Sessions in Fisher out

Sessions Joins Lakers

The NBA trade deadline has come and gone and the lakers ended up making two deals on this final day.  The first deal brought the lakers Ramon Sessions in exchange for Luke Walton, Jason Kapono, and a draft pick.  This deal made a lot of sense, Sessions seams to be a very good upgrade at the point guard position, which was by far the lakers most obvious weakness.  The second deal landed the lakers Jordan Hill from Houston in exchange for Derek Fisher.  The lakers clearly had too many PGs, but I would have rather started Sessions and had Fisher coming off of the bench for his clutch factor.  It's sad to see Fisher go, but I guess this was an issue of money.  The lakers worked pretty hard to try and land Michael Beasley from Minnesota in a 3-team deal that also included the Blazers, but that ultimately fell through.  I was really hoping that that deal would happen.  I think Beasley would have fit a lot better with LA than he does with the timberwolves.  All in all, I think the Lakers did make a good move in getting Sessions, but I'm very conflicted with the fact that they traded Fisher, and I wish they could have landed Beasley as well.  It will be interesting to see if the lakers consider adding Gilbert Arenas and/or Rasheed Wallace now that the deadline has passed.  The lakers play the wolves tomorrow, so we won't have to wait too long to see how these changes effect the team.