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It came out today in the meeting w/ Magic Johnson and Jim/Mitch that the first proposed trade was CP3 for Bynum, however, Jim was very attached to Bynum and fought to have it be Pau and LO instead. Magic was reportedly floored he said you could have had Kobe, CP3, Pau, LO and Artest in Dec 2011? You may have cost the Lakers championships.

The league would most likely have been fine w/ the trade of a young all-star starter Bynum for CP3.

Jim also turned down Bynum for Melo and Bynum for Bosh in Feb 2011. Jim also was accused of not showing love to Howard and behind the scenes he said Drew could do what Howard did in 2012. Jim was very fond of Bynum.

Jim also was very fond of Sacre and turned down Whiteside in '14 in favor of Sacre.

Magic thinks that Jerry thought he was setting up his son to run a contender when he gave Jim power to make minor moves and that the Lakers were not in rebuilding mode. That it takes a different skill set to rebuild.

Thoughts? Was Jim right or wrong? Are Magic/Jeanie wrong for leaking this?

well it certainly cost at least a finals run, most likely multiple finals runs and at least one more ring.
CP3 was (still is but to a lesser extent) freakishly good, had top 5 value nearly every season he was healthy IMO.

I think its bad to leak, unless you want to of course keep making Jim look like a moron, and Jim was certainly wrong, in every which way. We won our championships with Gasol at center for the most part, Bynum at the 5 worked well with #s but he was never close to the overall player Pau was in terms of smarts in the low post, and it costed us effectiveness going forward when he became our focal big man. Trading him for CP3 in hindsight wouldve been selling high, at the time, I think most people would've taken someone like CP3 as well, considering his youth and dominance at that point.

CP3 also would've been amazing to have in the post Phil transition, he's pretty much has the ability to run a team successfully himself.