12/6/2004 04:21:18 PM|||Shep|||

"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Los Angeles Lakes guard Kareem Rush was acquired by the Charlotte Bobcats on Monday for two second-round draft picks.

The Lakers received Charlotte's second-round picks for 2005 and 2008."

We'd been reading about this since at least yesterday... And now that's it's been completed, doesn't it seems like the rumors are exponentially more likely to be true the farther down the player rater you go?

Fantasy Impact

Rush will certainly see more time with the Cats that he did in LA (6.5 minutes). Gerald Wallace and Keith Bogans are not exactly working miracles the way Okafor is in Charlotte. I'm sure Rush will take time away from those two. How much remains to be seen, but it could be enough to get him around the 17 minutes he had with LA last season. That'd give him 6.4 ppg, 1.4 rpg, 0.8 apg, 0.5 spg, and 0.7 3pg... But, he does have a lot more potential than those numbers would seem to indicate, and he will be playing for the Bobcats, where every player can be a fantasy goldmine. Add him to your watch list if you need a SG, and see how his minutes go.

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