How bout some Raptors news? Memphis has traded Rudy Gay to the Toronto Raptors in a three-team deal involving Detroit. 

Grizzlies get: Ed Davis, Tayshaun Prince and Austin Daye, and a 2nd round draft pick

Pistons get: Jose Calderon’s expiring

Raptors get: Rudy Gay and Hamed Haddadi 

The Lakers, alwayz into somethin’

The Brooklyn Nets and Atlanta Hawks have agreed in principle to a trade that will send Joe Johnson to Brooklyn for a few spare parts and a lottery-protected draft pick. The Nets are also expected to re-sign Deron Williams soon.

What this means financially is that Dwight Howard will not be moving to Brooklyn just a week after Howard finally, publicly admitted that he wanted Orlando to trade him there.

So Dwight blew it and all because he was too scared?/confused?/hopeless? to ask for the one thing that every 21-year old kid with a trust fund in America tells his or her parents after graduation: “Thanks for the money. I want to move to Brooklyn.”

“I guess that means I’m a Laker if the trade didn’t go through. I don’t know what to do for the Lakers. I’m even weirded out by the league doing what they did. I don’t know what to do.

Imagine how Pau [Gasol] feels. Pau came to the Lakers and played here for four years, went to the Finals and lost, won two NBA championships and then got swept [by the Dallas Mavericks this year]. Wow! Imagine how he must feel.

Man, I’m just in total disbelief about all of this. They don’t want my services, for whatever reason. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. I was proud to be a Laker, so I’ll try to help them in the process as much as possible.”

- Lamar Odom on the current trade/non-trade situation between the Lakers & Hornets.

Ladies and gentlemen, starting at guard for the Los Angeles Lakers…

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Jerryd Goes to New Orleans.