Q: What has been the process in bringing Sun over to the Lakers?
MK: We drafted him a year ago and our feeling at that time was that because we had 2 picks in the second round, the other being Marc Gasol, we felt that if we drafted players who were not from our country we could encourage them to play internationally because we really didn't have room on our roster in 2007-08 and if we would have drafted an American player, he probably would have come to camp and we probably would have had to cut him, even if he was pretty good. So we wanted to draft guys that we could encourage to stay in Europe or in Sun's case, in China, to play, because our roster wasn't flexible enough and in Sun's case we thought he needed another year of play. As it turns out, Marc Gasol had another year of play also and he blossomed as a player; he really had a good year in Europe. We also knew that we would have room this year on our...read full article
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