Kobe Bryant: TRADE ME

[bwayne]

I'd kill for a winner in Chicago (except for the White Sox), so I think I could get over the baggage that come with Kobe as long as they keep Thomas.

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

*cough* He said he's not going anywhere *cough*

 

[nash]

denial!

 

[gideon]

Mike & MIke on ESPN radio this moring threw this out /.... Kobe and Andrew Bynum for Deng / Gordon and Wallace. They explained how the big obstacle would be the salary that Bryant makes - 18 million per year and the NBA demands that you get equal value. Giving that they would have to take Ben Wallace with his 14 to 15 million dollar per year salary to even things out.

If I were the Bulls I would say NO THANKS.

I think Bodie is correct - in the end they make peace with Bryant and work around him. Either that or make a loser deal.

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

denial!

News travels slow to remote areas..


< LOL!!

 

[gideon]

I have not heard an update since a few hours ago when I began this thread... BUT ... if Kobe tries to back away from his demand it will be silly. Its like coming home to your wife and telling her you do not love her anymore, want to date younger women and then coming back a few hours later and saying you were wrong. Once its out there its like a 800 pound gorilla in a very small crowded room.

 

[nash]

News travels slow to remote areas..


< LOL!!

denial!

 

[shaun-o]

I went into my bosses office today and told him things wern't going my way and I wanted to be traded to another department. He told me to F off and get back to work.


























BTW Basketball sucks!!!!
Baseball OWNS!!!!!!

 

[nash]

baseball is only good for sleeping. sleepsleepsleep

 

[shaun-o]

Yeah, I Guess your right.

 

[The ill Jedi]

Phil Jackson Pushes Kobe Bryant's "Calm" Button

May 30, 2007 11:08 PM


Kobe Bryant tells ESPN's Dan Patrick that after talking to his coach, Phil Jackson, he is open to the idea that the Lakers might be able to work something out to make him stay. Bryant couldn't give a lot of reasons for optimism, other than Jackson said everything would be OK, and Bryant makes absolutely clear that he trusts Jackson.

Later on Bryant talked to KLAC and backed off the trade talk even further...

Here's the entire article: https://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-24-136/Phil-Jackson-Pushes-Kobe-Bryant-s--Calm--Button.html

 

[the vampire with soul]

She can take me out to the ball game any time

 

[piccolodaimaoh]

It's looking like he will stay in LA if they bring Jerry West back.
If things don't work out in LA he could always come home to Philly.
I would love to see him wear #23 for the Sixers.

Like him or don't like him you have to admitt he is one of the greatest players alive today. Any team would want Kobe, except maybe Miami.

 

[nash]

I think anyone who really believes Jerry West will go back to LA is kidding themselves. Clearly that is not Buss's intentions, and the old man wants his son to run the team into the ground.

 

[gideon]

A little speculation here .... is there any player in the NBA that you WOULD NOT trade for Bryant? The one that comes to mind quickly is Lebron James. Youth is too much in his favor compared to Bryant. Seven years difference is a huge number considering that Bryant is only a year away from his thirties.

I agree with Nash that the Bush Elder and Younger want to keep control of the team and its not in the cards to change that. Once again, its the old plantation mentality - "you just pick in the field we tell you to and never come up to the big house and tell us how to run the place".

 

[DarthNeil]

And who says athletes ae spoiled and overpaid?

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-- baby wants his bottle?

"Trade Shaq or me.
Shaq traded----good.
What? We can't win with just me heaving up 50 points a game? What do you expect me to be a good Canadian boy like Steve Nash who's a hard-nosed unselfish player?

What does unseflish mean again?"

-Kobe

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

And who says athletes ae spoiled and overpaid?

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-- baby wants his bottle?

"Trade Shaq or me.
Shaq traded----good.
What? We can't win with just me heaving up 50 points a game? What do you expect me to be a good Canadian boy like Steve Nash who's a hard-nosed unselfish player?

What does unseflish mean again?"

-Kobe

Shaq made it clear it he believes Kobe 100% that he says he had nothing to do w/ him being ousted from Laker Land..

It was the shotty management..

Get your facts straight before you jump on the bandwagon and rant sir..

We need basketball people in there to run the show.. If it is not Jerry West( whick prolly wont happen), it cannot be Jim Buss. Kupchack is being made a scapegoat for bad decisions (All star Caron Butler for All Bust Kwame Brown was Jim, Buss' move)..

This is just a prelude to a major shake up.. Thank god because we need it..

Also for those castrating Kobe for vocalizing his frusterations, Id prefer he speak up, rather than be like Kevin Garnett who doesnt say a word and his team blows major ass every year.. Wasting premeir talent is a sin..

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

A little speculation here .... is there any player in the NBA that you WOULD NOT trade for Bryant? The one that comes to mind quickly is Lebron James. Youth is too much in his favor compared to Bryant. Seven years difference is a huge number considering that Bryant is only a year away from his thirties.

I agree with Nash that the Bush Elder and Younger want to keep control of the team and its not in the cards to change that. Once again, its the old plantation mentality - "you just pick in the field we tell you to and never come up to the big house and tell us how to run the place".

I think that LeBron would be the only player worthy of a Kobe trade, perhaps Dirk or Nash, if we are talking straight up.. The Buss' need to step aside and let basketball minds make the decisions..

 

[Darth Caedus]

GO DUCKS !!!!!

 

[devlinboy]

lets go mets!!!

and let jeanie buss run the damn team already. kobe is the man. ill trade any one and combo of anyone on the knicks team but david lee for him asap.