Well, free agents are officially allowed to sign today, and one of the people doing some signing will be former Jazz guard Derek Fisher, who will be going back to the Lakers for three years. They’ll be using their full MLE (mid-level exception) on the deal.
There’s no official word on this yet, but considering Lakersground.net has had a collective heart attack, we’re guessing it’s true.
This’d be a great move if the Lakers were like, a contender looking for one more piece of bench support. As it stands today, it’s…questionable horrible. At least Fisher is taking a pay cut on the Utah deal he got out of – this way we don’t have to be mean in reference to Derek.
(Interesting to learn that he switched agents this past weekend – was the other one, as we feared when the Jazz thing happened, looking for the highest payday no matter what?)
In other Los Angeles guard-centric news, Steve Francis got his $30M buyout from Portland, and all signs say he’ll go to the Clippers, where his “best friend” Cuttino Mobley is currently stationed.
According to the Post, [Francis's agent person] Fried said that the buyout allows his client to find the “right fit as opposed to the most money. He doesn’t need much to be made whole.”
Y’know, with all the rumors and such out there are those lads, you’d think they’d avoid using such odd phrasing such as saying that Steve is looking to “be made whole”. What does that even mean?
Anyway, with two new guards coming to the LA area, we’ve officially moved down two spots in the ranking of Southern California basketball players. Sad, but considering we’re #4,546,220 right now, what’s two more notches down the chart, right?
Be sure to keep your ears and eyes open – with free agents now able to sign, everything should start not happening today. We’ll keep you informed, albeit probably two or three days later than things actually happen. You should really be reading TrueHoop.
NOTE: The NBA is setting up a massive 2-on-2 tournament in China. Why can they do that there, but won’t run one during All-Star Saturday Night?
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1) the lakers drafted a chinese point guard? i don’t know why that’s funny to me.
2) this would have been a lot more interesting if the 2-on-2 tournament involved actual NBA players. or at least their groupies.
Made whole…is that what they call it now?
And that is the best photoshop we’ve seen around here in a while. Excellent.
you almost owed me a new laptop, as I nearly spit Diet Dr. Pepper all over the one I am currently using when I saw that Photoshop.
you are unreal.
You guys aren’t going to want to hear this, but I couldn’t think of anything to PS for this, so I just threw a bunch of crap together and then told myself I suck.
THAT SAID, I have a use for this elsewhere, and it involves dead snake movies!
DEAD SNAKE MOVIES!!! Whoo-wee!
Diet Dr. Pepper tastes like the real Dr. Pepper, without the calories.
your mouth’s writing checks your body can’t cash
DARKO! To the Grizz! Yes! Can you say Twin Towers Euro Edition? Plus 2 tough-as-hell 6′0″ point guards who can’t shoot worth a damn AND Rudy Gay? I foresee 60 losses again or an improbable 4/5 seed, take your pick.
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