waitingfornextyear.com - 7/3/2009
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The day started all smiles. With all the pomp and circumstance of a Presidential Inauguration, the Cleveland Cavaliers officially welcomed Shaquille O’Neal to the team Thursday. It was supposed to go down as a great day in Cavalier history, the day the franchise coronated the prince who would ...
emptythebench.com - 7/3/2009
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emptythebench.com —
Kobe Bryant & Ron Artest Photos Credit: Icon
SMI By: Brendan K. O’Grady If you’re Trevor Ariza,
Ron Artest, or the Los Angeles Lakers, this all makes perfect sense. If you’re Ariza, you feel disrespected. It’s hard not to ...
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Ron Artest, Trevor Ariza, and the LA Lakers: It All ...
waitingfornextyear.com - 7/3/2009
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I just finished reading Rock’s piece on watching
our beloved Cleveland Cavaliers continue to get passed over
by the top free agents this week, while simultaneously rolling out the red carpet for the Big Freeze, Shaquille O’Neal. As Rock points out GM Danny Ferry was busy at a press ...
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The Truth About The Cavs and Free Agency
latimes.com - 7/3/2009
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latimes.com —
Less than three weeks after the parade, the
NBA champion Lakers have already met the biggest threat
to their throne. Themselves. What are they thinking? What are they doing? They just won a title that would not have been possible without the strong ...
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Lakers make the wrong move going with Ron Artest - Los ...
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BallerBlogger.com —
... WFNY on Cleveland’s offseason: “Once again, teams all around the league are making impact free agent signings, while the Cavaliers continue coming up empty handed. It would be easy to blame Cavaliers GM Danny Ferry for this. After all, while he was smiling and beaming like a proud papa over the arrival of Shaq, Daryl Morey was on a plane to Las Vegas to meet with Trevor Ariza in person, a move which ultimately led Ariza to sign with Houston for the Mid-Level Exception. At the same time, Jerry Buss and Phil Jackson were sitting down with Ron Artest and ...
Tuesday Frowndup: Trevor Spills the Beans, What it All Means
Cleveland Frowns —
... *WFNY's Rock summed it up well re: Artest to the Lakers: "I’m trying not to get too down here, but with Artest in Los Angeles, you’re looking at a roster of Fisher, Kobe, Artest, Gasol, Bynum, Odom, Vujacic, Farmar, Walton, Brown, and Morrison. It’s a talented team, and it’s a deep team. And it’s a team the Cavaliers even with Shaq can’t really match up with." ...
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In a free-agent swap of forwards, the Lakers reached an agreement with Houston Rockets forward Ron Artest and the Rockets have reached agreement with Trevor Ariza, the Los Angeles Times has learned. Artest met with Lakers executives throughout ...
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Bleacher Report - NBA 7/3/2009
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