I just wanted to post my own thread, because it's what I begged Andrew to add to his site...

But seriously, I think this is pretty major... in a bad way for us. Artest might cause an implosion to inadvertently help us out, but all he did was replace Ariza so if he keeps quiet and plays his part, we're looking at that swap being the only significant change to that team. And it's debatable who's better between Ariza and Artest, but Odom is supposedly everyone's bff on that Laker squad so the gel factor is that much harder for Artest to disrupt (if he blatantly tries to, or just happens to by accident... because, you know... he's Ron Artest and all) now that Odom's back.