Lakers get:
Monta Ellis

Warriors get:
Lamar Odom
Shannon Brown


This trade idea is making headway. Everyone knows the Lakers need to get faster and help at the PG spot. If you're the Lakers, do you make this trade? Golden state would get bigger and still be able to remain uptempo with Odom and Brown, as well as make Curry the primary go to guy.


It should also be noted that Jerry West just joined the Warriors front office. And Mark Jackson (new coach) has a serious woody for Lamar Odom and What Can Brown Do For You.

That bench would be Dhalsim thin. They do need help at the point, but giving up Odom would be huge. They should try to get Aaron Brooks for less. Young Pac-10 guy with all-time low stock.

Hell no you don't make that trade. Give up your most versatile player/Sixth Man of the Year AND your only current young guy with any footspeed for only one other player? No thanks!

dumb trade for gsw as ellis is still young... if i am LA i do it in a heartbeat as they should be able to get a few spare parts for that bench. ellis, kobe, artest, gasol, and b bynum would be the best 5 in the league.

this thread has 6,000 views already

Jerry West is a plant from the Lakers whose sole job is to peddle outrageous deals to the Lakers, like pau gasol to the Lakers for umm....nothing.

almost 10,000 views in not even an hour?

this thread has obviously been found by the laker contingent.

link times

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/08/SP621JQSF0.DTL

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/727617-nba-rumors-latest-monta-ellis-trade-talk-draft-rumors-and-coaching-news/entry/93000-nba-trade-rumors-will-monta-ellis-land-with-the-los-angeles-lakers

That lineup doesn't look so scary. Bynum will break down if they don't have significant front court help off the bench.

Was wondering about the view count. It has over a hundred about 45 seconds after you posted it.

The last three years withstanding, that Gasol trade worked out a lot better for Memphis this year than L.A....

Why are there so many views on this thread?

Intriguing trade for sure. Monta is a baller, but my initial reaction is that LA would have to add another front court player and Ellis/Kobe would somewhat resemble the Westbrook/Durant situation. The front line looks great on paper though.

Also, 15k views? What the hell?

simplebay is the charlie sheen of the basketball other board

Depth is vastly overrated in basketball... and professional sports in general. Lakers would win that trade big-time.

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Depth is vastly overrated in basketball

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Dumbest thing I've read all day.

Looking forward to all future rumors where Jerry West saves the Lakers again. This one isn't so bad

What I mean by that is 6th, 7th, 8th men on the bench who can fill a role adequately for 20 MPG are easy to find for almost any system on the cheap. That's much easier to find than a PG who can score 25 PPG. Who do you give up? Shannon Brown? Easily replaceable. Lamar Odom? Tougher to replace, but his void is still very fillable.

If you are talking about trading 2 bench players, albeit effective ones and you'd net back a borderline all star in return, you trade the 2 bench players faster than you can blink. Your team will be better.

I'm a Rockets fan myself and I always laugh when people get squirrely about trading dudes like Landry, Brooks, Buddinger, etc. not because they are bad players, but because there are a lot of players like them in the league. In that way, depth is very overrated.

[This message has been edited by ATM9000 (edited 6/8/2011 5:33p).]

ATM I tend to agree with that. In the NBA, you get your stars no matter what it takes and worry about the rest later. You can find depth in the mid to late first rounds of drafts and with the mid-level exception.

Also agree with Ninja. Once the stars are in place, depth is invaluable.

lawl, what happened here?

Monta Ellis for Luol Deng and 30th pick in draft.

My friend asked me about that earlier. Not sure if GS would have any interest. If you were the Bulls though, would you risk putting Monta in the same backcourt as Rose? Seems like a high upside combo, but not very complimentary parts.

Odom's primary role is to hide the fact that LA doesn't have a serviceable, non-corpse, PG. Odom is expendable if LA has a good PG.

Don't forget the Dwight Howard for Andrew Bynum rumors as well. If you get a lineup of Howard, Gasol, Bryant, Ellis, and a 5th, that's one of the best if not the best starting 5 in the West, if not the NBA.

Do the Lakers want a score first PG who jacks 20 shots a game?

So their lineup would be:

PG - Moped crasher (Moped rider would be bad enough)

SG - Alleged rapist

SF - Crazy rapper

PF - A vagina

C - Cheap shot artist with bad knees

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