The Official Los Angeles Lakers Return to the Finals Thread.

Post press conference showed me personally alot. Alot will disagree with me, and thats fine but by Kobe completely shutting down all Shaq "return" questions to LA, like a bad joke at a funeral, shows me that its not about winning to him. He wants to be the man, he doesn't want anyone on the team that is a bigger "star" so to speak than he is. Plus it wouldn't work anyways I'm sure, Shaq is no longer the better player out of the two.

 

You answered your own question (even though you didn't ask one...). Shaq brings NOTHING to the Lakers at this point. If anything, I think it says more about Shaq's "fakeness," more than anything. He reminds me of Magic Johnson in that way. Allow me to explain:

Shaq, much like Magic, knows how to manipulate the media to their advantage and are supreme oppurtunists. Both know that it is in their own best interests to buddy up to people at the right time (Magic to Bird and Shaq to Kobe).

Think about it. Shaq's team is failing miserably. They just fired their coach after four months after running their old, succesful coach out of town. Amare looks to be traded and Shaq will be stuck with an old Steve Nash and spare parts. He wants no part of that. So what does he do? He starts pulling the strings of the media and angling for a return to L.A. A team, mind you, that has the best record in the NBA and is the favorite to win it all this year (yet you maintain that Kobe isn't about winning...?).

Shaq is doing what is best for him, like he always has, like Magic always has. Do you guys think that Bird and Magic are as good as friends as they appear to be in the media? Doubtful. It is a manufactured relationship between two people that respect each other, and probably even like each other, but not to the extent that we are led to believe.

I don't blame Kobe. Not after everything that Shaq has said about him. Heck less than a year ago, Shaq was asking Kobe how his *** tastes. Why? Because it was still cool to bash Kobe in Shaq's eyes. Kudos to Kobe for not playing his game. Besides, if you listen to ANY of Kobe's interviews since they split up, you will find that his position on Shaq hasn't changed at all. More than I can say about Shaq.

All of that aside, someone tell me what Shaq brings to the table for the Lakers? Considering that they would have to part with Odom and probably Bynum in order to make it work. Or Odom and their entire bench, it doesn nothing but make them weaker and the Suns stronger.

No thank you.

 

I dont like the "Old" Shaq very much at all. He has destroyed the Suns with his salary and his lack of athleticism.

 

minus the providing energy on defense thing.

 

****! SHAQ...Kobe and the Lakers don't need him.I said to myself all along that when Shaq,"grows up",he'll regret leaving the Lakers.You don't EVER leave a storied franchise like the Lakers(and if wanted to stay he could have).Now he's kissing *** to try to be remembered as the best 1-2 punch ever( him and Kobe).Funny,I remember Shaq saying something like D-WAde was the best "sidekick" he ever had.

 

i'm not a knick fan....?

 

Good bye Mihm, we hardly knew ye...

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jesus this thread is dead in the water

 

Thats because the main write on this thread went AWOL. Ariza is going to get fined and suspended, IMO. It may not have been intentional, but he should know better to do that.

 

do what?try and swat the ball?

Ariza had no intentions of hurting Rudy. Just unfortunate he hit his head trying.

 

Come on.....he knew better to jump in the air full speed at him like that. No matter what his intentions were.

 

Ariza does that move alot of times but i guess we view it different.

IMO You play hard till the clock reads 0. No matter how bad your team is losing.

 

i cant believe this thing sits on page 2 ----BUMP-----

 

cuz no one cares about the crappy lakers

 

damn, i was hoping to get a rise out of "borderland wolf" so i know its sam for sure.

anyways, kobe is not gonna win mvp and the lakers wont make the nba title game.

 

that would only happen if wade was not superhuman, but since he is, id say we have a good shot. he was just resting for the celtics game, we need him at 100% no matter what seed we wind up being.

 

We have something the hawks...and for that matter the Lakers...don't have.

Wade.

 

BTW..I picked you guys to win it this year......

but No Bynum.......I will be wrong with my pick. (Although i seem to be nailing ALL of my picks this year except the "Philly being a contender" pick).

 

well...Regan...your window is 2 years...we are winning everything in site from 2010 on.

has Wade actually gone down and it became lottery time again (impossible..we are too far up)..then they might as well disban the league because Wade plus 2 lottery stars and another young star in the making PLUS a 2010 MAX player?

toooooo sick.

 

and yeah...if Wade goes down...we are a lottery team..and if Kobe goes down you are the 8th seed AT BEST..and if Kobe and Bynum go down..you are the memphis grizzlies.

so yeah...your best player matters in the NBA. duh.

 

YOU WISH that was wishful thinking. So does the rest of the league.

 

listen buddy this aint north korea u cant tell us where to go

you aint lil kim

 

I am not talking about ADDING yet another lottery star..that would be overkill. I am just saying AS IS....RIGHT NOW. in 2010 it is over for everybody.

seriously....

you think that a team with Wade...a really good PG in Chalmers and a star PF in Beasley PLUS a MAX player is NOT a championship contender?

the weed in LA must be insane then.

Dude...that team could boast FOUR all-stars.

you do know that Chalmers and Beasley are rookies...right? and that we also happen to be the team with the most cap space in 2010?

 

so which brings us to the next topic, when will Bynum play a full season?

 

If DWade can I have to believe it's possible for anyone to do so.

 

so it depends on wether a team in MIAMI which is in florida, which has no state tax and a superstar in Wade...which..did I fail to mention has the most cap space in that year..."can" get a MAX player.....

OKAY.

BTW, I wanted Elton Brand before we drafted Beasley. We used up that salary piece to setup our 2010 bonanza.

if you do not want us here....don't talk **** about our team. Just worry about getting Bynum healthy and pray that defensive juggernauts like the all mighty defensive genius that is Paul Pierce don't guard kobe in the finals.