So Kobe and Buss meet in Spain, and Kobe still demands a trade. Chad Ford's relatively lame scenarios on ESPN.com don't net the Lakers nearly enough to make the deals plausible, and it seems unlikely the Lakers will deal with a Western Conference team (the same idiotic mistake they made with Shaq, when they could've had Nowitzki). So...
It needs to happen - it makes too much sense - or don't you agree?
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Los Angeles Lakers
Outgoing Players: Sasha Vujacic, Lamar Odom, Kobe Bryant
Incoming Players: Eric Snow, Larry Hughes, LeBron James
Resulting rotations:
Cleveland:
Ilgauskas/ Varejao, Odom/ Gooden, Pavlovic/ Marshall, Kobe/ Newble, Gibson/ Vujacic/ Damon Jones/ Shannon Brown
Lakers:
Bynum/ Kwame/ Mihm?, Radmanovic/ Turiaf/ Cook, LeBron/ Luke, Hughes/ Mo Evans, Snow/ Farmar
Logic:
For Lakers - Snow and Hughes are exactly the kind of big, defensively oriented guards Phil Jackson loves (remember Ron Harper and Brian Shaw?), and Snow would be a nice caretaker who could slide into a backup role as Farmar matures. Hughes and Mo Evans could fight out the SG, or even play together, as Hughes showed he could handle the point this year. LeBron would finally be where we all know he will end up – a major media center – and the Lakers keep their young stud Bynum. And Phil and LeBron can grow their legend together, as LeBron finally gets a coach he must defer to.
For Cavs – the Finals showed just how dysfunctional the current mix is, and the desperate need for a quality 4-man. If LeBron is leaving in 2 years anyway, why not get his closest comp in Kobe (who publicly said he wants out) and an all-star (in the East, anyway) 4 to play alongside him in Lamar? Sasha V. even has the makings of a decent backup shooting PG to Gibson (and is used to playing with Kobe). The Cavs immediately become a stronger contender to repeat their East title and even put up a fight next June. And if they win the title (and beat Miami along the way), Kobe can finally prove (in his own mind) that he’s the best – better than Shaq and LeBron.
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