OrlDave wrote:
Harkless. Really had we not taken back Harrington (which I still to this day can't fathom) we would have 3 pretty good players and (meh) picks for Dwight. Two are bone-fide starters today, with Harkless having potential to be one down the road. It's really not a bad trade in retrospect.
In other, related news... I googled the picks we got in the trade and this quote was in the Sentinel at the time.
"That said, the only way the Magic don’t get a protected pick from the Lakers for the 2017 draft is if the Lakers are terrible in 2012-13 and fail to make the playoffs. That’s not going to happen."
It then goes on to say... "But if the Lakers don’t make the playoffs until 2013-14, the Magic would get a Lakers’ protected first-round pick in 2018. If by some miracle the Lakers don’t make the playoffs in any of the next three seasons, the Magic would not get a first-round pick from the Lakers and instead would get the Lakers’ second-round pick in 2017 and the Lakers’ second-round pick in 2018 because of the CBA rule that prevents a team from trading a first-round pick seven years out."
If Dwight leaves it is entirely possible that the Lakers spend the next 3 years in the lottery and we're out a 1st round pick.
as blasphemous as it sounds, we should be rooting for the lakers to make the playoffs. I mean, they'll get bounced in the 1st round anyway so who cares right?