Lakers await a decision from Karl Malone

看板Lakers (洛杉磯湖人)作者chpan (chimp)時間21年前 (2004/07/17 00:41)推噓2(2推 0噓 0→)

留言2則, 2人參與討論串1/1

節錄自 http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lakernext16jul16,1,1395867.story?coll=la- headlines-sports The Lakers await a decision from Karl Malone and have made an offer to Slava Medvedenko, both free-agent power forwards. They also have contacted free agent Vlade Divac. The Lakers have offered Malone their midlevel exception, but Malone is getting calls from the Spurs and Miami Heat, and Divac probably would not come for less than the midlevel exception. Among his considerations, Malone's wife, Kay, was born in San Antonio and, he said, "She loves it there." These have been difficult weeks for Malone, who left Utah after 18 seasons and found disorder, complicated by the first severe injury of his career. He has had knee and finger surgeries since the end of the season and still is trying to make sense of the departures of Jackson and O'Neal. He sat on his couch in Newport Beach on Thursday, iced his knee, and mulled his future. "My love, my caring for Kobe and Shaq is the same," he said. "I've lost one of them. On one hand, I'm happy. On the other hand, I'm unhappy. "So that's where I'm at. I know how hard the kid, Kobe, worked and he deserves what he's gotten. But I miss the heck out of Big. I wish it would have been handled better with Shaq and Phil. Those guys, that's what I signed up for." After some trepidation when he moved to Los Angeles from Utah, Malone said he still feels the draw of the fans here. "The people have become so important to me," he said. "That's what's tough. I could never have imagined what the people would do for me personally, in a single year…. I get strength from that and I got through a difficult time in my life, with my mother passing and then getting hurt. However it goes, I will never forget these people." ---- Luke Walton sprained his left wrist Thursday during a Summer Pro League game in Long Beach. X-rays and an MRI exam were negative, but Walton will sit out the remainder of the summer games…. A familiar face was at Thursday's summer-league game as 82-year-old Tex Winter pulled up a courtside seat and pronounced himself a free agent in the basketball consulting business. "I have my shingle out," said Winter, one of Phil Jackson's assistants…. The Lakers have scheduled a news conference for today to introduce new arrivals Lamar Odom, Brian Grant and Caron Butler. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ※ 編輯: chpan 來自: 140.112.50.220 (07/16 16:52)