Gasol few hours after knowing the news
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Gasol few hours after knowing the news
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Gasol few hours after knowing the news
I think it deserves its own thread (moderators move it if there is another thread for this pls).
He is speaking in Spanish but you can feel he looks astonished.
"I hope it will become an amazing dream...,and well,...I still cannot believe it.....They have told me the news very few hours ago...and....it is shocking that all of a sudden, in minutes, you are in a great team, in a team with the greatest NBA tradition ..with a really strong team and with chances to win the championship..so personally and professionally I am very very pleased, very happy, ... but...in shock now"
Audio Link (Spanish): http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/balo ... 85437.html
He is speaking in Spanish but you can feel he looks astonished.
"I hope it will become an amazing dream...,and well,...I still cannot believe it.....They have told me the news very few hours ago...and....it is shocking that all of a sudden, in minutes, you are in a great team, in a team with the greatest NBA tradition ..with a really strong team and with chances to win the championship..so personally and professionally I am very very pleased, very happy, ... but...in shock now"
Audio Link (Spanish): http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/balo ... 85437.html
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milesfides wrote:shock my ass, i wonder what he and kobe were talking about last summer
yeah, kobe looked shocked too, so shocked he memorized a prepared statement
YUP , tell em Miles .
I said the same thing , this deal was in the making since last summer.
Pau , Kobe , Buss all three of them knew WTH was going on .
Jerry West was the center piece in this deal.
He kept silence about it , and so did everyone else .
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Interesting also this part (copied from Grizzlies forum, by poster Pipedream; http://grizzlies.infopop.cc/eve/forums/ ... 4511029432):
[color=darkblue]"The incoming text message apologized for not getting back to me sooner, and said
[color=darkblue]"The incoming text message apologized for not getting back to me sooner, and said
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[quote="TonyMontana"][/quote]
To say that Kobe, Pau, and Buss planned this because they met last summer, and then to insinuate that Jerry was involved in this for quite some time is quite a big jump, need to have proof for the latter.
Quite frankly, I think people are making too big out of this supposed "raping." Just look at what the Hornets got for Baron Davis, the Raptors got for Vince. I'd say the Grizzlies got back quite a bit, compared to those trades.
It just happens that in this case, we were already a strong team, made into a dominant team, which tends to make people think this is a much better trade than it was, but in reality, this trade is no more of a "raping" than those others. Heck, if the Bulls had pulled off such a trade, I doubt anyone would have cared.
To say that Kobe, Pau, and Buss planned this because they met last summer, and then to insinuate that Jerry was involved in this for quite some time is quite a big jump, need to have proof for the latter.
Quite frankly, I think people are making too big out of this supposed "raping." Just look at what the Hornets got for Baron Davis, the Raptors got for Vince. I'd say the Grizzlies got back quite a bit, compared to those trades.
It just happens that in this case, we were already a strong team, made into a dominant team, which tends to make people think this is a much better trade than it was, but in reality, this trade is no more of a "raping" than those others. Heck, if the Bulls had pulled off such a trade, I doubt anyone would have cared.
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ak777 wrote:so its ok if all those celtics bastards to group and make deals between them and when the lakers get togheter and do the deal the entire west confrerenece if furious at the poor grizzles?
They're angry because they're afraid. They're afraid what a trio of Bynum, Kobe and Pau will do to them. I mean, that's like having a young Duncan and a Kobe, still relatively in his prime together, and then add a 19-9 guy to that mix.
Then you add Odom to that mix, and it simply becomes ridiculous.