EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — It’d be pretty funny if the Los Angeles Lakers made a token salary bid in the Carlos Boozer amnesty auction, assuming their offer at about half the average salary couldn’t possibly be the best one for a guy who averaged 13.7 points and 8.3 rebounds in just 28 minutes for one of the league’s better teams last season.
Imagine the surprise in the Lakers’ second-floor offices upon being told Boozer was theirs after the blind bidding, with Mitch Kupchak and Jim Buss perhaps staring blankly at each other and realizing they totally didn’t want someone reputed to be a low-motor, defensively disinterested, slow-to-heal, unathletic kind of selfish dude.
It’d be even funnier if Kupchak’s actual quotes at Boozer’s introductory press conference Friday were meant to convey that scenario wherein they regretted getting him.
“Unexpectedly for us, our bid was the highest,” the Lakers’ general manager said.
“Not for a second did we think that he’d be available to us,” he added.
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