(Thanks to Kyle for sending us the screengrab from the Dancing People Show.)
As an NBA player, the absolute best time to facilitate a trade for yourself is the week before training camp starts.
It puts your team in a state of panic, and lets the local media have something to focus on as they ramp up their NBA coverage.
For example, instead of asking Steve Nash how his summer went, the reporters in PHX will now be asking what Captain Sun thinks about Shawn Marion’s request to be traded.
(Same thing for AK47/Utah btw. These two are masters – silent all summer, then this. Take note Jermaine O’Neal & Kobe.)
“Regardless of everything that went on with the extension, I’m tired of hearing my name in trade rumors,” Marion told the newspaper. “It’s time for me to move on. I felt like they tried to force my hand to Boston with the [Kevin] Garnett stuff.”
Marion reportedly killed a three-team deal that would have sent him to Boston with an extension, Garnett to Phoenix and picks going to Minnesota.
“I haven’t done anything wrong,” Marion told the newspaper. “I leave it on the floor night in and night out. Sometimes, it’s just time, and it’s time to go. It’s been like a nightmare. It hurts me making this phone call. It’s hurting me in my stomach.”
Long have been the rumors that Shawn longs to be a #1 option, and it seems his ego has finally boiled over in the hot Arizona sun.
Strange then, is his desire to go to the Lakers, where he’d never be the #1 option. (Unless they traded Kobe for him, which isn’t happening.
Regardless, we love when anyone of note requests an LA trade, because it means Lakersground.net instantly has a 47-page thread about it, along with declarations of a championship.
Let’s check in on it…
Yes, here it is.
Where would we like to see Marion go? The Cavaliers? Sure, why not? Let’s send Hughes and Gooden, who would both thrive over there. Everyone does, except for Marcus Banks, who is The Anomaly.
NOTE: Mark Cuban was far from perfect last night on Dancing With the Stars, but we enjoyed his enthusiasm, note-taking, and patches jacket.
NOTE 2: Marion with the LAL makes the LAL…about the same, considering they’d surely have to give up Odom and something else significant, even though they have nothing else of significance.
NOTE 3: We saw a little of that Michael Vick house meeting on ESPN lasterday, and we’re kinda confused at all the people in the audience who were like booing and stuff anytime Vick was criticized, and we were especially tweaked (to the point of changing the channel) at the racism allegations/insinuations. Dude admitted his guilt. Nobody is trying to screw him over and he’s not a victim of anything except his own stupidity.
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i laughed for about five straight minutes at that image.
“i don’t like how ya’ll tried to trade me, so… trade me.”
personally, i think marion is a pretty significant upgrade over lamar odom.
Next time you see Marion find his own shot, let me know. Dude needs his own PG to feed him the ball exactly where he likes it.
i don’t think it’s fair to call that painful jerking of arms and hands that marion uses to score “a shot.”
Shawn Marion is a HUGE upgrade over Lamar Odom.
He plays about twice as many games a year as Odom does too.
Shawn Marion is a HUGE upgrade over Lamar Odom. – Not in the offense the Lakers are running. Maybe if they had JKidd running the point.
Marion may be better, but how much better does it make the Lakers? Especially if they have to include another piece, and also assuming they sign Shawn to the $20M/year extension he wants?
marion clearly wants to be the next joe johnson of the NBA.
wait… jkidd running point??
let the marion/carter trade rumors begin (as a nets fan, i’d be all over that)!!!
Everyone knows JKidd can’t carry Rondo’s jockstrap. Give me Rondo, Marion, and Sun Ming Ming and I’d run things.
Hilarious Photshop. Hey, you still got game, it’s a good thing that you came out of retirement.
That photoshop brought me back to the old YAY days. And I love how you set up the Lakersground.net link. “Ah yes, here it is…”
P.S. Where’s the BDP at these days?
Disgruntled!
Marion is THE ultimate role player.
This guy did the role playing stuff so well, so very well that it made him an all star – in the forward heavy west, no less – and yet every year I’ve heard the suns talk about trading him for some cheetos and some paper towels. Stale cheetos. But quality paper towels.
Cav, can you think of one nba player that would be better suited to play alongside lebron. Can you?
My LeArgument:
LeBron can pass, marion can catch and finish
LeBron’s defense is suspect, marion can effectively D up anyone from parker to nowitzki
Cavs need shooters, marion is all substance, no flash, negative flash even, from three
Cavs stand around on offense all the time, marion is a high energy slasher
LeBron feels like taking over, no problem, marion will hit the offensive glass hard.
LeBron is incredibly fast for 6′9, 380 lbs, and marion is just as fast at 6′9, 575 lbs. Breakaway dunks for everybody!
Now that i think about it, Cavalier, since you are the entity that Lebron plays for (er you a building?), I insist that you pair up LeBron and LeMarion right away for their yogical lessons.
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