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Originally Posted by yamaneko
ON a funny side note, the clippers actually offered the lakers brand, kaman and someone else for shaq when he was on the block, but shaq didnt want to come here. If only the clippers had people they could offer while still keeping their best player like miami did. a clippers/lakers rivalry with shaq./kobe in the middle of it would have been historic.
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I'm glad Shaq didn't want to come here. If we would have traded Brand, Kaman and someone else for a 33 year old center, who this season had the worest year in his career... And Im not talking in scoring, I mean in just brute defense and rebounding, he has really gone down a notch compared to the Shaq that that destroyed durning the lakers championship era. Although I still agree that he is probably the best center out there, I'd still I'd be pissed if we had gotten em. Brand in my opinion, is just to damn consistant and rare to trade for Shaq. If he was 27, well I'd change my tune. But no way in hell would I want that now or last year.
I think either way it would have been awesome to see Kobe Bryant on the Clippers battling Shaq on the Lakers for a playoff spot or best team in the west. Only in Hollywood does that happen.
Some argue that if Shaq would have been content with his extention proposition, he wouldn't have left. But he wanted a six year max, in my opinion because knows in six years he is going to be a wheel chair bound basketball player. He went to Maimi, and now Maimi who was expected to offer the extention with contract deal before the playoffs, hasn't said anything about it yet.
If lakers had kept Shaq, Kobe would be a clipper right now.