This one is real simple. With Turiaf being offered 4-years, 17 million from the Warriors, it is more likely than not the Lakers will not match (though they still could). My question to you, Lakers Nation, is should we bring back the “Kwamba” as Shane likes to say?
Kwame Brown knows our system, is a physical defender, and actually, without any pressure, may be able to fit in nicely beside Pau, Odom and Bynum at times (play a little PF). We can sign him for a small contract possibly, and if we got him for cheap, would it be worth it? The HEAT think so. Sound off!
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minimum!!!
OMG!!! I have a headache now…
yeah bring back his defense is better than paus and a 3 year 10 million wouldnt be bad
no way! unless Kwame wants to be paid with peanuts.
i think we r all going to miss Turiaf ALOT but if we can get him 4 the bare minimum then y not
Despite whether you like the dude or not, with Turiaf leaving, we may need to look into another big.
$100,000 for one year if we can’t get ANY of our free agent/trade targets.
He could pay the Lakers to be on the team and I would still tell him to go kick rocks.
Somebody got up on the wrong side of…..THE CRACKPIPE!
And people thought I was trippin’ with my Pietrus rants,get Josh Smith,Ryan Gomes….damn…I’d my grandmother in a wheelchair smoking a newport with tubes in her lungs over Kwame.
PLEASE GIVE US LAKER FANS SOME REAL NEWS!
I wouldnt waste my peanuts on that guy!!! An elephant has more tricks than Kwamba.
yes i would yea his game is suspect but he is young in have an big body he iz an good denfeder & phil likes him he also knows the lakers system he is an good sub player bynum go head in get him mitch …. its not like he gonna start we juss need him 2 play defense which he do
No.
SIGN KWAMBA TO A 3 YEAR 3 MILL CONTARACT
…NO!
NO!
I have more faith in Mbenga than I do in Kwame’s oven mitt hands.
Kwame would be a great fit off the bench he was not a starter for us but with his toughness and no pressure he can thrive off the bench for bynum and gasol
They sign kwame and mitch will be a joke again. He was brilliant last year in unloading sorry a.s.s players and cant bring them back…
NO
hey half our roster has sorry a.s.s players so I think we should bring back there king KWAME BROWN
rather have an old kurt thomas than kwame
Some people might not agree on signing him but I would totally do it. It is always about money. The one thing that I knew we were going to miss with him being gone was his physicality on the defensive end. He provides that banging body that would of helped on Kendrick Perkins. The problem with Kwame before was that he was expected to come in and do what Pau and Bynum are now going to do on the offensive end. For DEFENSIVE PURPOSES think of a line up of the following players:
Fisher
Kobe
Bynum
Kwame
Ariza
rather have a sorry a.s.s underachiever then an old a.s.s kurt thomas
Great post, I dont know why so many people here hate the guy but what you just posted is exactly what our team needs defensive physicality. Plus everthing he gives us offensively is a bonus. One thing for sure about Kwame is no one pushed him around.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again other than Shaq nobody’s stronger than Kwame inside.
Bring him back Mitch!!!! Vet minimum.
WOW HAVE you guys lost your damn mind. never ever ever. KWAME BACK? jesus. dont act like were desperate. His Defense? hahaha so overrated. he cant play any defense, people just said he could because if they realized he sucked. then he would be completely useless. jesus christ
I knew this would be a great post to read
yea bring him back and offer him the max contract..
seriously i think with turiaf possible gone is going to be a good option..
Kwame wouldn’t be my first option, but if the Lakers fail to acquire other PFs, which is a possbility, then bringing back Kwame would be a possibility.
The problem is, Kwame was first brought to the Lakers to be a power forward, but he preferred, and was a more effective, as a center. Kwame doesn’t have much of an outside/post-up game, so him playing closer to the rim (i.e. the center position) benefit’s Kwame.
kwame back OMG…….
people see kwame and expect so much from him
Kwame does what he does best, rebound and defend, he’ll never be a scorer
fact is, Kwame is a quality big man in this league, and i say we give him a miilion per year contract
NOT EVEN FOR FREE
yes!!! i been saying that this is what we need to do.. look up the stats that kg put up while being defended by kwame.. he is big and plays defense.. i know with everyone its usually “what have you done for me lately”.. but everyone just close your eyes.. think back.. when mihm was playing good.. who stepped in after he got hurt?… who was playing like a beast to take a 3-1 lead on phoenix?.. look with kwame just expected to be a defense pressense and nothing else he will be just what we need.. he can play center when bynum sits or play PF when pau sits down.. this would be great for us.. if we lose ronny we NEED to look at Kwame.. and i say sign him.. plus he is Jerry loves him.. they are neighbors..
With Turiaf getting a well deserved contract from the Warriors, we need a back up at the center position,Kurt Thomas sounds like a viable option but we are gonna get in a bidding war with the Spurs and that will rise his price tag,which I think for him at 35 years old it might be around $2 or $2.5 mill a season,but to be honest,I thought about the possibility of bring back Kwame Brown and it doesn’t sounds like crazy,he is not an all star player but the guy can play just fine when he is consistent and confident with his game,also the fact the he knows the triangle,knows the organization and the players I’m totally on board if he comes back…we need physical players and Kwame could help us rebounding and protecting the paint.Think about this second unit:
PG Farmar
SG Vujacic(if he comes back) or Ariza
SF Radmanovic
PF Odom
C Kwame
you might think Mihm playing the center, but I don’t see the guy with our team next season.So I don’t think is that crazy.
Benga is no longer under contract, right? So the only back up center we have is Mihm considering we use Pau at Power forward? I wouldn’t be opposed to picking up Kwame as a back up for no more than 1 mil a season especially since Turiaf is gone
People are basing their judgment off the type of player he is.
FEW are realizing that we need some bigs right now believe it or not. Kwame would be an ideal backup for cheap.
SIGN HIM!!!
uh…NO…why are we even discussing this
After what Kwame put fans through during that stretch before he got traded, a lot of us have to believe that the dude simply doesn’t want to play ball anymore.
At the same time, I guess I’m kind of coming around. If the Lakers do grab Kwame, it’ll be for dirt cheap… and that’ll make the Pau trade that much more brilliant. Kwame is a good backup… and we saw evidence of that when he was coming off the bench behind Andrew. If something were to happen where he weaseled his way back into the starting role… then I would be concerned.
Kwame also has experience in as a Laker, with Phil Jackson, and with the Triangle
he would be an ideal pickup for cheap
ahahahah idk ummm only if he signs for minimum… lol we all hated kwame and now he mite come back.LOL
I say bring him back but don’t pay him very well and keep it a small contract. What we need in the middle is defense, we have the offense. In the finals we had a problem with people driving to the basket against us because of our interior defense. With Kwame in there he could prevent some of those shots. He is still very young at only 26 so there is always room for improvement even though it is Kwame Brown! If and when we do sign Bynum he could be a great backup and put in some great minutes and maybe cause some trouble for the other team while we are on defense. Everyone remembers how bad his hands were but now we have three great scorers, well maybe only two great ones and one inconsistent one but all in all we don’t need Kwame to scorer or even touch the ball that often he just needs to play some stellar defense
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ixflxnMD3WI
YES! BRING BACK KWAME. WE NEED A BIG MAN AND SOME COMEDIC RELIEF. HE PROVIDED GOOD LOCKEROOM FODDER AND FIT IN WELL WITH THE TEAM. He’S KOBE’S MAN!
What aboue hell to the NO !
2 words, UH UH..
yea i will sign him only fo free and tell him to bring me a DR.Pepper and some waffle fries
Sign Kwame for a minimum that´s it face it guys if Turiaf leaves we need another big man so yea just sign Kwame.
He can be a good fit. Hes actually big enough to stop player like Perkins from destroying us. He just needs to improve his ball handling skills and finishing at the rim. Everything else he does good. He defends 1 on 1, he can defend the pick and roll pretty well, he can also set mad screens.
Wouldn’t mind having Kwame back in L.A., but the Miami Heat is interested in him.
WHY …. cuz of his Butter finger or his OVERRATED defense ? no…..i rather sign DJ than kwame !
nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tell the lakers to pay me instead. At least I will catch the ball when it is thrown to me
after he said all those things to lakers orgenezation, saying that phil jackson didnt know how to play me and all that {Profanity isn't allowed on theLakersNation.com -- Please go back and edit your comment. Thank you.}…. don’t bring trash back
He sucked when we had him because he was overpaid and couldn’t fulfill the role we needed him to fill. You cure that by paying him a reasonable amount and asking him to play a limited role. Kwame Brown is not a worthless player… He can help.
Absolutley NOT!
we do not need kwame brown
I’d rather jump off the top of the Sears Tower onto a bunch of 10 feet tall spikes.
Sign him for the league minimum and immediately start throwing passes at him.Like 2000 a day until the season starts.He could be a good,cheap defensive minded back up for a few minutes a game.
bring KWAMBO SLICE back!!!
i’d take him over mihm, mbenga, coby carl, and newble any day..
i think he’d play better with less pressure and off the bench.. remember kwambo was having a pretty decent year before he severly sprained his ankle gettin up high to block andre miller’s shot.. and he did pwned garnett a bit while he was still in minnesota..
give him a million and give him his old number back..he should be happy then..
No what mitch has to do its match da offer please mitch do it if ur gonna waste money to sign kwame or thomas y not waste 2 more millions to sign a player that leaves his heart in the court and its our energy guy he is also a young player that has alot to improve so dont just let him go if u signed that jerk of fluke why not turiaf.
I rather have Kurt Thomas’s experience and 15 ft. jumper.
Or anyone that can actually catch the ball …
kurt thomas cant do a 15 ft juper any more
kurt thomas is better. how real is this trae for artest
ll Be Quoted
Kurt thomas cant beat a player from a jr high basketball team, and hurt his back while doing so
as much as i hate to see turiaf sign with another team, there is nothing anyone can do about it unless the lakers really want to match the offer, which i highly doubt.
like i said before, if we only brought back kwame to bolster the bench behind bynum and pau playing f/c and just defend, rebound, and block shots it would be enough for him to do. also we should seriously consider bringing back MO EVANS. i said it numerous times. with pietrus, maggette, and posey not making up his mind i think its best to bring him back. he would lose his rotation on the magic since they already have turkoglu, lewis, bogans and now pietrus.
bring back kwame and mo evans and right there we add 2 capable defenders to our bench. we would still be very strong with those 2 and bring back sasha as a shooter. or we can go with experience and add brent barry too for shooting.
No way in hell should we bring back that idiot of a basketball player. If the Lakers are that desperate then why not check out the D-Fenders. Didn’t they create that team for a purpose? I swear, the entire D-League roster is better than that guy (his name even makes the blog mediocre…)
That’s a great suggestion and I’m not being sarcastic. We do need another big off the bench. I’m sorry…Chris Mihm does not do it for me. As pointed out earlier, Kwame knows the system. We’re not asking him to be the 4th scorer. He would just come out for defensive and rebounding purposes, and he’s got good size as for at the center/power forward position. Besides, there’s no risk involved when we don’t have to worry about his big contract that LA used to pay.
why you hatin on kwamba he only cost us a playoff series and traded caron butler for him
We should be thankful that he was on our team, I litterly cried when I found out he was traded, and more dissapointed when i found out that Gasol would never be like him
come back kwame we will only boo you when you step on the court
lets use all the money we have available and get kwame brown, mo evans, brent barry and trade for malik rose. also bring sun yue over and sign him to the roster.
are you fukin serious? you cried when he was traded? :sigh:
they have no money
it was a very tough moment for we traded one of the greatest player to put on the laker uniform
hahahahahahahahahaha, great like Magic and Kobe or great like Travis Knight and Mark Madsen?
we should sign him to a 10 year 200million contract
no f*ckin way this man is a bonified scrub
lol, you’re funny
hmmm lets see the guy misses DUNKS LAYUPS CANT DRIBBLE AND GOT THE BOOOOO BIRDS AT STAPLES DO YOU GUYS NOT REMEMBER HOW BAD KWAME IS??????????? HE DIDNT EVEN GET PLAYING TIME IN MEMPHIS
1.2 million for Kwame.. vets min
3.6 million for Sasha.. resign doesn’t count towards MLE
5.8 million for Posey.. using all MLE
Fisher/Farmar/ Yue
Kobe/ Sasha/ Ariza
Lamar/ Posey/ Luke/ Vlad
Gasol/ Kwame
Bynum/ Mihm
Not even if he