Archive for June, 2007
Lakers were right there for KG. Now begins “Phase Two” as Mitch explains it. I like the sound of it, Lakers are after KG and we seem very aggresive. Go “Get Garnett” Mitch!
PE.com: Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said he “thought we got close” to making something happen.
“But until you have a deal that’s approved, you don’t have a deal,” he said Thursday. “At times we thought we were pretty close here in the last couple of weeks. But here it is draft day, and the deal that we hoped we could get done, we did not get done. But it’s just Phase One. We start again tomorrow and work through the summer.“
Stein writes there are six possible locations for KG to go; Suns, Dallas, Chicago, Boston, Golden State and the Lakers! Good read, he breaks down why each team is in the KG hunt.
ESPN: You naturally want to know what happens next with Kevin Garnett.
We do, too.
Yet we all have to get in line behind the Minnesota Timberwolves, since they don’t know either.
After all those years of rejecting outside interest, they’ve been working feverishly to trade Garnett for at least two weeks. Only now Minnesota faces the uncertainty of starting over when Free Agency Season commences at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, knowing it realistically needs at least two other teams to get involved to complete a trade of this magnitude — and knowing it’ll be even tougher to construct a digestible deal than it proved leading up to the first KG deadline, also known as the NBA draft.
Getting a deal done by Thursday night was so crucial because Minnesota’s hope was to trade Garnett for at least one top-10 pick to go with the Wolves’ own No. 7 selection, at least one payroll-slashing contract and at least one top-shelf youngster. Or another top-10 pick in place of the youngster.
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From the Dallas news regarding the “speculation” around getting KG:
Dallas Morning News: “As for the rumor, the Mavericks were linked in speculation with the Minnesota Timberwolves about a trade for Kevin Garnett, but that speculation proved groundless.”
Keep those torches lit. A lot of stuff from the latest article on McHale & the Wolves from the Star Tribune. There is a lot of stuff in this article that indicates KG will indeed be gone before the start of the season in my opinion.
Star Tribune: … While McHale continues to say Kevin Garnett will be a part of his team, he hinted strongly that the Wolves roster will continue to be restructured through trades.
“We’ve had a lot of different talks with a lot of different teams,” he said. “So I think there is probably a few deals we’re pretty far down the road on. But again … there is a rhythm to the league. Deals you talk about at the trade deadline usually start happening now. And deals you talk a lot about at this time happen after the draft, after everyone knows who they’ve picked and at what position. … So now my first priority will probably be to pursue a few more trades.”
Remember how he said the Lakers were talking to the Wolves at the deadline last year about KG at the deadline? Hmmm…
Here’s the latest from the AZ’s East Valley Tribune. They open the article by saying KG will NOT be in Arizona, and that the Suns have shifted their focus onto signing Grant Hill.
East Valley Tribune: Now that it is clear that Kevin Garnett will not be in Arizona, the Phoenix Suns are shifting their attention to trying to lure Grant Hill to the desert, the Arizona Republic is reporting.
A lot of us are wondering how exactly Garnett’s trade kicker works. Larry Coon stepped in and answered it for us. Thanks, Larry!
First of all, the kicker is $6.75M whether he’s traded before or after July 1.
It’s charged to the cap over two seasons (06-07 and 07-08) if he’s traded before July 1. It’s all charged to the 07-08 cap if he’s traded after July 1. So if he’s traded after July 1, then LA has $28.75M incoming — both in salary and in cap hit.
Garnett can waive all or a portion of that $6.75M, but only to the extent that it allows a deal to go through. If a trade is legal with him taking his bonus (or some portion of it), then he doesn’t have the option to waive it.
Here is a very surprising news piece. Mentions of KG and Marion.
P.E.com: The Lakers put the draft behind them Friday, content with the three choices they made the night before but not entirely satisfied because of their inability to pull off a trade that could have changed the course of the organization.
The players the Lakers selected — point guard Javaris Crittenton with the 19th pick in the first round and second-round choices Sun Yue (No. 40) and Marc Gasol (48) — are not expected to have an impact next season.
What the Lakers still hope for is to acquire an impact player who can put them back among the elite. Earlier in the week they reportedly were trying to get All-Star forward Kevin Garnett from Minnesota for Lamar Odom, Andrew Bynum and a draft pick, but were turned down, even after the Lakers tried to make it a four-team deal.
However, league sources said the Lakers will wait out the Garnett saga in hopes they can persuade Minnesota general manager Kevin McHale with the right deal.
The same sources said the Lakers turned down a trade request from Phoenix that would have brought four-time All-Star forward Shawn Marion to Los Angeles for Odom and a second player to make the deal work financially.
Continue reading ‘Lakers turn back focus to finding impact player’
Am not sure if the Times have a source or their just making this out of this air but it is interesting none-the-less.
N.Y. Times: Any stargazing done by N.B.A. general managers will be focused on a three-man constellation of disenchanted franchise players: Garnett in Minnesota, Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles and Jermaine O’Neal in Indiana.
All indications are that Garnett is the most likely to be traded, Bryant the least likely. And if O’Neal or Garnett somehow end up in a Lakers uniform, then Bryant is surely staying put.
I know how much you guys liked the Shoutbox but it was just something our servers couldn’t handle. We started to look for a different solution for our visitors to interact with eachother and talk Laker basketball. Hopefully, this little chatroom we found does the trick.
Click on the chat button on the sidebar to join the new chat room for GetGarnett.com.
Enjoy!
The latest from the Star Tribune has the Wolves head coach saying he is operating as if KG will be in a Wolves uniform next season. Interestingly enough, the article does say the desicion is up to the owner (further clearifying it’s not McHale’s desicion – but Taylor’s).
Star Tribune: … Wittman, though, is operating as though Garnett will be in a Wolves uniform come October.
Many saw draft day as a sort of deadline for the Wolves to make a move. Sunday could be another. Garnett’s $6.75 million trade kicker would count totally against a team’s 2007-08 salary cap should a trade be made after that date. It might be more difficult to trade Garnett if he carried a salary cap hit of nearly $29 million for next season.
“He’s too valuable to us to just make a deal to make a deal,” Wittman said. “As I said before, I hope he is here [in October]. But those are decisions that the owner and management will look at.”
Continue reading ‘Star Tribune: Wittman plans on having KG this season’
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