[marvin248]

Originally Posted by TheLakersNation.com

RealGM: Kobe Bryant has admitted that he wouldn’t mind playing alongside Artest, and there is a growing belief that the strong personalities of Bryant and Coach Phil Jackson could help keep Artest in line.

As a restricted free agent, Ron would have to take a pay cut to the projected midlevel exception of approximately $5.6 million.

A sign-and-trade doesn’t seem to make sense as the Lakers will likely be looking to unload a bad contract like Vladimir Radmanovic.

To tell you the truth..I love artest, hes a great player, I would love for him to be on the team. But if we do deside to get him, IMO the player who is gonna have to hit the road is most likley lamar. Cause we're paying are starters a hella lot of money.

I'm not too much of an expert on contracts, cap room etc..But I don't think we'll be able to pay kobe,gasol,lamar,and artest the money we're paying them right now if we do get artest.

And for me, lamar fits in more with the system we're running (the triangle) all our starters are either great or good passers. I don't see artest as a good fit for us, but I mean, I can see phil putting him in off the bench the 4th quarter, in a close game for some shut outs in the defensive end. But do you honeslty think artrest will go for that..? Not being a starter..? I really doubt he would.

Either way, I WANT him on the team, with still keeping lamar, if mitch does manage to do that, we're gonna have to let go a good portion of our bench, and it will IMO fuc* up our rotation that works so well..

I don't know man, I don't even want to try to figure it out, its too complicated. If this does go down, we'll just have to see how it will work out..

[Ballomania]

Kobe, Artest, Odom, Gasol and Bynum?

That's a little too much star power if you ask me.

[Jayc15]

what does IMO stand for?

dat be a nice team...
like boston...

[marvin248]

In My Opinion ,

[Jemcee]

If they get artest "La Laker's ain't nuthin to fuk wid"

That will b pretty ridiculous knowing there luck they prob wont have to give up nothin either... if they do it will b only like radmanovic

[Gold Lion ®]

Could you imagine the possibilities defensively with a line-up of........

Point Guard-Derek Fisher

Shooting Guard-Kobe Bryant

Small Forward-Ron Artest

Power Forward-Pau Gasol

Center-Andrew Bynum

[sniperdog614]

With Artest they would become a team with a lot of weapons both on offense and defense. It would automatically convert one of the best starting line-ups in the league to one of the best in NBA history, on paper of course. It gives me chills just thinking about a line-up but its too much into the distance to think about. Plus its unlikely Artest would take such a steep paycut when its potentially the last big salary he will earn, all depends on how much Artest wants to be on a title-contending team.

[Tha_Truth34]

this trade would make the lakers scarier than ron's rap album

[tmac_for_MVP]

Man if they sign him, they should trade Odom for a PG after and use Fisher as a 6th man, they desperately need a pure passer.

[King-Wade]

i doubt they'll be able to get him. hes the kings leader.(even though he's been saying he wants to leave/stay)