"I'm not surprised," he said. "Beyond that, I don't have any comment."

Kupchak was then asked if, assuming the change went through, he'd prefer to see "Peace" or "World Peace" on the back of Artest's jersey.

"I'm an advocate of World Peace," he said.

"Unless something happens, unless I get some kind of disease where I forget how to shoot, I'll be shooting til the day I die," said Goudelock, taken by the Lakers with the 46th pick in the NBA draft, during a short teleconference with reporters.

Goudelock and Darius Morris, the team's pick at No. 41, will have legitimate shots to make the roster this fall -- or whenever the NBA next convenes, given the lockout that's expected when the current labor agreement expires July 1.

-- He spent two years at the school. As a sophomore, he averaged 15.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 6.7 assists. A third-team All-Big 10 selection, he set a school single-season record for assists with 235. He shot 48.9 percent from the field, 71.5 percent at the foul line, playing 34 minutes p[er game. As a freshman, he averaged 4.4 points, 2.6 assists and 2.6 assists.

-- A four-year varsity player at Windward High, the L.A. native averaged 21.7 points, 6.2 rebounds and 5.8 assists, and was the CIF-SS Division V player of the year as a senior.

Check back later for comments from general manager Mitch Kupchak.

His detachment from the process, he said, reflects his newness in the organization.

"Mitch (Kupchak) and his staff have been doing this the whole year," Brown said. "They have a plan, they know the direction that they're going to go, and I've watched them from afar. They seem extremely organized and methodical in their approach. ...

The D-Fenders, who previously played their games before or after Lakers games at Staples Center, will play at the Lakers' practice facility, the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo.

"We are excited to continue our investment in the NBA Development League as it continues to evolve into a basketball and business asset for NBA teams," D-Fenders Chief Executive Joey Buss said in a press release.

"We're thrilled to welcome the Los Angeles D-Fenders back to the NBA Development League," said NBA D-League President Dan Reed. "The Lakers have been an outstanding partner with the NBA D-League for years, and their return further reinforces our growing significance to the NBA - especially considering they are now one of seven NBA teams with a 'one-to-one' affiliation. We're excited about the terrific fan experience they plan to provide at Toyota Sports Center."

The D-Fenders are one of seven teams affiliated with single NBA franchises. Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Houston, New Jersey, New York and Dallas also have D-League affiliates.

After Dallas completed its second-round sweep of the Lakers on Sunday, Phil Jackson told reporters he was relieved the season was over. That should not, he said, be taken as a sign he was frustrated with the team.

"I'm always relieved when the season is over," he said.

Still, there is a degree to which his final Lakers team perplexed Jackson to the end.

"This team just had an ability to get into a funk and not be able to resurge, to find a common thread and come back and turn things around," he said Wednesday, in his final media session before heading off into a planned retirement from coaching. "I never really had a team like that, that couldn't make adjustments and learn from mistakes."

Individually, it was a good year for Lamar Odom -- good enough that he was the only player general manager Mitch Kupchak was willing to single out for playing well.

But after two championships, Odom found that individual success was fairly hollow when the Lakers crashed out of the playoffs in the second round.

"It's funny, but on the plane, on the way back (from Game 4 in Dallas), that's what kind of broke me down," Odom said. "When I was with Derek (Fisher), and I was talking to him about individual success, but after experiencing championships, to Hell with it.

EL SEGUNDO -- In hindsight, Mitch Kupchak has no regrets about leaving the Lakers roster intact at the trade deadline, even after saying that a change of chemistry might be necessary to shake the team out of its funk.

"We looked at opportunities,but our feeling was that this group had earned the right to fight this through to the end with their existing group," the Lakers GM said. "And maybe we could have tinkered somewhere. We didn't come across something that we felt was necessary to do. ...

"If there was a switch to be flipped on ... then we were more than willing to see if they could do it."

Andrew Bynum suggested Tuesday that one of the reasons for the Lakers' downfall was that the team's practices weren't intense enough. Kobe Bryant, for his part, acknowledged that something was missing because he mostly wasn't able to practice because of his troublesome right knee.

"I think it played a part in the fact that guys felt like they could take days off because I'm not there," Bryant said. "It's like your big brother not being around: You feel like you can go around the house and do all these things with the toys and other stuff, because I'm not on the court with you.

"And it's upsetting to me. They knew going in what my knee situation was, and we communicated that with them, me not being able to practice and them having to pick up some of that responsibility in practice with the intensity and things of that nature, because of my knee.

Getting caught up is at the mercy of the time until Phil Jackson and Mitch Kupchak come in. Please be patient.