ARTEST A LAKER!!!!!

RON RON

What is going on in the NBA? Madness!!!! Shaq to cleveland, jefferson to san antonio, carter to orlando! and now…. Artest to the Lakers!!!! I’ll start of by saying that I have some mixed feelings about this. During the playoffs I became a huge Trevor Ariza fan, he stepped up and made a lot of big plays. I really feel bad becuase I think he would have ultimately stayed with the lakers if not for artest. The lakers offered him pretty much the same amount of money that he’s gonna get from the rockets now. His agent wanted to play hardball and try to drive the lakers offer up, but i still think he would have ended up with the lakeshow, i mean come on, he’s from L.A. and they just won it all!!! of course he wanted to stay! Now we’ll find out how much potential he really has in houston, where he’s probably one of their best players. Now the lakers basically just figured why play games with ariza’s agent when we can get ron artest at a similar price? Not only do they get artest, but they keep him from signing with another contender like cleveland! If artest does what is asked of him, he can be great for the lakers. He just needs to be a lock down defender and do some of the dirty work for the team. He probably doesn’t need to score more than 12-15 points a game, especially if they retain odom as well. Now Kobe will be able to get more rest both in playing less minutes, and in not always having to guard the other teams best player. Ron is known for doing a great job guarding both carmelo and lebron, so that will help a lot. As long as he doesn’t jack up to many stupid shots and doesn’t go punching any more fans, it could be amazing! All of that being said it’s still possible that he could ruin the teams chemistry and be their down fall. No matter what, it will be very interesting. In closing I just wanna say again that I feel for ariza, but if you’re gonna play games in a market like this you’re gonna get burned. Ron Artest, Welcome to Hollywood!!!!