Well, seems our Lamar Odom will soon
be another memory for the Lakers team.
Derek Fisher and Kobe Bryant are still
stunned by hearing this and voiced their
opinions on T.V. the other night.
What amazes me is that David Stern was
once a brilliant leader and seems to
have sunk into an oblivious St Patricks'
well here. As the newspaper tells it,
sems like an aging leader too proud and
stubborn to realize he may have overstayed
his effectiveness. Stern has either become
a paranoid control freak or a puppet for a
group of owners who mistakenly think they
can control parity by hindering star players
abilities to move freely about the league.
Looks as though Stern is making a mockery
actually of the kingdom he helped to build.
If this is not happening, then why did he put
out his hand to squelch deals that would have
been so profitable? For example,
reasonable trades that would have brought the
New Orleans Hornets star either to the Lakers
or to the Clippers? This would have also improved
the Hornets and the Houston Rockets.
In the span of less than a week, Stern completely
undercut a good and talented man in Hornets
general manager Dell Demps by overruling
Demps' sound decision making and telling him
that his work was unacceptable. Appears tyrannical!
Collateral damage seems to be just about everywhere.
Meanwhile Kupchak insisted it was not a salary
dump, but acknowledged it gives the players on our
Laker team financial flexibility under the new
collective bargaining agreement. Kupchak also
made it clear he had not given up hope of acquiring
Chris Paul (and/or) center Dwight Howard of the
Orlando Magic. Howard has actually asked the Magic
to trade him to the Lakers, the Mavericks (or) to
the New Jersey Nets. By the way, Kupchak did
apologize to Pau Gasol during a meeting on Friday.
The bottom line here is that if there seems to be
a way to improve the team, then that is what is
to be attempted. Kobe Bryant is one player
that has a no-trade clause in his contract.
That then is just the way it is.
Babs Wells
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