Thoughts on criticizing the Lakers FO for letting the Bulls sign Nocioni

Posted on LakersGround.net on 7/06/07.

Car54 wrote:

Hector the Pup wrote:
A FA agreeing to terms with his original team because they can offer the most money?

NO WAIT!!!!

That never happens.

Impossible.

I don't believe it.

Thats no surprise but They want mihm and we supposedly wanted him but Mitch probably didnt even entertain a S&T for Nocioni.

Again, what are we offering the Bulls that would make them want to do that trade? Right now, the Bulls have Nocioni and a good chance of signing Mihm. We were going to talk them out of doing that by offering them Mihm?

Car54 wrote:
You get free agents by selling yourself to them. Chicago was up for trading him. You can continue making excuses for Mihm and I'll continue bashing while good players are agreeing to terms. Then you can give me ur I told you so speech when mitch big splash in free agency is Hart or Blake for the MLE

Money talks in this league. The Bulls were offering Nocioni above the MLE, so the Lakers weren't going to get him to come here for just the MLE. Now, you seem to be saying that the Lakers should have convinced Nocioni that he should have demand the Bulls trade him to the Lakers. And when the Bulls said "No", Nocioni would have then signed the contract with them. Nocioni had no leverage to demand a trade.

Guess what - NBA players first priority is themselves, not the Lakers. Your anger at Mitch seems to have totally destroyed your perspective. If the Lakers make you this unhappy, why don't you follow another team?