Hey Laker Fans!

**Donkeyboy2190** · 01-23-2013, 07:59 PM

Enjoy the lottery

**fatroider** · 01-23-2013, 08:27 PM

those assholes will probably win the #1 pick

**Ridic Too** · 01-23-2013, 08:30 PM

They will still make the playoffs. Kobe won't let them stay this bad.

**Vyb** · 01-23-2013, 08:35 PM

Where's Ted?

**Popeye Saavedra** · 01-23-2013, 08:36 PM

I hope the Lakers can salvage this season. I really do, but goddamn they are sucking right now.

**Nantrax** · 01-23-2013, 08:38 PM

Some people are already asking that Dantoni be fired. I'm sure having 3 head coaches on the payroll would be a great idea

**Vyb** · 01-23-2013, 08:38 PM

Griz pwn the Lakers after their big

season-changing meeting

in my hometown

I'm a Griz season ticket holder and where am I?

Goddamn downtown LA.

**Donkeyboy2190** · 01-23-2013, 08:39 PM

Kinda disappointed. This is a normal thread. I expected all the trolls to come out. That being said, they're fighting now and it can't be hidden anymore. They're an old team that has the absolute wrong coach for their personnel.

**Popeye Saavedra** · 01-23-2013, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by Nantrax

Some people are already asking that Dantoni be fired. I'm sure having 3 head coaches on the payroll would be a great idea

They shouldn't have hired him in the first place.

**fatroider** · 01-23-2013, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by Vyb

Where's Ted?

Don't get too excited. I wouldn't be surprised if the Lakers somehow traded Artest and Jamison for Rudy Gay.

**Donkeyboy2190** · 01-23-2013, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by Nantrax

Some people are already asking that Dantoni be fired. I'm sure having 3 head coaches on the payroll would be a great idea

Jim Buss needs to swallow his pride and do the right thing, get Phil.

**Popeye Saavedra** · 01-23-2013, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by Donkeyboy2190

Kinda disappointed. This is a normal thread. I expected all the trolls to come out. That being said, they're fighting now and it can't be hidden anymore. They're an old team that has the absolute wrong coach for their personnel.

No point in trolling really. Even the Lakers fans like myself admit that the team sucks balls right now. Not sure why anyone would get upset about someone pointing that out.

**Popeye Saavedra** · 01-23-2013, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by Donkeyboy2190

Jim Buss needs to swallow his pride and do the right thing, get Phil.

Yeah, he really should have just paid the fucker whatever he wanted.

**Vyb** · 01-23-2013, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by fatroider

Don't get too excited. I wouldn't be surprised if the Lakers somehow traded Artest and Jamison for Rudy Gay.

**Donkeyboy2190** · 01-23-2013, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by Popeye Saavedra

Yeah, he really should have just paid the fucker whatever he wanted.

Jerry Buss would've made it happen. Jim is not good for the team long term.

**Vyb** · 01-23-2013, 08:44 PM

Yeah, not hiring Phil was pretty weird.

**Donkeyboy2190** · 01-23-2013, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by Vyb

Yeah, not hiring Phil was pretty weird.

It wasn't the not hiring for me so much as it was the way they handled it. He asked until Monday and they called him in the middle of the night to tell him they went somewhere different.

**fatroider** · 01-23-2013, 08:49 PM

Phil was asking for too much. He wanted part ownership and wanted the ability to have his assistants coach when he wanted. Fuck that shit.

A small stake in ownership, according to the LA Times. The terms were not specified.
Complete personnel control. According to Ric Bucher of CSN Bay Area, Jackson wanted executive VP Jim Buss to give up control of basketball operations.
He wanted Brian Shaw and Scottie Pippen on his coaching staff. Shaw is currently an assistant with the Pacers, and is widely considered one of the best assistants in the league. It's unclear what it would have taken to bring him to LA.
He wanted travel restrictions, including allowing assistants to coach games and run shootarounds, according to Marc Spears of Yahoo!. An ESPN report this morning said Phil never intended to skip any more road games than he did in past years, however.
He would have earned a lot more than D'Antoni. ESPN says salary was never discussed, but Jackson may have earned somewhere around $10 million per year, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! mentioned in a column over the weekend. D'Antoni will make $4 million per year.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/phil-...#ixzz2IrSeWX3o

**Vyb** · 01-23-2013, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by fatroider

Phil was asking for too much. He wanted part ownership and wanted the ability to have his assistants coach when he wanted. Fuck that shit.

A small stake in ownership, according to the LA Times. The terms were not specified.
Complete personnel control. According to Ric Bucher of CSN Bay Area, Jackson wanted executive VP Jim Buss to give up control of basketball operations.
He wanted Brian Shaw and Scottie Pippen on his coaching staff. Shaw is currently an assistant with the Pacers, and is widely considered one of the best assistants in the league. It's unclear what it would have taken to bring him to LA.
He wanted travel restrictions, including allowing assistants to coach games and run shootarounds, according to Marc Spears of Yahoo!. An ESPN report this morning said Phil never intended to skip any more road games than he did in past years, however.
He would have earned a lot more than D'Antoni. ESPN says salary was never discussed, but Jackson may have earned somewhere around $10 million per year, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! mentioned in a column over the weekend. D'Antoni will make $4 million per year.