Should take Lakers take interest during the off-season? Sound-off in the comments and tell us what you think!
ESPN: Gilbert Arenas lived up to his word and opted out of the final year of his contract, the Washington Wizards said Monday.
The move had been long expected. Arenas has repeatedly said he would forgo the final year of his six-year, $65 million deal so that he could re-sign with the team for an even larger amount.
Arenas can begin negotiating with any team on July 1. While he has expressed a desire to remain with the Wizards, he has also said he won’t return unless the team also re-signs Antawn Jamison, who is also set to become a free agent.
Wizards president Ernie Grunfeld has said he wants to re-sign both Arenas and Jamison.
Arenas, a three-time All-Star, missed most of last season after two operations on his left knee. He has averaged 22.8 points,
Arenas says L.A. is a possible destination when he opts out next season
Free agency looms over Lakers’ season
Source: LA Clubs to pursue Arenas
Agent Zero for Mamba?
BREAKING NEWS: Lakers, Andrew Bynum agree to four-year deal
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i would love to see either agent zero in a purp and gold jersey or Baron Davis just do it Mitch
we can’t afford him!
yeah just do it u can do it
Hah! The most the Lakers have to offer is the MLE, there’s no way Arenas would take that kind of money when he’s looking to get a max deal in his prime. Love Gil, but that is not even remotely a possibility.
he’s a volume shooter…i dont know if its such a good idea…obviously there is no talk at all yet about him coming here..but im sure mitch will make the right decision
I think that the Lakers would be worse (hard to imagine that now) because Agent Zero lusts to score and we already have Kobe, Pau, Odom and soon to be Bynum. Naw…maybe sign him and trade him to another team for a reasonable group of players. Farmar and Fish are all we need to run the point and Agent Zero would need to learn the triangle and thats one of the hardest offences to run.
Get Artest
no, the clippers will go after him. duh!
Yeah, why don’t we add Lebron and Greg Oden as well!
The only way the Lakers could do this would be a sign and trade to make contracts match, but as someone mentioned earlier, the Lakers can’t afford him..
way too expensive!
nope. lakers will most likely get artest at mle.
imagine starting lineup:
fisher
bryant
artest
odom
gasol
bench:
farmar
vujacic
ariza
radmonovic
bynum
turiaf
walton
or
fisher
bryant
odom
gasol
bynum
bench:
farmar
vujacic
artest
ariza
walton
turiaf
radmonovic
If Arenas wants to win and would take less money, then there is an opportunity that he could become a laker. Other wise, we don’t need him.
He said he wants to TEST free agency, meaning whoever has the highest bid wins. meaning not LA. IM GOING TO GO OUT ON A LIMN AND SAY HE WILL PROBABLY GO TO THE CAVALEIRS WITH LEBRON OR TO THE CLIPPERS OR OR TO THE WARRIORS, WHERE HE CAN JACK UP AS MANY 3s AS HE WANTS.
Is Zero is in town.. where will Sasha go? They both shoot too much !!! LOL
Trade Radman, Farmer GET Artes. We need tuff Defenders!!!!!!!
Our three biggest improvements this past year was getting rid of Smush Parker, Kwame Brown and Brian Cook.
I’m looking for similar huge improvents after this season when we get rid of Smush Walton and Vlad. (And if pothead Lame-ar doesn’t wake up I’d give him the boot too.) After seeing the total lack of aggressiveness in the finals I’ve seen the light. We should sign ARTEST.
Imagine having Artest to guard Pierce right now. Wow that would really help our defense and he is an asset offensively as well.
GetArtest.Com. !
WHY DO YOU ALL WANT TO GET ARTEST?????
He’s horrible, nothing but a cancer to a team.
what has he ever won?????
you guys are idiots!
Mr. T.A.,
Winning wins all cures. If Ron Artest comes to play for L.A., he will behave because he wants to win a ring. Kobe and Phil will keep him in check much like what M.J. and Phil did to Dennis Rodman.
I would much rather see Jamison in a Lakers uniform. I have a feeling that Arenas and Kobe would not get along.
not bad, move kobe to sf and don’t extend LO.
Use LO’s $ to sign Agent ) but I doubt that would happen.
HE AIN’T GOIN’ NOOOOOOOOOWHERE,AGAIN,STOP POSTING STUFF ABOUT ARENAS,PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE(I LIVE IN WASHINGTON DC,REMEMBER)!!!
Artest,Maggette and Pietrus(HELL,TJ FORD IS AVAILABLE)or whoever y’all feel would fit,LET THE DISCUSSION BEGIN!
We don’t need him. That doesn’t solve anything. We are fine with offense. We need defense. Get Artest instead.
Hell no keep Farmar! He’s our best bench player besides Bynum!
From Zero to Hero.
Ok, ok… I’m focused on the finals right now haha.
get Arenas if we can or Artest I prefer Artest because of his D but then again when Andrew comes back we will b fine with him and Trever. I dont care either way! its ganna be one hell of an off-season
It’s gonna be hard having 2 highly paid, high scorers on the same team, I’d rather get Artest.
this is stupid, why even post pipe dreams like this. Sure its news but its not laker news at all. There is no way in H E L L that we can afford to extend Bynums contract, vujachic contrac, pay kobe 29 million, odom 15 million, gasol 14 million, radman 5 million, luke 4 million, and still have enough cap room to pay arenas his expected asking price of 20 million. You people are retarded. And no, we can not trade for him without giving up gasol, or odom and a role player. So stop dreaming, we have our team, no significant changes will be made for the next 5 years other than extending contracts.
TRADE LUKE WALTON AND COBY CARL FOR ARTEST!!!!!!!!!!!
WE HAVE A GREAT YOUNG TEAM HERE!!
we dont need anyone else
sure we will tweak things a lil bit in the offseason but we dont need any other starters
FISH, KOBE, LO, GASOL, BYNUM
will destroy the NBA for the next 3-4 years
what has arenas ever did anyway???
Wizards should sign him and trade him for Fluke Vlad Lamar coby And first round picks. and sign artest orrr
sign and trade Baron Davis for Luke vlad Lamar and coby and 1st round plus sign artest.
lineup.
Fisher
Baron
Kobe
Pau
Bymun
with bench or
farmar sasha artest turiaf sue yen Chris Trevor
or
Fisher
Arenas
Kobe
Pau
Bymun
bench
farmar sasha chris turiaf sue yen Trevor and artest
get me