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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

Sounds like he's happy to be here. Nice to hear. Thank you.

Nice. He's pissing himself happy. Someone get a ballboy to clean that up. And mine too.

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

Oppps. I wouldnt like to have gasol as a close friend. look what are you taking from memphis. He leaves in that "team-going-nowhere-for-years" his brothers and his best friend. he is completly the opposite of michael Scofield! Even Scofield could make Navarro and M.Gasol brake out of that prison.

^Haven't you heard? Prison Break sucks now.

His brother is still overseas so he's got some time before he thinks about joining Navarro.

Sad to see Marc Gasol go though

they mustve just traded mbenga than marc

No problem Pau just get us that chip

hey milesfides..

very nice sig..makes me pumped for the postseason

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 .

I am curious to know player reactions from the rest of the league. anyone know what players or coaches have said?

rayofsunshine wrote:I am curious to know player reactions from the rest of the league. anyone know what players or coaches have said?

Ya I do and here it is .

Oh Dam , Were screwed ..... The lakers are back at it again .
Well never see a title for another 5 years ...... Again

Interesting also this part (copied from Grizzlies forum, by poster Pipedream; http://grizzlies.infopop.cc/eve/forums/ ... 4511029432):



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If thats true about LO for Miller and warrick... Id almost trade LO for MM straight up.

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Ya I do and here it is .

Oh Dam , Were screwed ..... The lakers are back at it again .
Well never see a title for another 5 years ...... Again

Ok, let me rephrase. What are they saying in public to the media?

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?

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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.

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.

how did gasol not see this coming he's been in trade rumors for a couple of years
and i'd be overjoyed if i was traded to the lakers