ESPN: Bosh has told Colangelo he isn't Going to Resign

Malcolm · Post #1 » by **Malcolm** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 1:02 am

According to ESPN Bosh has told Colangelo he won't resign. What would you be willing to offer for him. Here is the link to the interview. It is stated about half way through.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=3877144

boshjonesford · Post #2 » by **boshjonesford** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 1:13 am

Would you guys do a injured Bynum for Bosh trade ----- that way Gasol could play centre and bosh could play PF and you guys can win the championship and the raptors could sit Bynum out for the whole season and tank

-G- · Post #3 » by **-G-** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 1:24 am

boshjonesford wrote:Would you guys do a injured Bynum for Bosh trade ----- that way Gasol could play centre and bosh could play PF and you guys can win the championship and the raptors could sit Bynum out for the whole season and tank

No. Gasol for Bosh.

lakeshow248 · Post #4 » by **lakeshow248** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 2:02 am

Bosh for Gasol team EURO for the Raps and the Lakers' with Bynum, Bosh, Bryant.

wfiles · Post #5 » by **wfiles** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 2:05 am

lakeshow248 wrote:Bosh for Gasol team EURO for the Raps and the Lakers' with Bynum, Bosh, Bryant.

i was thinking the same thing. lakers with the Killer B's. :lol:

Dr Aki · Post #6 » by **Dr Aki** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 2:15 am

boshjonesford wrote:Would you guys do a injured Bynum for Bosh trade ----- that way Gasol could play centre and bosh could play PF and you guys can win the championship and the raptors could sit Bynum out for the whole season and tank

draft day deal

re-signed odom, vladi and lakers 09 1st (pick for toronto), charlotte 09 2nd for bosh

microfib4thewin · Post #7 » by **microfib4thewin** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 3:27 am

There aren't any deals that will make sense for both sides. Gasol at center is not going to work as well as last year now that teams know how to push him off position, and I doubt Toronto would take in Gasol who is 3 years older and isn't as good of a scorer as Bosh.

CITYOFANGELSX3 · Post #8 » by **CITYOFANGELSX3** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 3:32 am

An Odom package is possible.

But I think there's no way it happens. Raptors would want top notch talent for Bosh and/or picks. Lakers have neither. They arent going to trade Pau or any of our young guys.

hermes · Post #9 » by **hermes** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 3:38 am

i like Pau, i want to keep him

probably a real long shot getting bosh here, there will be plenty of teams with plenty more money to offer him

Hunter103 · Post #10 » by **Hunter103** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 3:57 am

Akiho wrote:
boshjonesford wrote:Would you guys do a injured Bynum for Bosh trade ----- that way Gasol could play centre and bosh could play PF and you guys can win the championship and the raptors could sit Bynum out for the whole season and tank

draft day deal

re-signed odom, vladi and lakers 09 1st (pick for toronto), charlotte 09 2nd for bosh

Lakers can't trade their '09 1st because they didn't have a 1st in '08, having traded it to Memphis (along with their '10 pick) for Pau. You can't go 2 consecutive drafts without taking a 1st rounder.

EDIT: Unless you mean make the pick and trade the guy. I'm dumb. :oops:

AceFresh · Post #11 » by **AceFresh** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 4:10 am

No on letting Pau go,
If we could rape em for Odom then I'm all for it.. otherwise.

Post #12 » by **crazyeights** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 4:55 am

He wouldn't fit if we had Pau and Bynum. It's not even a pipe dream. This is zero.

Bosh wants to get paid. Like a star, not a 3rd option.

Asianiac_24 · Post #13 » by **Asianiac_24** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 6:25 am

crazyeights wrote:He wouldn't fit if we had Pau and Bynum. It's not even a pipe dream. This is zero.

Bosh wants to get paid. Like a star, not a 3rd option.

Bosh would be our second option, not third.

Post #14 » by **crazyeights** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 7:25 am

Asianiac_24 wrote:
crazyeights wrote:He wouldn't fit if we had Pau and Bynum. It's not even a pipe dream. This is zero.

Bosh wants to get paid. Like a star, not a 3rd option.

Bosh would be our second option, not third.

So we're going to be paying Kobe, Pau, Bynum.....and then Bosh? How does that work? Don't we need five guys to compete?

I'm talking how he's going to get paid, not which option he'd actually be.

You do understand the difference, right? Like when Starbury is getting $22M to sit out the year. Or Jason Kidd, $21M to slow down the Mavs. These guys are being paid franchise money. Doesn't mean they are the franchise players.

Whereas Bosh is young, hasn't had that huge contract yet and considers himself to be great. He's not going to take a pay cut to play in an ensemble. Next year we'll be paying Kobe/Pau/Bynum a combined $52M. The salary cap is around $60M.....where's the money to pay Bosh? I'd love to know.

But you're right, I was actually wrong:

Bosh wouldn't be paid like a 3rd option. More like a bench warmer. Maybe he can split the MLE with Trevor. We've had a good luck with those. Bosh can wave a towel next to DJ.

Besides the fact we can't afford it...what does Bosh do that would do to upgrade over Pau?

Guys are barely getting their minutes as is....where does Bosh fit in with Pau/Bynum?

Are we trying to get softer?

We don't need perimeter bigs. We need AB healthy and rested. Not another wiry tweener.

TorontoSF · Post #15 » by **TorontoSF** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 8:48 am

crazyeights wrote:
Asianiac_24 wrote:
crazyeights wrote:He wouldn't fit if we had Pau and Bynum. It's not even a pipe dream. This is zero.

Bosh wants to get paid. Like a star, not a 3rd option.

Bosh would be our second option, not third.

So we're going to be paying Kobe, Pau, Bynum.....and then Bosh? How does that work? Don't we need five guys to compete?

I'm talking how he's going to get paid, not which option he'd actually be.

You do understand the difference, right? Like when Starbury is getting $22M to sit out the year. Or Jason Kidd, $21M to slow down the Mavs. These guys are being paid franchise money. Doesn't mean they are the franchise players.

Whereas Bosh is young, hasn't had that huge contract yet and considers himself to be great. He's not going to take a pay cut to play in an ensemble. Next year we'll be paying Kobe/Pau/Bynum a combined $52M. The salary cap is around $60M.....where's the money to pay Bosh? I'd love to know.

But you're right, I was actually wrong:

Bosh wouldn't be paid like a 3rd option. More like a bench warmer. Maybe he can split the MLE with Trevor. We've had a good luck with those. Bosh can wave a towel next to DJ.

Besides the fact we can't afford it...what does Bosh do that would do to upgrade over Pau?

Guys are barely getting their minutes as is....where does Bosh fit in with Pau/Bynum?

Are we trying to get softer?

We don't need perimeter bigs. We need AB healthy and rested. Not another wiry tweener.

Don't have to worry about having to fit in Bosh with Pau/Bynum, if a deal would ever happen one of them would have to probably be included from the Raptors perspective. And from the Lakers perspective why would they want to break up a team 1st in the conference and develop new chemistry. I think they would do a deal involving one of them if they were unsuccessful in the playoffs again this year.

Dr Aki · Post #16 » by **Dr Aki** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 9:12 am

theres just the simple option of letting bosh play small forward, or worse comes to worse, pau plays SF

sure, its a stupid experiment but bosh/gasol has a pretty good face-up game with good range

we would have an unprecedented class and talent in the extended frontcourt

Mamba Venom · Post #17 » by **Mamba Venom** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 10:39 am

Bosh would like it in LA FYI

He could pretent its the olympics all over again with all the talent and a great coach. If history repeats itself LAL could make a trade splash. Then again other teams probably dont even pick up the phones when Mitch calls because of last year.

Post #18 » by **The Duke** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 2:54 pm

We wont do it for Gasol.

Bynum and Ariza

DreamOn · Post #19 » by **DreamOn** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 4:20 pm

^ we would do it for Pau, we wouldnt do it for Bynum. You do understand that Bynum is 21 and has shown that he has the ability to average something close to 24 ppg 13rpg and 3blks (if not better).

Trust me Bynum aint going nowhere. If we don't win it all this season i would explore the option of trading Pau for Bosh. Bosh and Bynum would compliment each other really well, Bosh's ability to face up and hit the mid range (even long range) shots.

I think this is all what IF'S!!! look for him to sign with either D-Wade or LeBron

lakersfanatic · Post #20 » by **lakersfanatic** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 4:40 pm

I think ultimately he'll probably go with New York... Bosh and wade or bosh and LB hehe.

But for us... we got trading pieces but not sure if they'll bite. I like both pau and bynum.. losing one of them would hurt big time but for bosh... hrmmmm... got me thinkin there.. hehe