re: "The thought of leaving the Lakers to go to New Orleans........

This just shows how much better the NFL is than NBA, in both structure and quality of players and league. You never hear players in the NFL bitching about wanting to play in a more glamorous location.. players would rather come to New Orleans (recent development, I know) where they know we have a great team and they know we have a great fan base, than refuse to be traded because they like living near the beach. None of this bush league Big Three stuff, and money cant buy champhionships like it can in the NBA (hello Eagles). Frick the NBA