a whole lot of stuff in me. I'm not even allowed to really take over the game how I want to. So I'm just out there playing on fumes right now." Shaq says the Lakers vowed to get him 'whatever you need' after recruiting Malone and Payton. O'Neal has a lot of beefs with the franchise. They are, in no particular order:
Shaq should go back to orlando and then you know tmac will stay bplus they will have okefor at pf that would like a laker team wouldnt it?
id rather have them 4 at lakers them a kobe team honestly. I can believe Shaq wants to follow phil. Where did you get this article from?
I guess its true then. But honestly, if i were shaq with Buss wanting to build round Kobe and Kupchacks remarks ... i would not want to stay and go somewhere else.
but if they trade shaq he is a big comodity right now and there are alot of that would want to take him so you know the lakers are gonna get good players and picks for him
yeah i was saying the orlando magic if the nets had room for him that would be great. cause you know his dad lives there so that would be cool. Imaging trading kenyon and draft pick for him
it's this article right? http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?id=1824721 Don't forget to provide the link next time buddy. Yeah Shaq finally unloads all of his Kobe and contract frustration. This article made me a believer that Shaq is as good as gone.
It'll be interesting to see where he goes if he does at all. I imagine the Lakers would lilke to get some sort of a center in exchange, cause otherwise that spot will be just about empty for them.
yeah espn was saying only the big teams can offer for shaq, they were saying Pacers would possible give up artest, jermaine, croshere for shaq magic would give up grant hill, juwan howard, and somebody else, dallas mavs has alot of player to give up, and sacremento
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting NJNetz:</div><div class="quote_post">yeah espn was saying only the big teams can offer for shaq, they were saying Pacers would possible give up artest, jermaine, croshere for shaq magic would give up grant hill, juwan howard, and somebody else, dallas mavs has alot of player to give up, and sacremento</div> LMAO, if that's the case, then that basically equates to Vince, Bosh, and a 1st round pick for Shaq... Nowitzki and Jamison for Shaq... Webber and Stojakovic for Shaq. Those are crazy trades, and it wouldn't benefit any of the teams. The Lakers needs to atleast give up some draft picks or scrubs too so the trades don't look out of the blue.
I agree with you that when they said on espn flat out jermaine artest croshere i was like damn thats alot for nothing. I'm not saying shaqs nothing but the lakers would have to offer more
