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2007-06-18 15:51:18 · 15 answers · asked by robert f 1 in Sports ➔ Basketball
I think it would be fun if some team (Lakers here) took the tack of sitting the jerkwad down for the rest of his contract and let his skills erode. If they did this for maybe 20 games, the Baby might have a change of thinking and conform to team play if it were perceived as a privilege rather than a birthright. It isn't likely to happen, but as more of the whining stars keep wrapping franchises around their pinkies, SOMEone's gonna have to step up and reverse the trend of kowtowing to these prima donnas.
2007-06-22 14:11:29 · answer #1 · answered by wingo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will never trade him, he'll have to wait 2 years to opt out of his contract. Kobe plays in Hollywood, and there is no player in the NBA today that can put on a show like him. Hes the only reason people pay all that money to watch the otherwise dismal Lakers. No chance he gets let go, he'll have to leave himself.
2007-06-18 22:55:36 · answer #2 · answered by D.Z. Carter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kobe is essentially untradeable. They won't give him away, and no one has value. There is talk that the Knicks are interested, but Jerry Buss isn't interested in the three guys Isaiah Thomas is offering. Chicago? Maybe, but for who? And will the Lakers be better with what they get? Probably not.
If they can't trade him, he will have to try to be a leader in the locker room, which is full of players he essentially dissed. They can't sit him. He's got to play.
The Lakers are in big trouble.
2007-06-18 22:57:37 · answer #3 · answered by davegretw1997 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buss seems stuck with no real options on the table. It'll be 2 more years of the Lakers losing with Kobe, and then he'll opt out of his contract leaving the Lakers with nothing.
2007-06-18 23:19:49 · answer #4 · answered by christophe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would act like Kobe if I was in his situation. He wants a contending team, but he has seen great players, that Jerry Buss could have signed but never did. If I want a championship badly, I would do anything to get one. That is what Kobe is trying to do. Kobe on the basketball floors> Terrell Owens on the football field. Kobe does more for the NBA than Owens does for the NFL. Buss has implied that he doesn't want to trade Kobe, even I wouldn't want to trade a great player like him. However, if Kobe insists he wants to be traded, you have to obey that. Also, I doubt Kobe would go to the extent Owens did.
2007-06-18 23:01:20 · answer #5 · answered by Zimmy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Kobe is going to force the Lakers to trade him, or they will risk losing him in free agency and get nothing in return.
2007-06-18 23:12:44 · answer #6 · answered by WestCoastin4Life 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if kobe acts like T0 then he will be traded. they wont being paying that much to sit on the bench. plus i think he will be traded to the chicago bulls.
2007-06-18 22:55:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will do neither because there are no other stars like Donovan for him to screw up in Los Angeles for that main reason there is very little chance that the team would deactivate him unless he just started going crazy
2007-06-18 22:55:03 · answer #8 · answered by wikiman 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
KOBE BRYANT ACTS LIKE PARIS HILTON nowadays...i guess hes very upset coz he only made it in the first round...
i hop hell mature more... he's gud as an individual but not gud wen it comes to leadership...
2007-06-18 23:08:56 · answer #9 · answered by x_X_x 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
thanks for the laugh. deactivate him???? lol the g.m. that wants to get fired will.
players like TO are plenty in the nfl but players like kobe in the nba....only 2-3 players come to mind that compare to kobe.
2007-06-18 23:00:05 · answer #10 · answered by Fatal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋