Lakers get Nash

[Storm]

The lakers ended up getting Steve Nash with a sign and trade with Phoenix. The Phoenix suns recieved 4 future draft picks, 2 first and 2 second rounders.

Do you guys think this will be enough for them to beat the Thunder?

[mrklean]

Hopefully not

[ozzie]

they will look alot better with Nash running the point then Sessions!!! Oh well the Suns fans lost Nash but they now signed Michael Beasley....

[Scott K]

I think the Lakers are on the decline, Kobe is getting old, and has lost a few steps physically, and still thinks he has it. By adding more old people, isnt going to get them much better. IMO

[rundrave]

how long will it be before Stern decides to intervene and overturn this move? lol

[paceman]

There is no way Nash is going to stop Westbrook so although this makes the Lakers better on the offensive end they are still a notch below the Thunder.

[ozzie]

The Lakers will have a very savy team with vetrans that know how to win and I think with Nash that is going to benefit Kobe so much as there will be someone else to create off the dribble with the ability to take over a game sometimes without scoring himself...they will be an older team but we saw how San Antonio did and I would take the Lakers vets over the Spurs vets from this past year. It will be a very interesting team to watch that is for sure!!

[Scott K]

Kobe is a ball hog, and so is Nash. They will clash. Nash has already said he wants to run his own plays, that wont sit well with Kobe.

[ozzie]

Ahhh Kobe is getting older and knows he needs help to dominate the game...Steve Nash is the best distributor/facilitator in the game and Kobe will be just fine getting set-up by the canadian pg. Who knows maybe this will open up the Lakers to trade Kobe instead of Bynum...I am sure there would be a great market for Kobe...couple 1st rounders and a decent SG/SF in return...Tell me Nash/Gasol/Bynum and a good SG/SF wouldn't be decent? Hey they may be better than with Kobe as others would expect to shoot and get the ball when it is in Nash's hands!!

[Storm]

Although I wouldn't be suprised the team would improve trading kobe for a few other good players to go along with bynum, gasol, and nash this cannot be done. Kobe has a no-trade clause just like what Joe Mauer got with the twins. Kobe will finish his career in L.A. even if its not what is best for the team.

[jmd1]

Ah we got screwed again just like the cheap shot in the hockey playoffs. It is one thing to leave the team and fans but to go to the rival is another. While i don't follow them much, i do keep up on the scores and who is doing what. Nash was a great representative for the Suns and I wish him luck at the Lakers. Someday he will return, he always said he wanted to retire here but also wants to win. He carried much of the team this year and was very vocal about doing so, to the point where he asked a couple times that if the mgmt did not get the others on board, he wanted to leave. I guess it will be another rebuilding season for the Suns, Cardinals, Diamondbacks, and the Yotes.

[ozzie]

Yeah Nash wanted to go somewhere where he could still c his kids 4 times or more a month opposed to 4 times a season if traded somewhere else and the Suns management made that happen by trading him to LA only 6 hrs away or something like that...