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NUMBERICA

NUMBERICA

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Excuse me if this appraisal is late, but:

Has it occurred to anyone that the decision with Mo Williams had a massive impact on Steve Nash's destination? The Lakers were going to grab him but KOC came in and probably took the cheapest deal/placed the highest bid depending on your perspective. That left the Lakers with the Odom TPE that they used to grab Nash with (who they HAD to trade for to offer the amount of money that they did).

Has it occured to anyone that Phoenix is also not far from Utah, either (Nash's supposedly biggest factor)? And that for roughly the same price it is to take on Mo and Marvin's committed salaries (one and two years respectively, but spanning only two years) the Jazz could've spent on salary for Nash over three? And that the Jazz wouldn't even hypothetically have to trade for him, while the Lakers would be out of the running (because they'd have to trade someone they don't want to make it happen [salary matching issue, just to start]).

Anyway, kind of fun and sad to think about if it's anywhere close to truthfulness (which we'll never know).

Goodnight.
 
You'd also have had go find a way to shed some salary (but not a ton). Amnestying Bell is a start, or - ideally - taking back less (or sometimes close to no) salary (depending on if it's a team under the cap, themselves [Big Al to Charlotte for example]) in a trade. You could Amnesty Harris if it became hopeless otherwise.
 
Nash to Utah?
Numberica...go back to sleep, you've been dreaming. Steve Nash was considering New York or Toronto before the Lakers stepped in. But you and Borat really need to hook up. You two come up with the greatest conspiracy theories. And where did you hear the Lakers were pursuing Mo Williams? This is the first I've ever heard of it. Would love to have a link. Besides, how do you know KOC didn't explore the same option LA Lakers did with Nash?
 
Nash wanted to go to a contender or Toronto. I think Nash goes to New York if it was between the Knicks and the Jazz. I don't think the Jazz are enough of a contender to get Nash.
 
I'm not to bent out of shape that the Lakers picked up Nash. Does it make them better? Ofcourse but Nash isn't going to help them beat us 2 years down the road when we finally have our young guys developed and can realistically think about being contenders. And The two Williams have a good shot of being apart of our team then and making huge contributions!

Now if the lakers land Dwight… then I'll worry!!
 
Oh no, I just had another terrible thought. What if Andre Kirilenko decided to use one of his free passes to sleep with Sheryl Swoops and she got pregnant, then what if she married Mike Krzyzski and he decided to raise this baby as his own so that he could teach it desire and passion for the game at a level than had never been seen before. And what if the baby grew to be eight and a half feet tall with arms so long that he could dunk the ball while standing outside of the three point line and he also developed a better handle than CP3 plus he also won an Olympic gold medal in the 100 meters because he had reactions faster than the Kung Fu Panda and also because he could cover the distance in five steps, and then when he declared for the NBA draft we happened to own the first pick as a result of trading Jefferson to Charlotte (who had given it top 4 protection for 18 consecutive years before the protection dropped off, but it still hadn't ever been transferred to us because they suck so bad), but then on the day before the draft Klinko came back into this boy's life and made him promise that he would never play for the Utah Jazz because they had insulted him by not renewing his max contract and then allowing another team to sign him to a measly $10 million per year. And what if the boy actually did refuse to sign with us in order to show Andre that he had loyalty to his birth father despite the fact that this very same man had abandoned him for life (and even though his birth father had a tattoo on his back that resembled a giant magnification of the male anatomy)... and then what if the kid goes on to win 26 consecutive championships for the Lakers and the only reason he hadn't played for Utah is that Greg Miller was cheap and KOC had decided to hold a grudge against Andre for not playing up to his previous contract and wasn't willing to give him a second one that was totally out of line with his value as a basketball player. In other words, we would see in retrospect that we had totally blown it in this off season.

Just try to tell me that wouldn't suck. Well, even if you say it wouldn't I'll say that's only because you don't know what the hell you're talking about because it would!
 
The last time the Lakers built a big foursome (which included Karl Malone), karma bit them in the butt. I see a similar thing this year. The otherwise iron man healthy Nash (like Malone) could be bit by the injury bug once that Lakers uniform is put on (like Malone).
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
Oh no, I just had another terrible thought. What if Andre Kirilenko decided to use one of his free passes to sleep with Sheryl Swoops and she got pregnant, then what if she married Mike Krzyzski and he decided to raise this baby as his own so that he could teach it desire and passion for the game at a level than had never been seen before. And what if the baby grew to be eight and a half feet tall with arms so long that he could dunk the ball while standing outside of the three point line and he also developed a better handle than CP3 plus he also won an Olympic gold medal in the 100 meters because he had reactions faster than the Kung Fu Panda and also because he could cover the distance in five steps, and then when he declared for the NBA draft we happened to own the first pick as a result of trading Jefferson to Charlotte (who had given it top 4 protection for 18 consecutive years before the protection dropped off, but it still hadn't ever been transferred to us because they suck so bad), but then on the day before the draft Klinko came back into this boy's life and made him promise that he would never play for the Utah Jazz because they had insulted him by not renewing his max contract and then allowing another team to sign him to a measly $10 million per year. And what if the boy actually did refuse to sign with us in order to show Andre that he had loyalty to his birth father despite the fact that this very same man had abandoned him for life (and even though his birth father had a tattoo on his back that resembled a giant magnification of the male anatomy)... and then what if the kid goes on to win 26 consecutive championships for the Lakers and the only reason he hadn't played for Utah is that Greg Miller was cheap and KOC had decided to hold a grudge against Andre for not playing up to his previous contract and wasn't willing to give him a second one that was totally out of line with his value as a basketball player. In other words, we would see in retrospect that we had totally blown it in this off season.

Just try to tell me that wouldn't suck. Well, even if you say it wouldn't I'll say that's only because you don't know what the hell you're talking about because it would!
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I'm not sure which is more surprising. That I actually read the entire post, or that it was worthwhile to read the entire post?
 
I don't think Nash would have come here so wrangling for that farfetched possibility doesn't bother me. The bummer was KOC not getting more value out of the Mo and Marvin deals.
 
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