The AP is reporting that Brian Shaw, who helped the Los Angeles Lakers win back-to-back NBA championships, was waived Wednesday, but it's expected he'll return to the team.
Shaw was owed $2.3 million for this season. If the 6-foot-6 guard clears waivers Friday, as expected, the Lakers can re-sign him for the veterans' minimum of $1 million.
Under NBA rules, only $600,000 of that money would count against the salary cap, meaning the Lakers would save $1.7 million in salary cap space and won't have to pay the luxury tax as called for in the collective bargaining agreement.
Had they not made this move, the Lakers probably would have had to pay the luxury tax or not sign Mitch Richmond or Samaki Walker during the offseason.
The 35-year-old Shaw was aware the move was coming several weeks ago.
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In his preview of the Laker season, the LA Times' Mark Heisler writes that once again, and even more than in their immediate, glorious and only intermittently dysfunctional past, the Lakers and only the Lakers control their destiny.
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| Oct 30, 2001
The Houston Chronicle's Jonathan Feigen ranks the league.
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On the surface, it would seem difficult to generate hope in most NBA cities when the eventual champion seems a foregone conclusion in October.
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At this point in his career -- climbing into the ranks of the greatest players in basketball history -- when Shaquille O'Neal really wants something, he usually gets it.
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| Oct 29, 2001
In case anybody forgot amid all the Michael Jordan hoopla, the Los Angeles Lakers rolled through the postseason last spring unlike any NBA team before them ever had.
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Face it, there's no way to write a league-wide overview without comment on The Comeback.
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Samaki Walker might yet win the starting power-forward job by opening night.
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| Oct 25, 2001
There are few worries about a 2-4 exhibition mark.
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| Oct 24, 2001
The LA Daily News is reporting that Phil Jackson is worried about Shaq's free throw shooting.
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| Oct 21, 2001
Phil Jackson coached the Los Angeles Lakers to the past two NBA world championships, and coached the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles from 1991-93 and 1996-98.
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| Oct 17, 2001
Phil Jackson stuck an asterisk next to the question and brushed it aside.
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| Oct 16, 2001
Phil Jackson and Pat Riley found something they could agree on Monday, and the subject was Michael Jordan.
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| Oct 15, 2001
'Tracy McGrady recently was asked to name the best player in the NBA.
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| Oct 14, 2001
On his worst days, Mark Madsen bubbles with enough enthusiasm to power an Edison grid.
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| Oct 14, 2001
Injuries can occur in any season.
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| Oct 14, 2001
The Lakers are having a deferred kind of preseason, with Phil Jackson, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant having spent only three days of practices together, but their injured list is dwindling.
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| Oct 14, 2001
You remember those times you've said or done something and maybe days later you slap your forehead and cry, "Oh no, why can't I just take that back?"
Well, former Spur and current Laker Samaki Walker smiles ruefully and wishes he never uttered one particular phrase:
"The Triangle Offense is Simple.
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| Oct 14, 2001
It's not about excellence anymore for Michael Jordan.
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| Oct 13, 2001
With 17 days to go until opening night, a clearer picture of the Lakers' rotation is beginning to emerge, and it could include Robert Horry as the starting power forward and Slava Medvedenko as the backup center.
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| Oct 13, 2001
As Lakers owner Jerry Buss wanted all along, the club will stick with tradition and hold its championship celebration the night of the first home game of the season.
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| Oct 13, 2001
The Lakers will hold their championship ring and banner ceremony on opening night, Oct.
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| Oct 12, 2001
They are miles from ready, and they'd happily settle for merely healthy.
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| Oct 12, 2001
Coach Alvin Gentry offered a blunt evaluation of the Clippers' 96-85 exhibition loss to the Seattle SuperSonics.
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| Oct 12, 2001
The Lakers are nearly whole now, 13 days into training camp.
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| Oct 12, 2001
In the interest of, well, interest, it's not too early to search for new rivalries for the Lakers.
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| Oct 12, 2001
Mike Penberthy is not a lock to grab one of the last roster spots with the Lakers.
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| Oct 12, 2001
Six weeks after toe surgery, Shaquille O'Neal was at his first practice on Thursday.
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| Oct 10, 2001
Ah, the late 80's.
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| Oct 10, 2001
Back in March 2000, the Lakers were just figuring out how great they could be by reeling off 19 consecutive victories.
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| Oct 9, 2001
There weren't a lot of memorable moments in Samaki Walker's Lakers debut Sunday night.
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| Oct 9, 2001
Wherever Kobe Bryant has lived, the basketball court has been his second home.
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| Oct 9, 2001
By postponing their opening-night ring ceremony--which they have yet to do--they can show some class.
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| Oct 8, 2001
Kobe Bryant, having grown uncomfortable with an ever-increasing crush of fans, well-wishers and the occasional nut, has hired a security detail to accompany him in public.
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| Oct 8, 2001
In one meaningless, ragged exhibition game ridiculously far from the regular season, Mitch Richmond was everything Isaiah Rider could not be.
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| Oct 7, 2001
For 13 seasons in the NBA, Mitch Richmond sat in his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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| Oct 7, 2001
As much as Shaquille O'Neal likes Kobe Bryant now, there's one guy he would be happiest to call his teammate this season: Dennis Scott.
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| Oct 7, 2001
Shaquille O'Neal has established a personal management company that will oversee all of his financial affairs, and therefore has ended his business relationship with Leonard Armato, his agent of 10 years.
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| Oct 6, 2001
Brian Shaw grabbed Joe Crispin around the waist, whirled him around and threw him to the floor.
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| Oct 6, 2001
Ron Harper won't be back, and while Mitch Richmond is expected to be a capable replacement in the back court, he won't be team captain, a role Harper occupied with dignity.
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He was wearing the new version of his personal sneakers with his silhouette on the back.
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| Oct 4, 2001
A month before Devean George's third NBA season, Laker management still gasps at his talent.
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| Oct 4, 2001
The category of bad things happening to good people added another item in July when it was discovered that Derek Fisher had another stress fracture in his right foot.
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| Oct 3, 2001
From the plush confines of the Lanikai Lounge, 25 stories up the Hilton's Kalia Tower, the view is an awe-inspiring mix of seashore, lagoon and endless blue sky.
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| Oct 3, 2001
Here in what he calls his favorite place in the world, the paradise he visits about five times a year, Lakers owner Jerry Buss wore almost all smiles Tuesday evening.
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| Oct 2, 2001
The Lakers scrimmaged long and hard Monday afternoon, and all the relevant training-camp story lines were on display.
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| Oct 1, 2001
The LA Times reports that because of O'Neal's toe injury Samaki Walker will get more minutes in training camp at center, leaving the power forward repetitions to Robert Horry, Jelani McCoy, Slava Medvedenko and, eventually, Mark Madsen.
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