2012-13 Los Angeles Lakers Thread

Originally posted by GameOver:
Kleiza was amnestied today...thoughts?

Originally posted by LA9erFan:
I'd take Mike Miller though, who expects to be amnestied.

Originally posted by LA9erFan:
I'd take Mike Miller though, who expects to be amnestied.

Originally posted by LA9erFan:
I'd take Mike Miller though, who expects to be amnestied.

Originally posted by TheG0RE49er:

Originally posted by LA9erFan:

I'd take Mike Miller though, who expects to be amnestied.

good joke haha. lets amnesty a guy whos old and can barely move, and lets pick up a guy whos even older and cant move.

Originally posted by InconvenienTTruth21:

Originally posted by StOnEy333:

Originally posted by GameOver:

Dwight Howard was worried about the timetable of the Los Angeles Lakers to move on from the Kobe Bryant era if he re-signed with the team, according to sources.

Howard and his representatives told the Lakers that he would have a difficult time re-signing if Bryant remained beyond the final season of his contract in 13-14.

Bryant said publicly shortly before the Lakers' meeting with Howard that he planned to play two or three more seasons.

"How can it be Kobe's team and Dwight's team?" one source said. "It was about the passing of the torch."

Howard's camp asked if the Lakers at least considered using their amnesty provision on Bryant, according to sources.

The Lakers could have amnestied Bryant while shopping Pau Gasol and Steve Nash to teams with cap space to potentially re-sign Howard and also sign Chris Paul. But the Lakers made it clear that they would allow Bryant to decide his own future with the club.

Sources say Howard didn't feel especially close with anyone inside the Lakers except for Mitch Kupchak. Howard also had concerns about how the Lakers would market him and had been disappointed with that aspect during his lone season with the franchise.

Suggesting to the Lakers to amnesty Kobe? This mothaf**ker!

lolololol

Originally posted by HudsonValley:

Laker fans are in for a rude awakening come 2014. No one will play with Kobe unless he's willing to giveup his "my team, my way" rah rah speech. But you guys are too enamored with him to accept that notion.

Originally posted by InconvenienTTruth21:

Originally posted by HudsonValley:
Laker fans are in for a rude awakening come 2014. No one will play with Kobe unless he's willing to giveup his "my team, my way" rah rah speech. But you guys are too enamored with him to accept that notion.

You dont see anything wrong with Dwight Howard, who has accomplished nothing in his career, asking the Lakers to amnesty Kobe freaking Bryant so he can be more comfortable? lol Dwight is a joke

Originally posted by InconvenienTTruth21:

Originally posted by HudsonValley:
Laker fans are in for a rude awakening come 2014. No one will play with Kobe unless he's willing to giveup his "my team, my way" rah rah speech. But you guys are too enamored with him to accept that notion.

You dont see anything wrong with Dwight Howard, who has accomplished nothing in his career, asking the Lakers to amnesty Kobe freaking Bryant so he can be more comfortable? lol Dwight is a joke

Originally posted by 4ML:

Do you blame him if the team FO is saying, he is the future. I don't care much for Stephen A Smith, but he actually spoke to Dwight and his ppl and he said when Kobe said he will play for another 3-4 years, Dwight asked Lakers if they're willing to turn the team over to him after Kobe's current deal expires. He suggested that he didn't ask Lakers to amnesty Kobe.

If that's true...IMO, that's very fair on Dwight's part.

Originally posted by HudsonValley:

Laker fans are in for a rude awakening come 2014. No one will play with Kobe unless he's willing to giveup his "my team, my way" rah rah speech. But you guys are too enamored with him to accept that notion.

Originally posted by InconvenienTTruth21:

Originally posted by HudsonValley:
Laker fans are in for a rude awakening come 2014. No one will play with Kobe unless he's willing to giveup his "my team, my way" rah rah speech. But you guys are too enamored with him to accept that notion.

You dont see anything wrong with Dwight Howard, who has accomplished nothing in his career, asking the Lakers to amnesty Kobe freaking Bryant so he can be more comfortable? lol Dwight is a joke

Originally posted by InconvenienTTruth21:

Originally posted by 4ML:
Do you blame him if the team FO is saying, he is the future. I don't care much for Stephen A Smith, but he actually spoke to Dwight and his ppl and he said when Kobe said he will play for another 3-4 years, Dwight asked Lakers if they're willing to turn the team over to him after Kobe's current deal expires. He suggested that he didn't ask Lakers to amnesty Kobe.

If that's true...IMO, that's very fair on Dwight's part.

that's more logical, but I was "loling" at the part that said Dwight asked the Lakers to amnesty Kobe.

Originally posted by 4ML:

Originally posted by InconvenienTTruth21:

Originally posted by 4ML:

Do you blame him if the team FO is saying, he is the future. I don't care much for Stephen A Smith, but he actually spoke to Dwight and his ppl and he said when Kobe said he will play for another 3-4 years, Dwight asked Lakers if they're willing to turn the team over to him after Kobe's current deal expires. He suggested that he didn't ask Lakers to amnesty Kobe.

If that's true...IMO, that's very fair on Dwight's part.

that's more logical, but I was "loling" at the part that said Dwight asked the Lakers to amnesty Kobe.

From what is reported by Stephen A Smith...in the end, if Lakers will willing to fire D'Antoni and hire a coach who knew how to use Dwight - he'd have stayed.