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Lakers 06-07 Season Thread

I can only hope this spoiled piece of garbage never sniffs the championship again. Gee, maybe you should have worked better w/ Shaq and Phil..... Not so much fun being "The Man" when you are home fishing come May, eh jackass?
 
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THEWOOD;853800; said:
i really hope the bulls can land him. they have plenty of young talent to trade and also the 9th pick this year. i would hate to see deng go but as long as they still kept tyrus thomas i would be happy.

Any Bulls trade for Kobe would have to involve Ben Wallace.
 
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...And Ben Gordon.........and Deng.

It's hard to feel sorry for him. He chose his side of the fence, now stay on it. I believe he had a hand in pushing Shaq out the door or at least helping Buss do it. He's a great player but he still shoots too damn much.

I'd be reluctant to give up the farm for him. Although he's only 28, he's got a lot of miles on those legs.

The whole problem is Kwame Brown and Chris Mihm. They should have kept Caron Butler.
 
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jwinslow;853827; said:
I don't think that's an option, since trades have to equal out in salaries.

I think that's only the case when the two teams making the deal are at or near the salary cap. Teams like Atlanta or Charlotte that have plenty of room underneath the cap would be able to make a deal for him without matching the salary the other way.
 
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exhawg;853813; said:
Any Bulls trade for Kobe would have to involve Ben Wallace.

I think it would be either Ben Wallace, or signing PJ Brown to a ridiculous one year contract so the salaries work(because who in their right mind would want Ben Wallace and that contract now). Some figures I've seen have been 1 year and 10-12 million dollars, in addition to whatever combo of Gordon/Deng/Nocioni/Thomas/Draft Picks.

I doubt Kobe is traded though. How many times during the past few offseasons have Jason Kidd, Vince Carter, Jermaine O'Neal, Garnett, McGrady, or any number of superstars been traded when there was talk they would be? Trading superstars, let alone top three players in the league in their prime, rarely happens, and I doubt it happens this time.
 
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Brutus1;853822; said:
...And Ben Gordon.........and Deng.

It's hard to feel sorry for him. He chose his side of the fence, now stay on it. I believe he had a hand in pushing Shaq out the door or at least helping Buss do it. He's a great player but he still shoots too damn much.

I'd be reluctant to give up the farm for him. Although he's only 28, he's got a lot of miles on those legs.

The whole problem is Kwame Brown and Chris Mihm. They should have kept Caron Butler.

Meh, I don't know if he "pushed" shaq out the door, but I don't think he did anything to prevent it from happening. I am sure if he had gone "dude, without the big man we're screwed, if he goes, I go" then I am sure they would have magically managed to come up with the money for Shaq's contract. However, Kobe had opted out to become a free agent at the time and was talking with the Bulls and the Clippers.

And he can still toss up a lot of points, on a team like Phoenix with someone like Nash he could be awesome, the questionable part is the fact that everyone refers to him as a disease in the locker room, that he kills teams. If thats true, then no matter where he goes there are going to be problems.

And I agree on Caron Butler, I never understood why they got Kwame at all, he proved to be a flop when he was on the wizards, big man, small hands.
 
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Well Kobe Bryant was just on Extra Sports 570 here in LA, it sounds to me like he's not going anywhere, that more than anything he's demanding attention and some changes, which I can understand. I could be wrong, but he said he wanted to be a Laker, now though he wanted a call from the Buss family and for someone to talk to him.

So far we have heard one side of the story as well, no one has head the Lakers side. I would hope Buss will do all he can to keep Bryant here, one of the things that has made it easier to swallow the past 3 seasons is the fact that you have a chance to see Kobe go off for 81, or to tie the NBA consecutive 3 point shot record or many of his other feats.

Personally, I would rather be watching basketball right now, but Kobe Bryant is about all the Lakers have at the moment.
 
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ABJ

Kobe demands, retracts trade request

JOHN NADEL

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - Believing he had been insulted and misled, Kobe Bryant asked the Los Angles Lakers for a trade Wednesday and insisted nothing could change his mind. Then something did. He spoke with coach Phil Jackson and backed off his request.
"I don't want to go anywhere, this is my team," Bryant told KLAC radio. "I love it here. I called Phil, man, he and I talked, it was an emotional conversation, but he just said, `You know what, Kobe? Let us try to figure this thing out.'
"Phil is a guy I lean on a lot."
Some three hours earlier, in an interview with ESPN radio, Bryant said: "I would like to be traded, yeah. Tough as it is to come to that conclusion, there's no other alternative. It's rough, man, but I don't see how you can rebuild that trust. I just don't know how you can move forward in that type of situation."
Bryant also told KLAC, the Lakers' flagship station, that he hadn't heard from owner Jerry Buss, indicating a conversation could go a long way toward resolving the matter.

Continued......
 
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Yeah, he's pretty confused as best I can tell, I have heard all three major interviews, the first one where he said he was lied to and that he's tired of taking the fall over the Shaq trade, the Second with Stephen A Smith where he said he wanted to be traded. On the second Interview, however, if you listen to it he was sort-of helped to that conclusion, same with the third where he retracted the statement that he wanted to be traded, just as with the second, he was helped back into saying that they could work this out.

I don't know what the guy wants, I also don't know a lot of teams that are looking to grab a player who's going to make 49 million dollars over the last two years of his contact (23 next year, 26 the following.)
 
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tibor75;854275; said:
Pretty article by Bill Simmons coming up with the trade scenarios for Kobe.
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