Kobe to Portland? Oden, Randolph to be Lakers?? (updated 5/27)

He seems to hate losing but just won't ask for a trade whats keeping him from asking for a trade.

 

hey thats a good idea, hill is an expeirienced veteran who knows how to play good, even though he is old he can still do his thing, then we need to get mo williams or steve blake from the FA and a better center like magloire,haywood(he's not great but he is better than kwame), roy hibbert (aquire on draft day), bogut, JO, and i cant think of anymore but those centers are the one's i like for our team.

 

I don't think there is any truth behind this rumor. Almost every contender and the teams with huge media coverage have linked Grant Hill with their team. After talking with Grant, it seems like he wants to finish his career in Orlando. He really likes the rest of the guys on the team and I think he feels like he owes it to the team, city and fans after we paid him so much money and it backfired because of his injuries. I think he will finish his career with the Magic and right now I think he is determining whether or not he wants to play one more year in Orlando or retire and hit the broadcast booth.

 

Even though he can be a great player, is adding someone whose history is injury? He'd have to be bought cheap then, because what we need is a big man first and a PG second.

 

I would welcome Hill, but I don't want to have to use the MLE on him. He's got some bit of risk behind him because you never know about the health of his knees. I just want the Lakers to get some upgrade in the post. We need some offense down there and Kwame doesn't cut it. We also are in dire need of fixing the point guard issue. Smush should be gone by all means and I don't think Farmar is ready to be the full time starter yet.

 

This is a bit off topic but the Grant Hill rumor reminded me of this. Whatever happened to the Scottie Pippen rumors?

 

<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Scottie owes $5Million to a plane company he invested in and the company went belly up. I'm not even sure the Lakers worked him out.

What ever happened to Penny Hardaway to the Lakers is what I'm curious about? He should still have some games left in him, and I can't imagine him being worse than the players the Lakers had in the backcourt last year.</div>

I can get down with that A big PG would be great I think Penny has a few games left. But who would the Lakers rather take Penny or Hill. They both have their obvious good points and bad Penny's being has he got any game left and Hill's being will he mash up his legs again?
Off topic...will Shammond Williams be back next season?

 

I'd pass on Grant Hill. He has all the makings of our previous MLE busts. Old and injury prone, just like Aaron McKie and Vlade Divac. I'd take him for cheap, no question asked, but I'd much rather spend our MLE on a point guard, like Charlie Bell or Steve Blake

 

^WOW. Kinda ridiculous, but hey it's close to the off-season. Expect to hear all kinds of rumors.

Kobe to Portland?

 

it would be funny if while we were all laughing about it, kobe got traded to portland. so say it actually happened (which it wont) how would you guys feel about oden.

 

This whole Kobe getting traded thing isn't as far fetched as everyones talking. Look at ESPN.COM

"Bryant told ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher that he wants the Lakers to bring West back to the organization and give him full authority. If the Lakers don't want to do that, Bryant said he wants to be traded."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2884339

 

I tend to believe what Kobe posted on his blog at KB24.com rather than BSPN. Trying to blow things out of proportion.

 

Would you guys be adverse to Kobe for Durant and Randolph? That would be your future and you're building like you did with Kobe and Shaq. Not to say Bynum is as well established as Shaq was when he came out, but if he is as untouchable as the reports say, why not?