Pau Gasol stolen and Sun shines in L.A.

James Edwards — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:21:02 +0000

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.

Pau Gasol takes a seat to nobody when playing basketball in the NBA

In the world of “yeah we kind of figured”, Mitch Kupchak came out and admitted the Lakers kind of stole Pau Gasol from the Memphis Grizzlies. Really? And we just kind of thought the Lakers were lucky?

Originally the Grizzlies wanted more for Pau Gasol.

The deal included Kwame Brown and weren’t the Lakers aching to get rid of him, Aaron McKie, the long time NBA veteran role player, rookie Javaris Crittenton, and two future first round picks, and Pau’s brother Marc. As you can see, they picked him up for a whole lot of nothing. Even the first round picks will most likely be low first rounders and worth very little.

The Grizzlies were asking for Monkey King…err Sun Yue, but the Lakers talked them out of it.

The Lakers had a pair of second-round picks last year. Gasol was selected 48th overall, eight picks after the Lakers drafted Sun. The younger Gasol spent the 2007-2008 season playing in Europe.

In the end, the Lakers were able to hold on to Sun, primarily because of the scouting report that assistant general manager Ronnie Lester prepared for Kupchak, after Lester evaluated Sun in Singapore, a month before the trade was consummated.
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So now you have a Laker team of Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, and Andrew Bynum.

Sun will be surrounded with Stars!

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Sun Yue of the Chinese team signs with Lakers

James Edwards — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:13:55 +0000

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.

OK, we are all up in arms about NBA players signing overseas. What are they thinking of? This is the NBA. Stay here.

Sun Yue taking it to the rack

Of course, they are thinking of money and lots of it.

So why are we not up in arms when the NBA signs some other countries player?

Sun Yue

The Lakers signed Sun Yue of the Chinese team.

The 6-foot-9, 212-pound Sun was the Lakers’ second-round draft pick last year. He played with the Aoshen club in Beijing and with the Chinese national team before the Olympics.

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