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I think Boris could be a poor mans Artest and we should hold on to him(even though I'd rather have Howard) and he's cheap. I haven't seem him much the last few games because I just can't take watching this team for more than a few minutes at a time...but the statline is good. Did he defend Carter at all last night? I know Diaw's a rookie... but he seems like the best option to defend a guy like Carter...Although getting ruffed up too much early in his career could have it's effects confidence wise. When I see him though I can't understand why he isn't a better scorer...He doesn't look like he lacks confidence at all...

theo is a role player that some people try to throw out as some top notch core player. I think we need a center that is cheap and can just play alittle minutes to share with Nazr...And the team take can work on rebuilding the team with some exciting young defensive players.

I like the motion offense, but you need players to make smart choices. A in-out game should be more simple for these brainless players....but coaches like to stick to their guns.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1678850 I have my doubts that it's an white women or even a white man. I think it COULD be a black man that hates IR relationships.

I heard a rumor(hes possibly a troll) that would send Reef/ Chris Crawford to Boston for Tony Battie/Eric Williams and Chris Mills.

The Kings aren't talented enough and they are always soft. You've blah blah blah that the Kings would beat the Lakers every year and they haven't done it. THe Spurs got lucky last year and met a bunch of injuried teams. Nobody should even take the Spurs championship last year seriousally. It isn't like the Kings are deep. They have Bobby Jackson and nothing else. THe Lakers starting lineup is FAR better than the Kings. Payton/Bibby=Payton Kobe/Peja=Kobe George/Christie=Christie by a small margin Malone/Webber=Webber by a small margin Shaq/Brad Miller-Please Both benches are weak now. Fisher and Bobby Jackson aren't that much difference...

He would not resign Nique, Harper because he was too cheap to pay that extra million. " That proves my point why he'd rather have NO contract than a slighty cheaper JT. "He took an allstar Maurice Taylor and turned him over to free agency because he would not pay the man. " Maurice Taylor was never an allstar.lol In fact, he doesn't even produce that much. He was and always will be an undersized PF that doesn't rebound and he's hurt all the time. I wouldn't have paid him either. "He let it be known that he would NOT match Miller last year by midseason because he said... I don't want to pay.. " I wou;dn't have paid Miller what he's getting either. Denver is winning because of Earl Boykins and not Andre Miller. "is favorite all time player was Lamar Odom. He made no bones about that. He would say that Odom would always be a Clipper. However, when Miami gave Odom the frontloaded contract, he refused to match it." It also seemed like they was going to keep Odom until he continued to whine about wanting to go to Miami... The Clipps are a very long shot for the playoffs. QRich is due somewhere around a max contract" He's not going to get it....NBA salary cap.

Agreed 100% with Chillz. That's why it's so hard to watch this flawed team the Hawks have. I've never seen a worse display of "pro basketball" since I started watching.

hillzatl your dreaming. Players in the 80s may have been more disciplined, better coached or play better as a team, but just like all sports players just get more talented as time goes by. How could they be getting worse? Watch a game from the 80s. Open 15 foot jumpers are there for the taking. Players take position on the low post without 300 pound guys pushing them out to the 3 point line. The game is so much more intense so much more difficult to score nowadays. These Lakers would run over any team from the 80s. And I hate the Lakers." There isn't many current NBA players that have much basketball talent...Most are just trackstars wearing a NBA jersey. Today's team would compete with the top 80's team about like the "Dream Team" did two years ago againest the forgien teams. Don't you guys learn? That tournament exposed USA's lack of talent.

I'm saying PG:Nick Van Exel SG:Kobe Bryant SF:Eddie Jones PF:Elden Campbell C:Shaq Fisher Rick Fox Jon Barry Robert Horry Sean Rooks Shouls be better than: Payton Kobe George Malone Shaq Fisher Russell Walton Grant Remember Payton and Malone are passed their primes i guess it's a matter of Gary Payton/Malone/Grant vs. Van Exel/Jones Campbell/Horry

You still can't provide a legit reason for this trade to go down...All you can say is that JT has a cheaper contract that Q is probably going to want. 1)There probably will not be but a million or two in difference...It seems to me that if they didn't want to offer Q a big contract they'd trade him for an ending contract or just let him go like they did Dre. It doesn't matter what Dunleavy would like. He's just the coach. 1) Jt's no the better player 2)He's not going to be a whole lot cheaper than Q 3)It makes no sense defense wise 4)It doesn't improve the Clippers passing

Mavs are going nowhere....Shaq will easily rip the Mavs apart. What's the Mavs record againest the Lakers the last decade again? The Kings are dead as far as championship threats go... Their bench is weaken....You shout Tony Massenburg... Slava is better than him or has been this year.... Webber is not a big game player so he isn't worrysome come playoff time. He's a choker and has been his entire career.

I betcha, theyd take it because of the reasons I have already outline." I betcha that you'd be wrong. They'd rather deal Q for an ending contract..... " A SG who can run the offense. (DA-Portland). " JT can run the offense in LA but not here? lol How often must you hypocrite yourself? Here he's an undersized SG with no vision, but there he's a SG that can run the offense.lol "Funny is that you put Former C (Ely) in at SF??? " I mean't Chris Wilcox.... [censored], they could play Eddie House for 38MPG and they'd have JT. "there will be lots of offers. NY has wanted JT for a while now..." Yeah, like JT had lots of offers in the offseason.lol New York post means nothing......Everybody disregrads what they say anyway...

Well, if they didn't want Rich they'd probably take a pick and a ending contract instead of a worthless stat player. They'd probably rather take an ending contract and go with: Marko/Magette/Ely/Brand/Kaman Nobody wants JT...Because he's no worth having. He's a stat player that should be coming off the bench.

Well, #1 because JT is a Scorer. I think he can easily average 18-20 ppg in LAC. #2," Whoope...Q can average 18PPG too...and play better defense while doing it. "LAC's team is not built for a Pure PG. #3, JT/Jaric would make a pretty good backcourt because they can share the duty of running the offense." Jt can't run the offense PERIOD.

There is nothing illegal about what they done(Although Malone is a hypocrite)because it was simply Payton and Malones choice to accept less money. [censored], the Lakers were argueably this talented in the late 90's with Shaq Eddie Jones Kobe Bryant Van Exel Elden Campbell Rick Fox Robert Horry That should have been one of the best teams in NBA history...It's just that Kobe and Shaq didn't have Phil back then. But back to the point...How can you stop them? You going to tell Payton and Malone to take the money and stay with the bad teams? Part of the reason the NBA lacks popularity is because teams are watered down...The Lakers are actually a breath of fresh air if there was any team talented enough to compete with them.

I dunno if a team can stay focused enough to win that many games these days. Teams just seem to struggle on the road and I think some road games will cost them 70 wins. I say about 68 or so.

One win is nothing. Finals and championships are important. The sad thing is that 3 of the so called 5 best players are sitting in mediocrity....KG/Tmac/ Duncan are all on bad teams..... Lakers I I I I I I I I I V Rest of the League

I'm not watching the game tonight. I've just had enough. I've barely watched any of the last 4 games because I just can't find a reason to watch this team anymore. But honestly, I couldn't get up for the Lakers/Mavs game last night. I used to watch nearly ever game that came on TV, but now no game seems like a must see anymore.

2. Not worry so much about Charisma but keep productive players... For instance. Keep Reef. He's productive, he's an Atlanta native." Being an Atlanta native shouldn't be anything to be proud of. But you can't keep guys because they are from Atlanta...Very few people care that he's from Atlanta. That means nothing. The guy isn't worth what he's getting paid. Keeping him should require him taking a HUGE paycut. He's worth about 7 a year. Charisma does make a difference. Atlanta is a charisma drivin city.....Reef is rather boring and does nothing exciting out there. JT has charisma, but he can't really backup his talk.....Sanders could talk the talk and walk the walk...JT can't do it. If the Hawks are smart they'll get rid of every player making over 5 million if at all possible and start building something. Reef/JT/Theo aren't championship caliber players. In fact, it's not even a good core because Theo simply isn't that good of a player. He's handycapped in so many ways...His scoring, rebounding, one on one defense. The little offensive game he had is GONE. Some of you like to say he"improved" on offense the second half of last year...But he averaged only 10PPG shooting about 39%. "IF so, do it... Trade JT. See if we can get QRich..." There is no reason for the Clippers to do this...NONE. Marko is a better PG than JT, Q rich is a better defender than JT....Q Rich is better than JT in just about every way possible. I think he's even younger and he's just so far ahead of JT on a talent level that it's not even funny. The best you can get for JT is hopefully an ending contract just so the team can forget about JT the mistake.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1677755 The only names are Jermey Shockey and Jim Fassell

Only picks 1-3 probably will be worth anything. This will probably be a worthless draft sorta like the one where the Hawks got Dermarr. It seems like just a top 5 pick isn't good enough. 1-3 is what the team needs to strive for.

Sheef just looks like an @sshole. You can just see it in him.

Right now, this team shows that it can play good basketball at times, " Doesn't ever team? Is there ANY team in the league that hasn't played well at times. Even the 1 win Magic have played well in parts of games. Even the worst team will do that. I don't think these guys should be given 11 more games. This "core" if you want to call it that has been together for 3 years and it's been excuses and everything. This team has about a 10% chance of being sucessful. The players are just way flawed. It only has too scorers......I know Jax scores about 13PPG shooting about 5-15 every night, but team just doesn't have the talent to win.