Last day for The Lakers to keep Turiaf

Turiaf is definitely not the Lakers' best choice to keep for the price. The man will only be playing limited minutes behind Gasol, Bynum and Odom. And for what the Warriors have thrown at him (16 million for four years?), that would be a bit much for a backup and especially a backup's backup.

You'd think the Lakers will be fine without the spastic Turiaf. But I don't know if the city of Los Angeles will. Besides Derek Fisher, Turiaf is the next player who Lakers fans truly adore. Those two are real people. They have real problems. And they take their jobs seriously and come to play everyday. We don't know them personally, but we sure feel like we do.

Turiaf's dancing will be greatly missed. It was the equivalent to the towel waving of Bill Laimbeer. The secret weapon from the bench. Turiaf's enthusiasm reminds us of cheering on our high school football team when in fact we hated football and probably hated high school, but we had some buddies on the team and wanted to see them do well.

Turiaf, keep up the good work! Keep on dancing. We'll call you later.