It was announced today in the press room that the Los Angeles Lakers have made some massive changes in the past 24 hours, some say the team will never be the same again. To begin with it was announced that the Lakers have hired a new GM just prior to the 2005-2006 season beggining. This new GM is a business man from the UK known as Ryan Bolsworth, who owns several coffee shops accross the United States. But this was only the beggining of the big news as this lead to a massive trade taking place!
Lakers Receive - Michael Redd, TJ Ford, Dan Gadzuric (all from Milwaukee) Tamar Slay (Free Agent)
Lakers Lose - Kobe Bryant, Brian Cook (Milwaukee) Slava Medevenko (Free Agent)
It is apparent Kobe Bryant was furious upon hearing Bolsworth was hired and seeked to be traded immediatley. Once Milwaukee were notified an offer was put together and sent to the Lakers which Bolsworth accepted with no hesitation. Coach Phil Jackson and Bolsworth have put together a starting line up for the new season which is as follows.
--Starting Five--
C) Dan Gadzuric
PF) Kwame Brown
SF) Lamar Odom - C
SG) Michael Redd
PG) TJ Ford
--Bench---
SF) Devean George
C) Chris Mihm
SF) Luke Walton
C) Andrew Bynum
SG) Von Waifer
SF) Tamar Slay
PG) Aaron Mckie
--Injured Reserves--
SG) Sasha Vujacic
SF) Laron Profit
The Lakers will be facing the Denver Nuggets tonight, minus Kobe for the first time in numerous years. It will be interesting to see how well the team can bond with these massive changes and lack of bonding time together. When Phil Jackson was questioned about how his team will perform tonight he was quoted as saying "when I woke up this morning I did not expect this to happen, nor did anyone else, this is just one of the ups and downs of being an NBA coach I guess. However I have full faith in the four new players we have acquired today."
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