in the league were giving him the business too. In addition to Payton and Kidd, during that time you had people like Bibby, Francis, Baron, Marbury, Van Exel, J-Will all doing work.

>the trade in this post, but comparing Nash and Stockton isn't
>fair. For starters, Stockton was ten times the defender Nash
>is at this point of his career. Secondly, Stockton was much
>more durable than Nash. Lastly, there are more younger top
>tier point guards today compared to when Stockton was in the
>later stages of his careers. The Nash trade will help the
>Lakers tremendously, but to act as if Kobe and Nash's
>respective ages shouldn't be legit concerns is a bit
>disingenuous.

I think Laker fans know this is basically a push the chips in the middle of a table move to make a last go of it with Kobe and the rest of this group for next couple of years with no other apparent deals on the table. Nobody's expecting Nash to be a savior. There was already talent on this team, one of the main issues was ball distribution. That happens to be Nash's speciality. Sure he's a liability on D but like I've said, it's not like Sessions and Blake were out there locking anybody down either.