Kevin Garnett to Lakers!?
Reports are that the lakers are in talks with the Timberwolves and 2 other teams to get KG to the lakers in hopes of getting Kobe to stay....
I dont think it can happen. KG wont leave timberwolves.
Source:ESPN
I dont think it can happen. KG wont leave timberwolves.
A multi-team trade discussion is underway involving the Lakers, Indiana, Minnesota and possibly a fourth team, with the Lakers getting Garnett and the Pacers getting Lamar Odom and teenage center Andrew Bynum from the Lakers. Another minor player will likely be added to make the deal work financially.
Jerry Buss and Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor spoke by phone for 20 minutes Friday. Buss reportedly ended the conversation by suggesting that Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak and Timberwolves vice president of basketball operations Kevin McHale would continue the discussion Monday.
Such a move could address the concerns of Kobe Bryant, who has demanded to be traded for more than four weeks.
Bryant met with Kupchak for about an hour Friday, a day after Garnett rejected a trade that would have sent him to Boston.
Bryant did not step down from his desire to be traded. However, Kupchak, Buss and Lakers Coach Phil Jackson met later that day to discuss options based on the assumption they would still have Bryant, The Times has learned.
That would have to involve Jermaine O'Neal, I would think, right? Get ye to the trade machine to work out the rest of these details.
UPDATE: ESPN Insider Chad Ford says the key to such a deal might be the Celtics, who could get Jermaine O'Neal, while sending the fifth pick, Gerald Green, Theo Ratliff, and Sebastian Telfair to Minnesota. At first blush the Timberwolves seem to get the short end of that, but by kissing goodbye to Garnett and eventually Ratliff's contracts, Ford points out they would gain massive cap relief next summer.
Jerry Buss and Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor spoke by phone for 20 minutes Friday. Buss reportedly ended the conversation by suggesting that Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak and Timberwolves vice president of basketball operations Kevin McHale would continue the discussion Monday.
Such a move could address the concerns of Kobe Bryant, who has demanded to be traded for more than four weeks.
Bryant met with Kupchak for about an hour Friday, a day after Garnett rejected a trade that would have sent him to Boston.
Bryant did not step down from his desire to be traded. However, Kupchak, Buss and Lakers Coach Phil Jackson met later that day to discuss options based on the assumption they would still have Bryant, The Times has learned.
That would have to involve Jermaine O'Neal, I would think, right? Get ye to the trade machine to work out the rest of these details.
UPDATE: ESPN Insider Chad Ford says the key to such a deal might be the Celtics, who could get Jermaine O'Neal, while sending the fifth pick, Gerald Green, Theo Ratliff, and Sebastian Telfair to Minnesota. At first blush the Timberwolves seem to get the short end of that, but by kissing goodbye to Garnett and eventually Ratliff's contracts, Ford points out they would gain massive cap relief next summer.
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