I'd give it serious consideration if you're a die hard fan of the Lakers or basketball in general. They're starting 3 current All-NBA players and another all star caliber guy. One of the most talented starting 5s in the history of the game. I would HATE to miss this team play. If it were me, my decision would hinge on whether I can find comparable employment back home.
Tupac you going to be in LA and be at Staples on 11-16 against the Suns and the same night they unveil Kareem's statue outside Staples ? I got my tickets for this game already.
I don't know why but I feel really good about Metta this year. I can't even explain it. Maybe its because he's been very quiet. Maybe its because he looks like he is in incredible shape (no romo). Maybe its because we're not going to need him at all offensively so he can just focus on clamping down on defense and giving us hustle plays. I don't know the exact reason, but for now I am glad we did not amnesty him. We have a lot of offensive firepower but we need a player like Metta to go after all the loose balls and give us that toughness. He might prove me wrong, who knows I could be really off and he can stink it up, but I am excited to see how he gels with our team this year since he looks so motivated.
^ He does seem a lot more focused... I hope next off-season we work out a deal with him rather than using the amnesty (right now this is his last season with the Lakers according to most people)... Along the lines of asking him to decline his player option and using full bird rights to pay him what he would have made over 2 seasons... Saves us $3.86 mil next year which is more than the mini-MLE and put it toward the 1 of 3 spots it is needed for next year (Backup PG, Backup SF, Backup PF (Jamison only signed a 1 year deal)).
Honestly Metta his whole time here he's frustrated me.But not the same way that pissed me off and made me not a fan of Odom when he was in the purple & gold. I know Odom is loved by a lot of NT'ers but yeah come at me Odom fans. It would be really nice though if Metta could get back somewhat close to his DPOY years.I know he ain't shutting down Durant or Lebron. But I mean really though the depth for the SF position for the Lakers is really weak. Ebanks got his chances last year both early in the season and in the playoffs and dude just sucked.He was in Mike Brown's dog house for awhile last season because he wasn't rebounding or playing good enough defense
metta has been great as a laker. help to win a title and i loved when he punked blake griffin and most of the clipper team. the clippers have no intimidating players. they are like the new phoenix suns.
matt barnes barely signed and he saying this is the closest team he ever been on? lol lol @ paul saying he can tell blake anything... sounding like an after school special mad fruity..
Apparently Dwight is aiming to play in the season opener http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--dwight-howard-aiming-to-play-in-lakers--opener.html
I would LOVE to see Morris, Ebanks, DJO, and Goude get chances to improve and grow while the vets are still here to save their butts when it gets thick. As said, adds youth and energy to the team, gives them a little speed,, some hustle. Add Jordan Hill to that, and we would have enough youth to help out our old dudes.
Having 2 or all of these guys in the game at the same time is when the Lakers would blow 15 or 20 point leads and a whole lot of NT Laker fans would go crazy & lose their minds on here
So I was helping a family member move into their new place a couple weeks ago and some ADT guys were installing a new alarm system in the new crib. Turned out, I never knew ADT owned DirectTV, so I ask them what was up with the Laker channel, one of them told me they get non stop calls about it, so he said we'd have to order something called the Sports Regional Network (almost positive that was the name) and it would add about $3 and some change to the current DTV bill. Atleast I got it confirmed but I got too exited and I made the mistake of forgetting to ask when it becomes available.
I would take that info with a grain of salt. All TWC SportsNet and Directv have been telling people asking about the new channels is "We are in negotiations and hope to provide an update closer to the start of the NBA regular season". Based on all the articles I've read about this.The big road blocks are first how much TWC is asking it's competitors to charge per month to the consumers.Reports have said they are asking for about $3.95 a month.Another sticking point is companies like Directv probably want to carry the channels if they can offer it a la carte in a sports tier package.TWC & the Lakers on the other hand are saying no and they want it added to the basic level channel line up's. TWC customers in the Lakers DMA areas are getting it in the basic channel package levels and don't need to subscribe to TWC "Sports Pass" channel tier which is another $5 or $8 a month which includes NBATV, NFL Red Zone channel, Tennis channels, and some other random sports channels. But on the flip side though TWC customers outside of Cali like for example TWC customers in NYC can get the Lakers new channel if they subscribe to the "Sports Pass" tier.Those customers will see the Lakers related shows & content but the actual live games will get blacked out and they will need NBA League Pass to watch Laker games.
I can't lie I'm still worried about backup PG & Backup SF... PG more so than SF. Just because the drop off from Nash is HUGE.. Also because in a worst case Jamison will end up between SF & PF. And to make up for some of the time either Hill gets more minutes at PF to go with Center.. Or Earl Clark gets a handful of minutes at PF.... I also am not sure how the rotation will work for Dwight & Pau. Will they always be out there together, or will it be staggered. I'm sure 1 of which will be handled at the trade deadline where Mitch convinces a team to give us somebody for nobody.. But I'd be much more relieved if we could have 1 of those spots fixed before the season...