Lakers will get this done, they cannot go into this season with this current roster. Ron Artest is fucken useless, Gasol is good, Bynum is just a airhead, Odom is to busy smoking weed and making reality shows.
Howard seeking a trade to the Nets, so lakers can only hope for the Paul trade to come to fruition

I don't feel bad for the Hornets. Not in the least.
CP3 could have left with LeBron, Melo, and Bosh, but he signed a two year contract extension to show his commitment to New Orleans, and they rewarded his trust in the organization by..........?
Denver constructed a team full of crazy people (K-Mart, J.R. Smith, and Birdman), that always imploded in the playoffs (surprise, surprise), and ended up getting the better deal in that trade, so no one should feel badly for them.
Cleveland screwed themselves over.
They said basketball wouldn't work in Toronto. They were right. The only reason that team exists is because Stern feels bad about what happened with Vancouver.
To extend this to the Big 3 in Boston.
Seattle had a number of years to build a team around Ray Allen, but all they did was draft horrible player after horrible player, and further compounded their issues with a myriad of bad trades and signings.
PP could have left, but he stayed.
Minnesota had 12(?) years to build a championship team around arguably one of the 5 best players of the post Jordan era, and they did nothing.