Ken Berger reported today that there has been some speculation among agents regarding a three way trade that would send Dwight Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers, Andrew Bogut to the Orlando Magic and Andrew Bynum to the Milwaukee Bucks.

Go find the pieces of your head and put it back together like one of those fancy 3D jigsaw puzzles of the world.

This sounds like one of those crazy agent scenarios far too broad and wild to ever come true, but it also might be the very first time a semi-plausible deal has involved Bogut leaving Milwaukee. By semi-plausible, of course that means there is a player returning to the Bucks who has at least enough appeal to make one want to think about what it would be like if he stepped into Bogut’s role.

The last time we saw Andrew Bynum, he was a shirtless, lonely man walking off the court and into the locker room at the American Airlines Center. Fans were ravenously jeering him and Mavericks players had to be restrained from attempting to even the score with him after he inserted his burly forearm into the elfish chest of a mid-air J.J. Barea.

So I’m not so certain a trade that brought him to Milwaukee for long time center and almost All-Star Bogut would go over so well with the fans of a franchise always swimming in the shallow end of the public appeal pool. But that’s not a reason to avoid a trade for a guy.

There are better reasons for that.

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Recap/Box Score

(I know I just put out a piece complaining about the refs, but typically I’m not overly ridiculous or biased.  So this is a more true to form recap.  If you’re a Laker fan and that borderline cry-baby piece I put out before was your first taste, give this a shot.  I’m not typically so homeriffic.  At least I hope not.)

We’ll start with the Kobe shots.  Because really there were two that were the same.  He missed it at the end of regulation and sunk it at the end of overtime.  I’d like the think that shot’s difficult for him, but it probably really isn’t.  Yes, it’s a fade-away and for most of us it would be borderline impossible, but for Kobe?  That’s just all in a day’s work.  And with a 6′3 defender guarding him?  Come on.  So that’s where we’ll start. Read more…

Los Angeles Lakers (Phil Jackson) 19-4

(Likely) Inactives: Luke Walton

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Milwaukee Bucks (Scott Skiles) 11-11

(Likely) Inactives: Joe Alexander, Francisco Elson and Jodie Meeks

Date: 12/16/2009

Time: 7:00 (CST)

TV: FS Wisconsin

Match-Ups

Point Guard

Brandon Jennings vs. Derek Fisher

Fisher is a stat-head’s nightmare.  His PER is under ten.  He is shooting 30 percent from three and less than 40 percent from the field.  He’s basically been living off “veteran ingenuity” for two or three years.  But he’s also the starting point guard on the best team in the NBA, so how bad could he really be?  I’m torn on Fisher and have been for a few years.  Maybe he’s one of the players that these new fanged stats can’t properly asses, I mean they already appear biased towards power forwards and centers.  Perhaps Fisher’s game is still good, but just in unmeasurable ways.  But then I think … nah, he sucks.  And that usually wins the argument in my head.

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