Kobe and KG?

To keep Kobe, try adding Garnett:

KG turned down a rumored Boston trade by refusing to sign an extension there, and his agent indicates there’s only a few teams he’d play for – and the list starts with Phoenix. Assuming Phoenix refuses to put Stoudamire in the deal, the Lakers may well have a better offer:

To Minnesota:
Andrew Bynum
Salary: $2,030,280 Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 7.8 REB: 5.9 AST: 1.1 PER: 15.44
Vladimir Radmanovic
Salary: $5,215,000 Years Remaining: 5
PTS: 6.6 REB: 3.3 AST: 1.2 PER: 11.02
Kwame Brown
Salary: $8,287,500 Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 8.4 REB: 6.0 AST: 1.8 PER: 13.79
Lamar Odom
Salary: $12,348,596 Years Remaining: 3
PTS: 15.9 REB: 9.8 AST: 4.8 PER: 16.20
Jordan Farmar
Salary: $939,120 Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 4.4 REB: 1.7 AST: 1.9 PER: 10.79

To Lakers:
Ricky Davis
Salary: $6,364,400 Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 17.0 REB: 3.9 AST: 4.8 PER: 15.97
(Trenton Hassell or Troy Hudson would work instead of Davis, btw)
Craig Smith
Salary: $412,718 Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 7.4 REB: 5.1 AST: 0.6 PER: 15.72
Kevin Garnett
Salary: $21,000,000 Years Remaining: 3
PTS: 22.4 REB: 12.8 AST: 4.1 PER: 24.20
Marko Jaric
Salary: $5,525,000 Years Remaining: 5
PTS: 5.3 REB: 2.6 AST: 2.1 PER: 9.57



New Lakers rotation: Mihm, KG, Luke, Kobe, Jaric; bench rotation players – Turiaf, Cook, CSmith, Mo Evans, RDavis, Sasha Vujacic. That should be good enough to assuage the Kobe’s fears of a crappy team. Good enough to challenge the Spurs/Mavs/ Suns? Hmmm... Your thoughts….