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I have to look up salaries and how much room the Lakers have under the cap, but on just uneducated hunches: Kobe is gone. I think he wants to show everyone he can carry a team as the first option. I think Shaq will also try and make his return harder. I think Payton stays. I doubt he gets a better offer, money wise, and unless he goes to another championship caliber team (I can't think of any who need his services)....he stays put. The only other way is if he retires, but I think he wants another year to untarnish his image. Malone.....hmmmm. This is the thoughest one, imo. I'm going to go with the "I don't think he wants it to end like this, and Payton isn't quiting" side of it and say he stays. I think George stays just because no one else will give him more money, or enough to make it worth while. Fischer leaves. I think they draft or bring in a point guard to help them get the ball to Shaq. Rush and Luke stay. Rush starts next season. Phil is gone.

I posted a picture of Snoop Dogg and said that the reaction in San Antonio to the last-second game-winning shot was awesome. Ok, am I crazy or does anyone else remember someone posting, not JE (hence, and such), a picture of the spurs holding their wastes looking at the floor after fischers shot? Regardless, I'm just giving you, akran, KK, and chu a little s*** for losing. And yes, I'm a Bulls fan, but at least we got a high draft pick for losing!

No your right. The Pistons have their heads screwed on right tho. I think the MVP was more of a formality to them.

Well, let me put it this way: I've never seen a more fitting use of the term "between a rock and a hard place".

I was joking, saying Darko was the heart and soul of the team anyways, I'm not sure, but I don't think the MVPlayer award can go to the coach. You can give that award to just about anyone on the Pistons tho. Prince shut down kobe and scored himself. Ben Wallace shut down Shaq (as much as humanly possible) and had a few monster games.

I see the pictures just fine. Anyone else have arkans problem? ooooo man, always so stoic. I'm just poking fun at JE and such for posting those pictures of LA beating the Spurs. Plus, its the Lakers! BTW, besides Arkan, I've noticed the LA fans don't come around so much anymore. O, and the NHL is screwed.

heart and soul of the team

Maybe he needed a few more Hall of Fame players to win?

ding dong, the witch is dead

billups got the mvp

There arn't any Lakers fans in LA when they lose, didn't you know?

well, ya....I guess they could have....ok im confused. Are you just saying the Lakers could have won?? thats it?

Maybe Lucas want's one game out for the holidays.... EDIT: not to mention the Feb 3 release date stated above would put in conflict with K2

There could be some kind of sith plot to over take Coruscant or maybe there is something there they need....

For the record: in the first picture there are 6 duckling. 5 in the next, and 1 in the last one. I don't think it's fake, look how the first baby duck in the second pictures feet hook around hte edge of the sewer.

I don't see why you think that. They just barely came back in game two, and have shown little signs of life other than that. I mean, Kobe did get shut down in two consecutive nights and one was a "must win" game for the Lakers. Even Shaq was stopped in game 3. The Lakers could have easily have been swept tho. If Shaq got more touches I'd say they would have a better chance, but if my aunt had balls she would be my uncle. Thats just not how it happened. again, isn't that all the Pistons doing? They single cover Shaq but shut everyone else down. People, like Kobe, get frustrated and start taking bad shots. Bad shots piss everyone else off, and the frustration multiplies. I give all the credit in the world to the Pistons (it doesn't hurt that Malone is hurt, but they were winning with him healthy.). In fact, it almost seemed that when Kobe had a decent shot, he felt a phatom hand in his face from Prince hounding him. Let's face it, Kobe can be "hounded" out of his game. Bowen and to some extent doug christie have shown that.

pic Kiefer Sutherland = $$$$$$ to do it

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thats why my toilets quacks everytime I flush! EDIT: o yea:

I couldn't disagree more. Obviously without good "wannabe leechers" around them, Shaq and Kobe are struggling to get it done. And minus one close game, theu have in fact not gotten it done. Jordan never won untill he had a good "wannabe leecher" cast around him, and either has Shaq or Kobe. Pretty simple, you can't win without role players. Point to a championship team that has. (I seem to remember Horey (sp?) hitting some big shots for the Lakers..) Well, so far Payton (specially payton), Malone, and the rest of the role players have been put over the coals. Much more than say Shaq. Kobe will be rocked by the media now, and deservingly so. As Charles Barkley said over and over through out the Playoffs, the better team always wins a seven game series. And the Pistons have not just won, but dominated overall. The score is much closer, because it is lower scoring game, then the games actually were. Kobe got shut down in game 3, and then shut down again tonight. Everyone but Shaq has been non-existent or very inconsistent game after game, and even shaq was no where to be seen in game 3. Just recently? Hard to argue recently, as just SA and LA have won the last 5 years. But you said 10 years. Of the teams on the list, all had a consistently good streak. Remember that Houstan beat Shaq. (which goes to prove the roleplayers point) Also, Sacramento and the Wolves have contested the Lakers in the last few years. You can say the Lakers dominated a three year stretch, but the last decade???? It's "win or go home", 3 out of 10 when someone else did 3 out of ten and two other teams did 2 out of 10 does not equal domination. 30%? Either way, none of this means anything. The current Pistons are the Lakers equals, if not more. They could miss the playoffs next year and the fact will not change.

Hey, Darth Maul was the apprentice of Darth Sidious, not the Emperor

Talk about resting on laurels You are saying that the Pistons arn't the equals of the Lakers because of what the Lakers did in PAST SEASONS!!?!?! come one now I'm arguing teams, not individual players. Because the Lakers current team does not resemble their first championship run, btw. EDIT: By this logic the current Celtics are better than the current lakers via # of championships O, and is this dominating a decade? 2002-03 San Antonio 2001-02 Los Angeles 2000-01 Los Angeles 1999-00 Los Angeles 1998-99 San Antonio 1997-98 Chicago Bulls 1996-97 Chicago Bulls 1995-96 Chicago Bulls 1994-95 Houston Rockets 1993-94 Houston Rockets seems like 4 teams have dominated to me only 2 teams have dominated a ten year stretch: The celtics and the bulls

Ok, say what you will, but I think the Pistons have proved that they are MORE than the Lakers equals. Regardless of what happens from here on out.

Kobe KILLED the Lakers somewhere MJ is smiling