Paul gasol for Jeff teauge and Josh smith????

^^Pau has become an outside forward as well.......lol

Nope giving up Pau gives up a chance to get Dwight. Also Smith doesnt seem like a very bright player. There's a reason why the Hawks have been loaded with talent and have gone no where. Why bring it to LA? Lakers need high IQ & character players.

It seems as though every rumor that comes out of the woodworks in the NBA these days starts with the Los Angeles Lakers. Whether it’s Dwight Howard or Chris Paul it is clear they are in the market for new players.

The most recent trade rumor that involves them is one I heard right after Al Horford’s injury. This proposed deal would send Pau Gasol to the Atlanta Hawks and the Lakers would receive point guard Jeff Teague and forward Josh Smith. Look, I understand trade rumors are just that-rumors, but some of these actually materialize into legitimate trade talks, and this one would be devastating for the Hawks.

Jeff Teague is a young point guard who is beginning to prove himself in the NBA. The Lakers need a player like this because Derek Fisher is old, and Darius Morris isn’t ready.

Josh Smith is an athletic freak who can score points in bunches, and in a variety of different ways. He’s widely been considered the best dunker in the NBA since being drafted, and is starting to come into his own as an all around player.

The Hawks would essentially be trading two young players that they haven’t been openly shopping all offseason for an aging center that the Lakers have been trying to get rid of for a few months now. This is the reason the Lakers and Yankees of this world have stayed good for so long, and it’s time another franchise realized that.

If this trade was the other way around I wouldn’t have as big of a problem with it. It would still be an unfair trade, but it would be a team out-smarting the Lakers which wouldn’t be a familiar story.

This is the perfect time for the Lakers to make a proposal like this considering the fact that the Hawks’ center Horford is likely out for 3-4 months. The Hawks need to understand that he will be healthy again and not do anything drastic like give up two good young players to a team that is only going to give you one aging one.

Right now, for this season, Smith is averaging more points per game than Gasol by himself at 16.8 and 16.4. If that alone was the trade it would be no big deal, but adding Teague’s 11.7 per game instantly puts it in L.A’s favor.

Both Teague and Smith are viable trade pieces, but if they are going to be packaged together the Hawks better have either Dwight Howard or Deron Williams to show for it, because even though Smith has always been underrated it should take a lot for the Hawks to part ways with both him and Teague.

I would actually really consider this trade. Smith is not a "Big" PF, but we really do not need a Big "PF" in todays game anymore. I think Smith is a solid basketball player, not equal in the overall talent of Pau, but still a really good player. He would bring some youth and athleticism to our team. Another aspect that Josh Smith would bring to our team would be some solid defense. I also really like Jeff Teague. This season he is coming out and proving doubters wrong. I really like the way he has been playing. 12.3 ppg, about 6 apg, 2.1 spg on 46% shooting from the field and 44% from the three. That would solve our PG problems, and I think Teague can be our PG of the future.

But honestly I would prefer to do this trade only if we can get Dwight Howard for Andrew Bynum + fillers + picks. Who knows if Orlando would do that, but if they do, then I'd definitely be cool with the Pau for Teague and Smith trade.

With both of those trades happening our lineup turns from a slow and old: Fisher / Kobe / Barnes / Pau / Bynum to a much younger, athletic, defense juggernaut: Teague / Kobe / Barnes / Smith / Dwight. That is a more complete starting lineup then we currently would have, in my opinion. BUT, if we can get a superstar PG in Deron Williams in exchange for Pau, I would still prefer that.

The main reason to do this trade is to get some youth back onto our team. We are very old and slow, and we still need to think about the future, as well as the present. But then again, who knows if this proposed trade is even legit? They generally never are. Haha. I guess we just have to wait and see what our Front Office does, if anything!

Too me in my opinion I'd take smith and teauge for Paul, what can Paul do better then smith anyways?? The guy is getting softer every game NO blocks for a 7 footer, he's taking all jump shoots, I love the guy but we need new energy on this team and Josh smith can do that we don't need an all star PG, who wouldn't take this line up ....PG teauge SG Kobe SF barns PF smith C Howard that would be the best defensive team in the NBA, most athletic/energy/ hungry/Fast team/ line up you could ever come up with, we are not a slow team or old team and athletic we can score whenever and our defense would be lock down, quickest team in the league..... This would completely change the lakers to been contenders for along time

I don't understand.. Everyone is always harping on Gasol for not being tough and not playing defense but when there is a rumor about trading him for a tough and very good defender, you don't want to do it. Not only that, we would be getting an athletic point guard who can start now and in the future, which has clearly been stated by nearly everyone how bad of a need there is at the PG position.

How about Andrew Bynum for John Wall and JaVale Mcgee

Dear Laker organization,

Please don't leave the Lakers team in this condition.......our lil Brothers (clipps) think they are the sh!t. All of a sudden, I'm seeing the other team memorabilia in LA. When did they get pride........SMH

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