Los Angeles Lakers 2012-2013

[X-wind]

medyo matigas din ang mukha nitong si ramon sessions ah.

pera pera lang daw kanya kanyang trip

he doesn't have that winner's mentality so it won't be bad if he walks away from LAL.

[seith000]

mukhang na sales talk ng kanyang agent!

[Vhemvhol]

sign and trade him to cleveland for luke walton! and yes, the starting pg spot and more playing time for steve blake! no to d-will, mike brown + more of steve blake = championship.

[Pound4Pound]

Wow. Did I read it right? Jimboy believes that Lakers don't have to do major changes for next season??

[jazzper]

Good for the Lakers as well as Sessions. At least now the Lakers will carefully studying their options regarding PG. For me it's good enough that they will stick to their big 3 if there is no good trades available. They only need to get some role players who can play quality minutes when resting their starters. Having a good starters (Bynum, Gasol, Artest, Bryant and Blake/with existing contract). Except for Hill, they should assess their bench and get someone who can help them especially when the starters are resting.

[almostthere]

Wow. Did I read it right? Jimboy believes that Lakers don't have to do major changes for next season??

Kobe should go directly to Dr. Buss' office

[Winter05]

takte naman bat mas gusto pa ng Lakers mag move up sa draft eh hinddi naman sure na magaling yung makukuha nila... dapat proven players na...


kalokohan ni Jim Buss, "kobe still have faith in the core daw" pwe...

[gotta lick it]

^

i shoot, you rebound ... the kobe system






his trust his team to pickup the garbage.

[Gooner]

^

i shoot, you rebound ... the kobe system

his trust his team to pickup the garbage.

The gotta lick it system: you post, we cringe. And then expect us to bear the inconvenience and garbage of seeing your posts.

[ct05]

^

i shoot, you rebound ... the kobe system






his trust his team to pickup the garbage.

ay ano b yan.. wrong grammar pa.. tagalugin mo n ln brad!

[•lex•]

Sorry Fisher. No 6th ring for you

[Objection]

Can Kobe win under Mike Brown system which LeBron couldn't accomplish

[JeanPhillipe]

LOL no major changes? asa na tayong manalo ng title pag ganyan.

OKC. then Miami. esp Miami - plays defense and shoots the lights out on 3s.

kelangan na ng upgrade.

[jnyarop]

C - T. Duncan
PF - Z. Randolph
SF - M. World Peace
SG. - K. Bryant
PG - T. Parker

Bench
L. Odom
D. Fisher
J. Terry
J. Hill
M. Okur
R. Lopez
B. Diaw

Possible? Championship Caliber? Rate this team.

[Gooner]

C - T. Duncan
PF - Z. Randolph
SF - M. World Peace
SG. - K. Bryant
PG - T. Parker

Bench
L. Odom
D. Fisher
J. Terry
J. Hill
M. Okur
R. Lopez
B. Diaw

Possible? Championship Caliber? Rate this team.

Do we have $400 million to pay that roster?

[almostthere]

I'm in expectations management mode right now. I just want one more ring and Finals MVP for Kobe.

[gerald23]

New rules will shake up economic landscape in free agency

http://www.nba.com/2012/news/feature...s=iref:nbahpt1

By the time the clock strikes midnight on July 1, all that's left of the lockout season will be the scraps of confetti left over from the victory parade in Miami. But it will ring in the start of free agency for the first time under the terms of the new collective bargaining agreement that the NBA hopes will change the landscape of the league.

There will be significantly greater revenue sharing and raised penalties for exceeding the luxury tax threshold. Contracts will be limited to four years for free agents changing teams and annual raises capped at 4.5 percent, no sign-and-trade arrangements that helped facilitate the moves of LeBron James and Chris Bosh to Miami.

What does it all mean? In short, that this year's plum, Deron Williams, still gets to hit the jackpot and it's going to cost a whole lot more to keep being the Lakers.

"I think the new CBA is going to change the market," said Larry Coon, ESPN contributor and salary cap expert. "When you look at the financial model that's been put together, things will clearly not be the same as under the old agreement.

"Under the old system, everybody was trying to get three stars. And since there are not 90 stars available for the 30 teams, maybe you could get two and then another one that was the next notch down, but was still paid that way.

"That will definitely happen less and less. The first big sign we could see of the change happening was Tyson Chandler not getting re-signed in Dallas. The Mavericks won the championship and under the old model might have been inclined to keep that team together. But there they were saying, 'We just can't afford to pay that money for Tyson Chandler.' So they took their step back for this year. I think the rest of the league will spend a lot less on those types of player, too."

When even the high-rolling, spare-no-expense Mark Cuban is taking a different approach, the times are changing. But nowhere is the change likely to be as dramatic as in Los Angeles, where the Lakers, after consecutive eliminations in the West semifinals, are hoping to squeeze another championship run or two from the twilight of Kobe Bryant's career at price that could be going through the roof of Staples Center.

Due to the new terms of revenue sharing and luxury tax payments, the cost of the Lakers putting the same team with a $90 million payroll on the court next season would be roughly $140 million. Even for the perennially-flush Lakers, that's a big hit.

"I'm not saying there's going to be a lot of folks around the league shedding a lot of tears, but they're the Peter that was robbed to pay Paul in this whole thing," said one NBA executive. "If they thought they had a 1-in-4 or 1-in-5 chance at winning a title with what they had last season, maybe it's worth the risk at $90 million, considering their history and the demands of their market. But can you really justify those same odds when the price goes up by $50 million?"

Moves the Lakers made this season were already in direction of trimming the payroll. They tried to send Lamar Odom to New Orleans. But when that deal was shot down by commissioner David Stern, they sent him to Dallas for a trade exception and a future first-round pick. They shipped Derek Fisher and the pick they got for Odom to Houston at the trade deadline in a salary dump.

"I'm interested to see Kobe and how he reacts to this new reality and new world," Coon said. "Every one of the trades the Lakers made was for one thing -- to save money. They got a trade exception and didn't use it."

How is Bryant going to react if the Lakers need to fill a hole in their lineup next season and don't simply patch it as they have in the past with a wad of cash?

"I think there's no question that the (luxury) tax is much more punitive," said agent Mark Bartelstein. "It will give much more pause on long term commitments, especially from the teams that were perennially big spenders."

What the NBA owners' side maintained in the labor negotiations was that the new rules -- including raising the floor on team payrolls from 75 percent of the salary cap to 85 percent the next two years and to 90 percent in year three -- combined with the bump in revenue sharing and luxury tax payments would get the smaller-market franchises at the lower end to jump into free agency as one way of competing for championships.

"At the end of the day, your revenue is tied into winning, so teams have to make the decison that they are willing to compete," Bartelstein said. "Competing and giving your fans hope comes from assembling better teams with better players."

"The new system is definitely going to cool things at the top end of the market," said an Eastern Conference team official. "But I think it will still be frothy overall because of the bottom end. There's still lots of ways for the league to spend money and one of them is for, say, a bottom-feeder like Sacramento to start getting revenue sharing checks for $10 million and $20 million and spending them on players.

"That's what they have to do, since Sacramento is never going to be a destination like an L.A, New York, Miami or Chicago. Of course, they could just stick that money into their pockets, but I'm betting they'll spend it."

Coon doesn't believe that will happen, since the added income is not significant in the grand scheme of things.

"I believe the greater effect is in eventually bringing higher spending teams back to earth," he said. "San Antonio has always proven that you don't have to throw the wild money around if you do things right. I think now it could help smaller teams like Memphis, Indiana and Sacramento get in and stay in the fight."

From the players' standpoint, the likes of restricted free agents Eric Gordon and Roy Hibbert will get their big paydays, either from their current teams or bold offer. There are always outliers willing to break the bank. But there will also likely be more veteran players facing the Shane Battier choice from last summer -- getting the bigger payday of maybe $18 million to $20 million with a non-contender or choosing to chase a ring for three years and $9 million in Miami.

"Fewer and fewer guys will get to have their cake and eat it too," said the NBA executive.

The biggest stars will always get paid. It's the not-quite-stars who'll take the biggest pay cuts.

"It's going to bring the two extremes closer," Coon said. "A lot of teams will be helped a little and a few big ones might get hurt a lot. The intent was not that all 30 teams could manage however they wanted and throw money at anybody. The goal was to have 30 teams that, if managed well, can compete."

So the answers will only start to be delivered on July 1 with the new era dawns.

"To me at the end of the day the greatest way to increase the value of your franchise is by winning, which increases revenue," Bartelstein said. "If you have more revenue, there's so much more that you can do. That said, I would be really disappointed if teams at the lower end didn't make a much stronger effort to go out into the marketplace and compete for players.

"The one thing I have always believed is there are a lot of really competitive people in this business. I guess now we'll find out."

Fran Blinebury has covered the NBA since 1977. You can e-mail him here and follow him on twitter.

The views on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of the NBA, its clubs or Turner Broadcasting.

[calvinzero]

Do you agree with this??

Quincy Miller and Perry Jones to the Lakers??

[gerald23]

After Orlando replaced their team manager and discussed the situation surrounding and haunting them last season. "When Dwight Howard asking them for his release and be traded to other team."

Teams got interested why not? They placed their trade offers landing with zero visibilities and came to the point of no landing zone for either teams last 2011-2012 season.

Sad to say no team gained an advantage of the so called opportunity, Dwight Howard changes his mind like on the nick of time and he play another season for the Magic.

Lakers wants Dwight Howard partly offering the entire team minus their team franchise player Kobe Bryant, but they failed to lure the number one center, when you talked about the statistical points.

They tried to relax for one more season without trading Andrew Bynum, who became an instant force to reckon with last season.

Now Houston wants DH12 but you don't want to count out the Lakers, if they smell blood and it came from Dwight Howard rest assure they will find ways to be one of the team on the top of the situation.

If traded Dwight will signed one year contract with the Rockets and come to think Lakers will offer mega deal to sealed at least 3 to 5 years, if they won over this up-coming trade.

http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2012/0...s=iref:nbahpt1

[chaitotek]

C - T. Duncan
PF - Z. Randolph
SF - M. World Peace
SG. - K. Bryant
PG - T. Parker



Bench
L. Odom
D. Fisher
J. Terry
J. Hill
M. Okur
R. Lopez
B. Diaw

Possible? Championship Caliber? Rate this team.

Nahiya kp...bat di nalang yung buong West All Star binuo mo....Jusmiyo!