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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/kobe-br...201100177.html
Kobe Bryant, Grant Hill and the deal that almost changed NBA history
Sporting News Sep 2, 2016, 3:11 PM
Since announcing his retirement last year, Kobe Bryant has been hailed as a Los Angeles icon. But if a 21-year-old Bryant had his way, that never would have happened.
Ex-Lakers coach Phil Jackson says Bryant asked to be traded during the 1999-2000 NBA season, and that the Detroit Pistons were willing to offer up superstar Grant Hill.
"Kobe was only averaging about 19 points per game," Jackson said, via Today's Fastbreak. "So Kobe called Jerry West and wanted to know how Jerry and Elgin Baylor both averaged 30 points. Kobe also said that he wanted to be traded."
At that point, Hill was a perennial All-Star and one of the most marketable players in all of sports. He was also a full six years older than Bryant.
"Of course, Jerry told me about the conversation. And, for a few minutes I thought about taking the Pistons up on an offer they made to trade Kobe for Grant Hill. Make that a few seconds," Jackson said.
A Bryant-Hill swap would have certainly altered NBA history. Hill might have been an even better compliment to Shaquille O'Neal, who eventually teamed up with Bryant for three-consecutive NBA les. That's if he was healthy, which of course was a problem for Hill the rest of his career.
Bryant, meanwhile, would have arrived in Detroit as a budding superstar with limitless potential and the green light to shoot as much as he wanted. And while nothing would have probably made him happier than that at the time, there's no guarantees he would have been able to win an NBA championship as the lead guy at that time. Just ask Allen Iverson and Tracy McGrady.
That swap could have altered the NBA for quite some time. A healthy Hill-O'Neal combo could have extended the Lakers dynasty from three-straight NBA rings to maybe four or five. Or, if Hill's ankle problems re-emerged, perhaps the Sacramento Kings battle the San Antonio Spurs for Western Conference supremacy. And maybe we get several classic Bryant vs. Iverson or Bryant vs. McGrady battles in the Eastern Conference.
Bryant, of course, would go on to spend his entire NBA career with the Lakers. Hill would leave the Pistons the following summer to sign with the Orlando Magic, where his career would ultimately turn into one of the greatest "what-ifs" of all-time.
They were selling your .
Cool story bro
Kirby
how do you score 30 pts
That sad sack of wouldn't know what loyalty is even if it walked up to him and slapped him.
I'm sure his suckers will find some excuse for this just like they do about '07.
TBH, a healthy Grant Hill would've been better than Two Shawty (Of 7)
It ain't a in' game. It's a business. The only helping hand you're gonna get is when they lower you into the ground. Just like in '07 when he roused the old man and made him toe the line. Result? Another back-to-back.
Only pussies & assholes play the injury card.
Then grabbed Daddy by the scruff of the neck up in Portland '00 and dragged him off the gallows.
Result? A triple.
he also ask the cop to be in his shoes what he wouldve done that night, go finish in the bathroom or just go home...
...you've nary room. Your Neal raped as well. Then you hired him.
Don't fret, it ain't like she was anything to you. Just in the way, temporarily.
Autism
Lakers were selling TOSB, tbh.
They were selling your .
He quit. You've attested as such.
Kobe raped.
Jim is a got.
Absolutely. I never hide my .
You've nary room. Your Neal raped as well. Then you hired him.
No, that's the guy with the statue in front of your building, a monument to gotry.
"How many straight people do you know with that disease?"
--Isiah Thomas
1. 12
2. Spurs won't be retiring Neal's jersey
3. Team full of players yet Dale credits Kobe for dragging Shaq here or there.
4 Fish was always the team leader
5. TMac and AI.. lol
6. tiest teammate in the history of teammates
7. Why couldn't Kermit Washington have played in Kobe's era?
I'll boil it down for ya, D:::
They were selling your .
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