Could we please get back to actual basketball games and the playoffs?
Who cares what was said about resigning Shaq three years ago? If Buss said such and such to Kobe, we can repaint the past any color we want. It was done and he ain't going to come back.
After a while, you just get the feeling that attention has drifted onto LeBron James too much and Kobe needs to appear above the crease of the front of the sports page first to fulfill his ego.
The Ducks are vying for the Stanley Cup. Does SoCal care?
Should the Lakers trade Kobe? I think I have suggested that for over two years now, but everyone pooh-poohed the idea.
No wonder Buss was drunk driving the wrong way outside of LA with a 23 year old bimbo to handjob him over the stress.
Can the Lakers just go away until after the playoffs are over? Is that asking too much?
Tough luck JoMal, the Lakers are news any time of the year.
The WC playoffs are pretty much over and the EC has been pretty boring as the ratings are indicating. Trading Kobe would be as big a disaster as the Shaq trade. It's been poo poed because it's a bad idea, it's an even worse idea now.
I know it's tough for you considering the Kings would not make news if they went undefeated in the playoffs.
Only in LA does anyone give a rat's behind about the Laker drama. What does interest them is that Kobe may want out, and there are a number of teams that would like to work something out. This is not Laker news, this is Kobe news.
I never knew that it was Buss that got rid of Shaq. I can understand why Kobe is pissed that the team hasn't gotten enough talent since then.
The Lakers are a long way from being competitive and that makes Kobe unhappy. That would make any decent player unhappy.
Why should he keep quiet? He's been putting up with Laker front-office inadequacies for years and he's clearly had enough of it.
Kobe is the best player on the Lakers squad and if he goes, that will be one less decent player to lead them back to the playoffs.
Right now Kobe is bigger than the Lakers. There are a number of teams that he could make competitive right away. Of course the Lakers will have to get something in return for Kobe, but that would be very difficult. As with the Iverson trade last season, once your player wants out, the team looses leverage and is forced to accept what they can get.
It seems Kobe is putting the Lakers in that situation now for the same reason. A team that's close and doesn't have to give up too much would love to have Kobe. Maybe he wants to be reunited with his Big Buddy Shaq in Miami. The Sixers would give LA Dalembert in a trade for Kobe.
He could fit in well in Houston, Dallas, maybe even Denver. Cuban should go after the Kobester.
