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L.A. Times: If Monday brought expectation and exhilaration to Lakers fans, Tuesday delivered silence. Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor met with team officials in Minneapolis and then left for a honeymoon in China without signing off on a deal to send Kevin Garnett to the Lakers for a package including Andrew Bynum and Lamar Odom, which put the Garnett-to-L.A. scenarios [...]

Recently, our own LD2k had a radio interview by WCCO‘s Tonight with Mike Max and Dark Star. Sadly, we weren’t able to record it since the feed went dead before the interview and the website never added the podcast on their website. However, LD2k gave a recap on what was talked about. - Talked about the website - Talked about [...]

Yes, the website is very slow right now and acting very weird. We just switched to a better hosting provider and it takes about 24 to 48 hours to have all the kinks worked out. Also, a few of last nights post were deleted ’cause we had a earlier backup to work with it. As of now, we will hardly [...]

HOOPSWORLD.COM: In early May of 2007 three friends got together with a single, simple purpose . . . bringing Kevin Garnett to the Los Angeles Lakers. Of course none of the trio were in position to directly impact the Minnesota Timberwolves or Lakers, so they set out to do the next best thing: blogging. Thus was born GetGarnett.com. The site [...]

Our boy Shane Bien was on the this afternoon’s Loose Canons and he was rad enough to mention LD2k, hZm and the Nugget by name and also plug our little website, GetGarnett.com. Thanks, playa.

“There will be a lot of good days ahead.” is what he told the Laker fans. Is this some sort of crypto language that his leaving the Lakers front office. Good days are indeed ahead if that is what he really meant. When asked about the Lakers woes this year. He gave the top one answer from every General Manager [...]

L.A. Times: What part of “No way” don’t you understand? Someone in the dispute between Kobe Bryant and the Lakers is out of his/their gourd, which is why, four weeks later, it’s still unfolding daily. Kobe said today the Lakers not only sold him out but are behind global warming and blacked out everyone’s TVs at the end of “The [...]

L.A. Times: With his trip to Spain behind him and an uncertain future ahead, Kobe Bryant spent Friday morning in a familiar place. The unhappy superstar met with Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak for about an hour at the team’s training facility in El Segundo. Although it was believed that their first face-to-face meeting since the nine-time All-Star made a [...]

HOOPSWORLD.COM: The summer of 2007 was not supposed to be like this. The Los Angeles Lakers once had visions of grandeur that this summer they’d land the key piece to propel them back into contention. With three-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant already locked in, this would be the moment they’d pair him up with another superstar. The list of players [...]

Ric Bucher was just on Sportscenter this afternoon and pretty much summed it up that theirs a ZERO chance that Kevin Garnett will join the Lakers this upcoming season. He also mentioned that the Timberwolves see not current players in the Lakers squad that they can rebuild around. Also, stated that the Wolves are not interested with the pieces that [...]

O.C. Register: It was appropriate in light of the Lakers’ offseason headaches concerning Kobe Bryant: A bottle of aspirin was sitting on Mitch Kupchak’s desk. Kupchak, the Lakers’ general manager, discussed the team Tuesday and explained how aggressive he has been in the trade market, though he declined to answer specific questions about Bryant. Since the Lakers’ season ended, Bryant [...]

L.A. Times: While recovering from hip surgery at home, Lakers Coach Phil Jackson weighed in Monday on the latest movement in the Kobe Bryant ordeal, sounding a positive note for Bryant’s future with the team. Jackson, who had hip-replacement surgery last Tuesday, has spoken with Bryant numerous times since the nine-time All-Star demanded a trade May 30, an action Bryant [...]

ESPN: While there seems little doubt Kobe Bryant wants out of Los Angeles, the Lakers don’t appear ready to make a move. “I think we’ve made our position clear on that publicly and we have nothing further to say on the matter at this time,” team spokesman John Black said Monday. Black referred to a statement issued by team owner [...]

According to this article (To continue reading this article you must be an Insider member.) from ESPN’s Chad Ford, the Timberwolves are finally listening to trade proposals from other teams. Has Garnett demanded a trade or is this McHale’s doing? Over the weekend, several Eastern Conference general managers told ESPN.com that Minnesota Timberwolves GM Kevin McHale is finally listening to [...]