Trevor Ariza got what he deserved when he chose David Lee as his agent
I loved this guy as a Laker but he gets no sympathy from me for what his agent did to his career. He gainfully employed this guy and fully deserves what he got coming to him.
It didn't make any sense to me why Kupchak would dump Ariza like a sack of rocks and jump ship to Artest once free agency began. Kupchak is very conservative and I know he was willing to give Ariza the contract he deserved, which was slightly above the MLE. Ariza's greed and money hungry agent thought they could play hardball and force Mitch into paying him significantly more and the whole thing ended up backfiring in his face. Now Ariza is stuck on a shitty HOU team going into rebuild mode while he watches his hometown team likely make it back to the Finals.
He just learned a very valuable business lesson. Don't fuck with Buss.
http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=13174
It didn't make any sense to me why Kupchak would dump Ariza like a sack of rocks and jump ship to Artest once free agency began. Kupchak is very conservative and I know he was willing to give Ariza the contract he deserved, which was slightly above the MLE. Ariza's greed and money hungry agent thought they could play hardball and force Mitch into paying him significantly more and the whole thing ended up backfiring in his face. Now Ariza is stuck on a shitty HOU team going into rebuild mode while he watches his hometown team likely make it back to the Finals.
He just learned a very valuable business lesson. Don't fuck with Buss.
http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=13174
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Ariza was Plan A: With the Los Angeles Laker boldly agreeing to terms with forward Ron Artest, General Manager Mitch Kupchak has landed a player the team has been itching to acquire since he was in Indiana. The cost was the well-liked Trevor Ariza, who has agreed to sign an MLE deal with the Houston Rockets (~$32.3 million). A source tells HOOPSWORLD that Kupchak was prepared to give Ariza an offer equivalent to the full MLE but at 10.5% raises, totaling at approximately $33.8 million over five years. LA's ceiling might have been a $6 million starting salary for $36 million over five but before negotiations progressed after 9:00pm Pacific on Tuesday night, the source says that Ariza's agent, David Lee, took a confrontational approach with Kupchak. Lee wanted a deal in the $50 million range and took offense to the team's stance that Trevor should test the market first for that level of compensation. By the next morning, the Lakers were going after Artest in full force with Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom and even Magic Johnson reaching out to the Houston forward. LA was acknowledging privately that Ariza was going down the path of Ronny Turiaf, a player the team had great affection for and wanted to keep but couldn't because of economics. Ariza's agent ended up settling for significantly less money with the Rockets, at least based on the expectations he presented to Kupchak. |
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