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Mamba Venom wrote:Blake started strong. 1st season in the triangle = not his best season.

Is Farmar starting...no...then why did he leave LA when Fisher is 36...dumbass Ariza type move.

Mamba Venom wrote:Blake started strong. 1st season in the triangle = not his best season.

Is Farmar starting...no...then why did he leave LA when Fisher is 36...dumbass Ariza type move.

microfib4thewin wrote:He left LA because the Lakers didn't want him back.

microfib4thewin wrote: Ariza left because Kupchak already has his eyes on getting Artest.

microfib4thewin wrote: It's stupid to blame the players on this when it's the management who decided to not resign them.

The hope for Farmar to remain in L.A. seems far more unlikely.

Farmar started only two regular season games in his career in L.A., both in his rookie season. He averaged 4.4 points and 1.9 assists in 15.1 minutes in his first year; 9.1 and 2.7 in 20.6 in his second year; 6.4 and 2.4 in 18.3 in his third year; and 7.2 and 1.5 in 18.0 this season.

"It's definitely a struggle for me because my role hasn't expanded much in four years," Farmar said. "That was kind of the plan going into every year, to get a little more and a little more and it's kind of stayed the same."

While his role didn't expand the way he would have liked it to, he enjoyed an amazing string of success in the city, following up his NCAA championship appearance in his sophomore year at UCLA with three trips to the NBA Finals in four years and winning two rings.

"For me in my career, I've always played at a championship level," Farmar said. "I definitely want to win and that's important to me, but I don't know if I could look back at the end of my career if didn't get a chance to see what kind of player I could really be, so this free agency is kind of what it's geared towards for me. I want to check that out and see the situation, whether it be here or elsewhere, where I really get a chance to see what I can do."

Farmar said that practicing as a proxy Russell Westbrook, Deron Williams, Steve Nash and Rajon Rondo on the scout team intensified his desire to start.

"It just let me feel that again every day, having the ball," he said.

"I really want to see what kind of player I can be in this league," Farmar said. "I want an opportunity to play more. I know I can do a lot. I know I can lead a team."

When Farmar was asked prior to Game 7 if playing the Celtics in a do-or-die situation to win a championship was a dream scenario for a L.A. native like himself, Farmar said if it was truly a dream scenario, he would be the Lakers starting point guard.

"If I come off the bench and continue to, that's just what is going to happen my whole career and I'm going to be looked at as that type of player when I feel I can do so, so much more," Farmar said before later adding, "I'm just looking forward to the next phase of life."

The Lakers decided Wednesday not to give restricted guard Jordan Farmar a one-year, $3-million contract offer.

It means that Farmar becomes an unrestricted free agent, and that the Lakers could lose him and get nothing in return when the free-agency period begins at 9:01 p.m. Pacific time Wednesday.

If the Lakers had tendered Farmar a deal, known as a qualifying offer, he would have remained a restricted free agent and they would have had the rights to match any offer sheet he signed with another team.

"The Lakers cared enough to let me become a free agent," Farmar said in a phone interview. "I was excited to hear it. I was real happy. If I do decide to leave, I'll have nothing but positive things to remember about the Lakers."

laduane1 wrote:Phil does not play young players. Farmar got out to save his career. He needed time on the court and Phil does not give that to the young players. Once phil is retired. Maybe younger players will develope in LA. Plus Farmar wanted more money than the Lakers wanted to pay him. No loss

DEEP3CL wrote:True, but Jordan had checked out of here long before management decided they didn't want him back. It was a lot of stuff that went on behind the scenes.

DEEP3CL wrote:Nope microfib, your smarter than that.......you know full well the Lakers wanted to negotiate with Trev.

microfib4thewin wrote:People here also need to stop thinking that players should place playing with the Lakers above all else. If they can get an opportunity to showcase themselves or get a fatter contract by playing elsewhere, by all means they should go for it. The Lakers is probably the only basketball team where there is a sizable fanbase that consistently diss ex-players for leaving just because of 'Well, it's the Lakers, they would be stupid to join another team". Get off your high horses, there are other justified incentives for a player aside from being on a contender.

DEEP3CL wrote:Microfib, I'm not one of the guys you're trying to peg as thinking "it's the Lakers above all". I've seen many players come and go here, but I keep things in reality too, and for Trev his decision was dumb. Dumb because as a player he he let an inexperience ass agent screw him out of a solid career opportunity. I'm never mad at a player who leaves for a chance to show what he can do or get a solid financial footing for life after ball.

But I do question players who make dumb ass decisions because their agent told them, "trust me I can get you more money" or " I can get you to where you need to be". You think Trev is the first to do this ? No he isn't, for me being a guy who's seen decades of NBA ball and can name a plethora of guys who screwed themselves at the hands of putting too much trust in his agent.

Remember Drew has the same agent, and when his deal was up Drew flat out told him to get a deal done with the Lakers because he wasn't leaving LA period. Trev was just the middle man, that battle was left over residue from the Drew battle. It was always a battle between Mitch and David Lee, and we know who won both times.