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<blockquote data-quote="JAZN" data-source="post: 6114265" data-attributes="member: 556702">I was listening to the LA radio station today and here&#039;s the lowdown:Artest has wanted to come to LA for a few years now. When he was suspended/not in the playoffs, he would come watch Laker games quite often. He was in attendance for game 6 of the finals of LA vs. Boston (when LA lost the series) and after the game he came into the Lakers locker room and told Phil Jackson that he could help the Lakers win a championship. Phil was like yeah thats great blah blah. So Ron goes up to Kobe while he&#039;s in the shower and tells him the same thing. Pretty amusing story.As for the Ariza situation, Lakers offered him MLE and Ariza and his agent felt like that was an insult. Ariza&#039;s agent then shopped around and realized a monster contract wasn&#039;t out there so they came back to LA. LA&#039;s decision was then Ariza or Artest for the same amount of money. Ariza seemed pretty down during the interview today, too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JAZN, post: 6114265, member: 556702"] I was listening to the LA radio station today and here's the lowdown: Artest has wanted to come to LA for a few years now. When he was suspended/not in the playoffs, he would come watch Laker games quite often. He was in attendance for game 6 of the finals of LA vs. Boston (when LA lost the series) and after the game he came into the Lakers locker room and told Phil Jackson that he could help the Lakers win a championship. Phil was like yeah thats great blah blah. So Ron goes up to Kobe while he's in the shower and tells him the same thing. Pretty amusing story. As for the Ariza situation, Lakers offered him MLE and Ariza and his agent felt like that was an insult. Ariza's agent then shopped around and realized a monster contract wasn't out there so they came back to LA. LA's decision was then Ariza or Artest for the same amount of money. Ariza seemed pretty down during the interview today, too. [/QUOTE]

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