Alright you know I had to speak on the rumors Im hearing coming out of LA bout myLAkers & my boy Trevor Ariza. They say his agent has declined our offer of the mid-level exception of 5.6mil. They say he is asking for between 7&8mil. A number of teams are interested in adding Trev to their roster including the under-achieveing to most but over-achieveing to me Cleveland Cavs, Houston Rockets (who are supposedly meeting with him), Portland Trail-Blazers &Toronto Raptors. None of which are good fits for Trev or @least not as good as him staying in LA. Trev was born and raised here. He attended UCLA as well. The only reason he ever left was because he was drafted by New York then a few years later traded to Orlando. Other than that he has always been in beautiful Southern-California.

In my opinion it is all a big bluff by the agent (I aint mad @him, he's doing his job) to get Trev closer to the amount of money he deserves & wants. So I say Mr. Buss & Kupchik meet in the middle, somewhere around 6.2 & 6.7mil should make everybody happy. We have a dynasty to build & Trevor is an important part of that.

P.S. lets not forget about Lamar Odom & Shannon Brown also. Everyone knows L.O.'s worth but dont sleep on my boy S.B. we need him to battle with Jordan for that main backup PG roll as long Fish can still start and once he is retired one of them will start and the other as a probally the best backup PG in the league. Just keep that in mind.

Signing out, DaKING Jody-Jo..... YEZZIR!!! BALEE-DAT