Joe Smith Laker is excited to join his latest team (Los Angeles Times)

Veteran forward/Center Joe Smith hopes that it might finally have a shot at an NBA title now that it is negotiated by the Lakers. (Lou Capozzola / NBAE via Getty Images / 29 October 2010)Even Joe Smith had to laugh, saying he had "lost number"NBA teams how he played for a 16 year career.""

Would be 12 as the Lakers acquired it from New Jersey on Wednesday in a multiteam trade that sent a Lakers guard Sasha Vujacic for networks.

Smith was an optional observer practice from the Lakers Thursday after that that he had physical in the morning. It also has a quick tutorial on the tort of triangle team ready to play the Sixers Friday night.

35 And in the final stages of a career in which Smith was the first overall pick in the 1995 draft, he indicated his chance to win an NBA Championship title was passed.

"I've done." But I still hope that something can happen that I could end up in a place like this, Smith said joining the NBA champion consecutive Lakers. "I was excited when I got the call - type of sad and excited."

"This is the type of a two-way street". You are a young group of guys that you've grown close. But at the same time, you have to look at a larger image, especially at this stage of my career. »

Smith played in four games this season for networks, on average 0.5 and 0.8 rebounds.

Smith is known as a 6-foot-10 versatile can play forward and is a good Defender with the ability to demolish 15 to 18 feet jump kicked player and centre.

"The field basketball [I bring you] the same energy that I have always made throughout my career," Smith said. "" "" Defend, bounce the ball drop shots. »

Smith said that he had an idea Tuesday, he was part of the negotiations but is not certain where he was until his agent informed. "I've heard of Los Angeles Lakers and I smiled the whole game," Smith said, laughing.

Smith joked that the Lakers are the "first team that I have been on with no [former] teammates on it."

Already, things have changed for Smith, who opened a Twitter account a month previously. "" I got 90 [supporters] before yesterday, "he says now,"I'm as 1100."" " … This is the fastest time ever. »

Bryant, Gasol off to fast start all-star voting

This is not a surprise to see Kobe Bryant as the top vote getter Thursday released game NBA All-star will play at the Staples Center February 20 elections. But it was a little surprised to see that Pau Gasol is a starter in the front, if the vote was taken late Thursday.

Bryant led the NBA with voice almost 723,000 and Gasol has almost 391,000 voice, leak before Kevin Durant (471 000) in Western Conference passes only in Oklahoma City.

Voting will end on January 23, which means that Gasol, who was starting at the Center for the Lakers, has always fight the Denver before Carmelo Anthony (370 000 votes) for a starting point.

Lakers before Lamar Odom (134,594) is seventh in the West and Andrew Bynum Lakers Center (198,00), who played in two matches after the recovery, right knee surgery a second remote Yao Ming (Houston 431,000) among the centres of the West. Yao has a stress fracture in his ankle and is sidelined indefinitely.

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