The injury-riddled Los Angeles Lakers have made a move to bolster their front court, reportedly acquiring center Pau Gasol from the Memphis Grizzlies for center Kwame Brown, rookie guard Javaris Crittenton and first round draft picks in 2008 and 2010, according to the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.Gasol, the 2001-02 Rookie of the Year and an All-Star in 2006, is averaging 18.9 points, 8.8 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game this season. But he has been unhappy in Memphis, which is mired in the bottom of the Southwest Division at 13-33.
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WHOA!!! Gasol is a beast. LA is an instant contender.
If J. West was still in Memphis the story would be "West feeds Lakers like McHale fed Boston w/KG".
Wait this can't be true. If you are toying with my emotions I shall visit a hell upon the shores of costa rica not known in this age.
I have looked away, and kept silence, I have said nothing, holding myself in; But now, I cry out as a woman in labor, gasping and panting.
I will lay waste mountains and hills, all their herbage I will dry up; I will turn the rivers into marshes, and the marshes I will dry up.
I will lead the blind on their journey; by paths unknown I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them, and make crooked ways straight. These things I do for them, and I will not forsake them.
If this is true. I heard it here first and this is a good day.
CONFIRMED.
DV I heard it here first. For bringing this good news your are a god among men.
Thank you.
--WG
Lakers end up big winners for this. Big winners. And Memphis gets what they want, I guess, too.
Lakers have some just great talent now. But that's how Phil Jackson operates. He gets it. The organization gets it.
For Fantasy Basketball ( www.nbaroto.com ) I think Hakim Warrick is the best pickup now.
Now that's a major asset acquisition.
Wesley Gibson!
Where you been man? Didn't know you were a Lakers fan like that.
I thought I was surrounded by "Kobe Haters".
Yeah man. This might mean LA v Boston in the finals.
Who in the West they can't beat?
Lakers were beginning to dominate with just Bynum and Ariza supporting Kobe. Now Gasol? A legitimate Power Forward who can play center? Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiii....
What up DV,
I tend to read more than I comment unless I have a particularly strong opinion. Thanks for introducing me to Ron Paul by the way. I'm still a Barack Obama guy but I can appreciate the Ron Paul sentiment. Really, I agree with pretty much everything he says except the problem is that he'll just delegate the right to govern all those things (mary jane, drug prosecution, etc.) to the states so it won't have any practical benefits for blacks (cept they'd be in state prison instead of the feds which generally allows 50% time served instead of 85%). That being said, without your posts I would have never listened to him so thanks for that.
On to more important things. Here is my question. How can you NOT be a Kobe Bryant fan? If sports is worth anything to us higher than a regional "rah-rah" rooting interest, then its through our need to see, in a simple and easy to digest form, man transcend the "normal" limitations placed on our achievements (largely by our own minds). To see a man, no different genetically from you and I, kick himself free of the earth, will, maybe even demand of himself an excellence that sets him apart from his peers is inspiring. Say what you will about Kobe's personal life (if anything its his fathers fault for raising him with the "cosby" ideal that our problems are largely behavioral and we're all on equal ground), but the legal troubles aren't what I suspect cause people to hate on him. Rather, its his will. We can watch Shaq dominate with his jovial indifference and not be affected because of his immensity. Ultimately Shaq's size and natural gifts allow us to see him as a freak, a physically gifted being unlike us. He is Goliath and his dominance is expected. But what of David? If Goliath's dominance is easier to accept because of its alien-ness, then how are we likely to respond to a man much like ourselves that separates himself in the same manner? The answer is that Kobe's dominance is monsterous. His single-minded focus calls into question our own dedication. His excellence isn't explainable by size, nor strength, nor an ability to "fly". Its simply a matter of will and as such diminishes us all. There has only been one other figure that reached that plateau of single minded domination. HIS Airness. He was the first and he was exhaulted as a modern day god. For a lot of people, recognizing Kobe's obvious similarities either calls into question their own inability to will themselves to near perfection or shouts down "god" himself.
-WG
Paul is tight!! Lakers will win the title. Mitch, I apologize.
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