Could Phil Jackson be the man to tame him and help him play to his full potential? My Lakers sure as hell need something!

One thing is for certain I think this month is gong to throw up some very interesting trades!

I saw the names Hughes & Gooden, from Cavs, for Ron & Croshere.

That at least would give the Pacers some sompensation.

O'Neal
Gooden
Jackson
Hughes
Tinsley

Ilgauskas
Marshall or Croshere
Lebron
Artest
Snow

Why would anyone want to pick Artest up if they had a half decent team? He would ruin everything. The only team he wants to play on is one that doesn't have a main scorer so he can jack up everything he touches.
Can someone please remind the brother that there is no 'I' in TEAM!!!

What about an Odom - Artest swap ? In Artest you get a better defender a good offensive threat , and Phil is good at controlling ego's and difficult players.
What does Odom make / year? Artest is on 6-7 mil .

The other bonus for the Lakers is that they get a guy who will play hard every night .

Can Ron and Kobe share the ball ? They would be jacking up close to 60 shots a night between them ..

No-one will trade for him. He's only on $6.5 million and for the star that he is (he is easily the best defender and one of the top 20 players in the league), it's practically impossible to match up salaries.

I heard Artest for Peja ... id say that trade is Pretty Fair for both teams

Lamar Odom is on 10.5 mill/year.

'easily' the best defender? I disagree. just because he gets the most steals doesnt make him the best. And his attitude sucks. and his %'s are terrible for a guy who always wants the ball.

Bender will go with him... helps to match salaries.

The guy is all about himself and any team would be stupid to pick him up unless you were sitting in bottom position. Why has he come out and said these comments? To get rid of the coach! Quote.."I don't want to leave Indiana", "I love playing with my team", "I like coach as a person, just not as a COACH!", come on people it's the typical sack him or me issue. The problem is Larry Bird looks after the Pacers and there is no way he would stand for this.
Artest either traded or delisted...

Article today has said that enough is enough and the Pacers are seeking a trade for Artest.

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There are heaps of trade rumours floating around about where that crazy freak will end up.

Here are some of the names that have been floated around (if my name was Larry Bird I'd do the Philly trade ina heartbeat):

New York Channing Frye, Jamal Crawford, Nate Robinson

L.A. Lakers Lamar Odom, Luke Walton

Denver Andre Miller, Nene, Earl Watson, Earl Boykins

Minnesota Wally Szczerbiak, Trenton Hassell

Dallas Josh Howard, Devin Harris

Seattle Vladimir Radmanovic, Rashard Lewis, Flip Murray

Chicago Luol Deng, Chris Duhon

Sacramento Peja Stojakovic

Cleveland Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Larry Hughes

Philadelphia Samuel Dalembert, Kyle Korver, Andre Iguodala

Anyone and everyone can be traded, so what if he's one of the best centre's. Shaq got traded, Kareem got traded etc etc. Maybe the Pacers will demand Z as part of the trade.

If I were the Pacers I'd be going after Howard or Iggy. Iggy is a younger Artest minus the brain explosions, and Howard is a one of the better up and coming SF/SG in the league.

Most of these trades are rubbish, especially the philli one - a decent centre, one of the leagues best dunkers and 3 point shooters for Artest. And i doubt AI would wont to play with artest. The only ones that seem realistic are the Chicago, Sacremento and LAL deals.

The trades ain't proposed packages, they are player names that could be targeted by the Pacers and would work with Artests price. Some players don't work like Dalembert, he's a BYC so trading him to pretty much mission impossible.

What makes the Lakers want him

No way would i trade Odom for Artest

With our lack of height and big man depth, atleast Odom can swing from SF to PF

What can Artest swing too?.....SG, and for what when we got the best SG in the league

here's a news flash, kobe isn't the best SG in the league.

Artest can most definately swing, he swings a lot of left and right hooks.....

Who is then Gorilla?????

artest for al harrington done deal.

hmmm then let him play for Atlanta for a few games - realise how much they suck and start another fight out of frustration. Suspended for life so the Hawks again get buggerall for a trade and end up worse off than when they started!

Sweet - make it happen!

u put alot thought into that statman. oi statman dig a hole. stoudamire johnson artest williams zaza. perfect fit artest is. we got shooters in jj and salim and defence from artest post player in marvin and zaza as the banger.

who knows who's the best sg. Manu? Wade? Certainly not kobe... his team wouldn't be 8th in his conference if he was.

What a ridiculous comment to make

Im asking YOU who is better than Kobe at the SG position, regardless of record or standings

You cant even answer that

why would indiana accept a trade for harrington? wasnt he on their list up to two years ago? that would be hte stupidest move ever - mind u if isiah was in charge it just mite happen..

If Artest went to Atlanta he still wouldn't be happy, as you said Cheeze you already have shooters in JJ & Salim + more and Artest who wants to be traded to be MORE of an offensive player. Doubt Atlanta will trade for him.

My fave trade option for Ron:

Pacers get : Lamar Odom and Earl Watson
Lakers get : Ron Artest and Andre Miller
Nuggets get : Jamaal Tinsley, Chris Mihm and either Scot Pollard or Jonathon Bender

Nugs get a running PG and some more bigs.
Lakers get 2 players who should fit reasonably well in the triangle.
Pacers get the likely the best talent replacement for Artest and sort out their PG situation.