LA Lakers And Ways To Fix Them

by Dante R Maddox

EVERYBODY WINS... AT LEAST UNTIL THE PLAYOFFS. The Lakers get Griffin and Bledsoe. Griffin is already a starter and dominant All-Star power forward, and Bledsoe will be a starter in the NBA just in time for Steve Nash to get a gig in broadcasting while he waits to make his Hall of Fame acceptance speech. Pau Gasol can either move over to center or become a massive asset for the Lakers on the trade market. Kobe Bryant might be a little upset but would suddenly feel better upon witnessing Blake Griffin victimize someone that is on the other team for a change. The return of a hopefully healthy Jordan Hill eases the loss of Howard. Plus, this new roster is a much better fit for head coach Mike D€™Antoni€™s system. On the other hand, the Clippers have a team coached by Doc Rivers and anchored by two of the best defensive players in the league, in other words coming to Downtown LA will mean getting robbed in a way no one really expected. Add to that two former Sixth Men of the Year, both of which can also start in a pinch (Especially Lamar Odom), a former Finals MVP that can make free throws from the parking lot and all of a sudden you have a team that can take advantage of a somewhat diminished Western Conference. As far as the Griffin hurdle, is it not loyal to, in a no win situation, send Griffin across the hall? No need to uproot and move to the cold, a rare situation where he is beloved by rival fan bases. Leaving him in a situation where he resumes being the player of the future with a clear roadmap to the Hall of Fame. As far as loyalty goes, that seems pretty loyal to me.

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Dante R Maddox got started in writing about pop culture in 2007. He developed his conversational style majoring in English and minoring in speech communication, his desire to write as if he were speaking to the reader face to face was the bane of many professors. An odd blend of geek cred and regular fella chic', you're just as likely to end up talking about baseball or politics as you are about comic books and movies (just don't mention Tucker Carlson, you are addressing the man who will go to jail for assault in the future after all). He wrote a book called The Lineage of Durge that's available on Amazon for a small amount of money, he's writing a second while acting as Editor-in-Stuff over at Saga Online Press, there is a graphic novel expansion of his book series also in the works as well as continued development of his cheesecannon, one day Canada...one day (Seriously, a piece of ham, you slice it up and now it's bacon?!?!? I say thee nay!!!)