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Originally Posted by Ikkaku
 so the grizzlies get the blunt end of the stick again?
I'm still wondering wtf was up with the pau gasol trade back then with the lakers hahah |
Well, they did get the draft rights to Marc Gasol out of it. They got the Lakers first round draft pick in 2008 (which they picked Donte Green with and traded him and their 2009 2nd round draft pick to Portland for Darrell Arthur). They also got the Lakers 2010 1st round pick who ended up being Greivis Vasquez and he seems like he could end up being pretty good player as well. On top of that, they got Kwame Brown's expiring contract, Javaris Crittenton, and Aaron McKie. McKie wasn't even in the league at that point, the Lakers called him up while he was an assistant coach for the 76ers and told him they needed to sign him for salary cap purposes in order for the trade to be made possible. He was released a month later and went back to being an assistant coach for Philly.
So they basically ended up getting Marc Gasol, Darrell Arthur, Greivis Vasquez, and Kwame's expiring contract in exchange for Pau and Devin Ebanks (from Grizzlies 2010 2nd round pick). Not as bad as it seemed and it was probably necessary for a team looking to build from scratch.