Lakers coaches play trade deadline prank on Jordan Hill

WCDYNASTY · Post #1 » by **WCDYNASTY** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:46 am

Lakers coaches play trade deadline prank on Jordan Hill
Brett Pollakoff | Feb 18, 2015, 10:30 PM EST

The trade deadline is a stressful time for players who know that their name will come up repeatedly in talks of deals with other teams, and some use that very real situation to have a laugh at those guys’ expense.

The Lakers coaching staff was the latest to have some fun with it, pulling an old prank on Jordan Hill that had him thinking he was on his way out.

From Bill Oram of The Orange County Register:

The Lakers do not play again until Friday against Brooklyn. The Lakers have a handful of players who could be attractive to suitors, starting with forward Jordan Hill. Hill’s contract carries a team option for next season, so he could be a cheap rental for a team looking to add frontcourt depth before the playoffs.

Hill was the victim of an age-old prank Wednesday when coaches told him Kupchak wanted to see him.

“He just started walking,” Scott said, “(and was) like ‘What’s wrong? What’s up?’ Then we just started laughing.”

That’s cold, man.

But in the midst of such a disastrous Lakers season, those living through it daily can hardly be blamed for trying to inject some levity into the situation.

SOURCE:
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/18/lakers-coaches-play-trade-deadline-prank-on-jordan-hill/

Laker_Kid · Post #2 » by **Laker_Kid** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:52 am

yeah i think this means hill is staying. hopefully we decline his team option and resign him for less. he will be solid off the bench in the future.

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WCDYNASTY · Post #3 » by **WCDYNASTY** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:54 am

Laker_Kid wrote:yeah i think this means hill is staying. hopefully we decline his team option and resign him for less. he will be solid off the bench in the future.

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Yeah, that's what I was thinking when I read the article.

mcscotty · Post #4 » by **mcscotty** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:56 am

Hill can give a very solid 20 minutes of explosive basketball. After that, he's pretty much spent.

Post #5 » by **TyCobb** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:01 am

I hope this is a prank on Lakers fans. Need to trade this dude for anything. Don't want the FO to have any temptations by picking up his option if he stays past the deadline.

miggs · Post #6 » by **miggs** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:09 am

yea i pretty much thought the same as most of you, based on this it seems to me now that we are NOT trading hill.

Post #7 » by **Danny Darko** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:34 am

hill has a no trade, so why would he even fall for that!

miggs · Post #8 » by **miggs** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:37 am

dude i never thought about that, very very true...

makes the whole story kind of fishy now

EArl · Post #9 » by **EArl** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:55 am

I bet hill doesn't even know that he has a no trade clause.

kblo247 · Post #10 » by **kblo247** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 8:06 am

Danny Darko wrote:hill has a no trade, so why would he even fall for that!

Been hitting the bottle during the break next to Lawson :lol:

But yeah I'm not buying its him they are trying to flip. I think its Lin and what really **** sucks about Lin more than his play is his deal. His cap figure is good but the fact is the team getting him is still going to have to fork out like 5-6mil which is an ugh because he's really being paid 15. But yeah IMO its Lin, Ed, Wes, Kelly types being shopped and the team rather talk to Hill about staying on at a longer but cheaper rate. They like him, and honestly this Dragic stuff is all because he, Nash, and Dragic share an agent

SlimShady83 · Post #11 » by **SlimShady83** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:51 am

funny how you all say you want hill traded, then half or more of you who did, say yeh hill gives a good 20 min a game blah, blah, blah crap.

you guys crack me up

Post #12 » by **Danny Darko** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 3:02 pm

skullz wrote:funny how you all say you want hill traded, then half or more of you who did, say yeh hill gives a good 20 min a game blah, blah, blah crap.

you guys crack me up

Do you often refer to one person as "you all"? :noway:

LApwnd · Post #13 » by **LApwnd** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:40 pm

mgmt. playing a joke on us, a sad one at that cause they not gona get anything done at this deadline IMO

Pointgod · Post #14 » by **Pointgod** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:42 pm

skullz wrote:funny how you all say you want hill traded, then half or more of you who did, say yeh hill gives a good 20 min a game blah, blah, blah crap.

you guys crack me up

Leave me out of it. Hill sucks we should trade him for literally anything.

MelosSoreWrist · Post #15 » by **MelosSoreWrist** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:38 pm

skullz wrote:funny how you all say you want hill traded, then half or more of you who did, say yeh hill gives a good 20 min a game blah, blah, blah crap.

you guys crack me up

Its not mutually exclusive. Laker fans probably would want Hill but for a smaller salary cap hit.