Kobe's next contract:"Going to get as much as I can"

[bluebellmaniac]

Kobe doesn't care about winning. It's always been about him and it always will. He wants his records and signing a quality shooter would only take away from his 30-35 shots a game... :lol :lol :lol

http://m.basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/228820/kobe-won-t-take-huge-paycut-in-2014

[Raven]

that's my man :lol

[bluebellmaniac]

Here's hoping they sign him to a 4 year contract worth $30M a year! LOL!!!!:rollin

[AchillesHeel]

As big of a douche he is off-court, he deserves 15-20 mil a year if he's still a top 5-10 player. Bible Kemp is getting paid like 20+ mil a year. Just being 100% honest here.

[bluebellmaniac]

With max raises, after 4 years he could take up about 2/3 of the team's salary cap.... on a busted Achilles :rollin

[TDMVPDPOY]

so tell me why is this clown favored of shaq when he asked for that 100m/5y contract he wanted? compared to some clown on one leg?

[Thread]

Every red cent he garners:::he has coming to him. Without him we're at 14 & 3 respectively and I ain't even typin' this right now.

- Pap

[ffadicted]

tbqhimho, he still deserves good money. 30 mil is obviously a joke, but somewhere around 15 is more than fair

[MeloHype]

http://i41.tinypic.com/25ezonp.jpg

[Clipper Nation]

Kirby taking a blowtorch to that "2014 Plan" Lakerfan has been consoling themselves with :lol

[Fireball]

Lakers have so much money from their TV contracts ... they can give him as much as he wants ...

[CitizenDwayne]

The fact that he would actually say something like that pretty much encapsulates everything wrong with Kobe.

[Bill_Brasky]

Well he does have a dumb cunt soon-to-be-ex-wife to pay off....

[DPG21920]

#cbacasualty

[My Fault]

#cbacasualty

:lmao

[tesseractive]

With max raises, after 4 years he could take up about 2/3 of the team's salary cap.... on a busted Achilles :rollin

Do it, Mitch!

/Nono

[RsxPiimp]

you people are stupid. it was suggested that he should take a $1 million vets minimum, he responded and said he wont take a paycut and take as much as he can his response was in context. this is nothing new anyway, its called negotiating :lol

[Thread]

Well he does have a dumb cunt soon-to-be-ex-wife to pay off....

& Duncan beat him to it.

Just shows ta go ya.

[Leetonidas]

Honestly to the Laker franchise Kobe is worth a shit load more than his salary, he makes them so much cash just by being Kobe. He won't be worth anywhere near 30 million in terms of bball play or even 20 million, somewhere near 12-15 million is about right, but in terms of what he rakes in for that franchise he is worth a lot more to them than 30 million imo

[Seventyniner]

Honestly to the Laker franchise Kobe is worth a shit load more than his salary, he makes them so much cash just by being Kobe. He won't be worth anywhere near 30 million in terms of bball play or even 20 million, somewhere near 12-15 million is about right, but in terms of what he rakes in for that franchise he is worth a lot more to them than 30 million imo

If there was no salary cap, Kobe would ask for $50+M and probably get it. But if he gets a max contract, he and Nash alone will take up $41M of a salary cap that should be around $60M next summer. Roster charges mean that they couldn't offer a max contract to a free agent. Even if they could convince LeBron to come over, they would basically have only minimum contracts to work with after that.

[weebo]

If there was no salary cap, Kobe would ask for $50+M and probably get it. But if he gets a max contract, he and Nash alone will take up $41M of a salary cap that should be around $60M next summer. Roster charges mean that they couldn't offer a max contract to a free agent. Even if they could convince LeBron to come over, they would basically have only minimum contracts to work with after that.


I hope he gets every last cent from the lakers he can. There is nothing better than watching the lakers spiral down a path of utter irrelevancy. :lmao

[Bill_Brasky]

& Duncan beat him to it.

Just shows ta go ya.

Nope, pre nup.

[HarlemHeat37]

:lol DPG, my guy..


Kobe is still a top 20 player and he generates a ton of revenue for the Lakers, tbh..he has a cult following that literally threatened the life of the girl he raped and they live vicariously through him, tbh..if you allow him to leave, Al-Quobe will literally riot, it's not worth it for Lakers management..

The Lakers aren't going to contend for at least another 5 years IMO..it makes sense to give Kobe whatever he wants and allow him to stat-pad to the scoring record, Laker fans will eat it up, tbh..

[JamStone]

so tell me why is this clown favored of shaq when he asked for that 100m/5y contract he wanted? compared to some clown on one leg?

That's what Shaq ended up getting in Miami, but that's not what he asked for from the Lakers. The reports I've read said he was angling for $30M per year from Buss.

You can argue that Shaq deserved $30M back then more than Kobe does now, but let's not skew a perception that Shaq didn't also want every penny he thought he deserved.

[Chinook]

A max deal for Kobe would be $176M/5. Damn. He'd get $41.5 Million in his final season.

[Leetonidas]

al-Quobe :lmao :lmao

[exstatic]

I hope he gets every last cent from the lakers he can. There is nothing better than watching the lakers spiral down a path of utter irrelevancy. :lmao

[spurraider21]

A max deal for Kobe would be $176M/5. Damn. He'd get $41.5 Million in his final season.
Do it Mitch!

[Sean Cagney]

The fact that he would actually say something like that pretty much encapsulates everything wrong with Kobe.

Selfish dude we all knew that.

[spurraider21]

He should get paid. He's still a top 50 player, provided his Achilles gets back to 100%, of course

[bluebellmaniac]

If there was no salary cap, Kobe would ask for $50+M and probably get it. But if he gets a max contract, he and Nash alone will take up $41M of a salary cap that should be around $60M next summer. Roster charges mean that they couldn't offer a max contract to a free agent. Even if they could convince LeBron to come over, they would basically have only minimum contracts to work with after that.

I'm sure LBJ wouldn't mind signing for the MLE.... :lol

[bluebellmaniac]

If there was no salary cap, Kobe would ask for $50+M and probably get it. But if he gets a max contract, he and Nash alone will take up $41M of a salary cap that should be around $60M next summer. Roster charges mean that they couldn't offer a max contract to a free agent. Even if they could convince LeBron to come over, they would basically have only minimum contracts to work with after that.

He could convince LBJ to sign with the Lakers for the MLE based on the "I'm gonna teach you how to win 5" speech that I hear he's been practicing... :lmao

[Rogue]

It's not like he doesn't want to win, he has just accepted the fact that he's stuck in a sinking ship and knows he doesn't have nothing to chase but $. Reality has beaten his huge ego beneath the ground

[bluebellmaniac]

It's not like he doesn't want to win, he has just accepted the fact that he's stuck in a sinking ship and knows he doesn't have nothing to chase but $. Reality has beaten his huge ego beneath the ground

His ego won't allow the team to sign a scorer to supplement or replace him. He is also close to several records. He wants to pass up MJ in scoring and by as much as possible. If that means sinking the team, then so be it. He needs to take his shots and he wants every point he can make. Doesn't matter if he's taking 35 shots a game on one Achilles, he's gonna be the main shot taker. That said, in his mind he also wants the biggest contract in NBA history. He wants more than what MJ ever got in a single year and that's after you account for inflation. If it meant having 12 minimum contracts on the team + his contract, just to maximize how much he could make, he'd think it was a great idea.... and then complain to the team about not getting him talent!

Nothing is ever his fault. It's the Laker's FO for not signing the right support, it's other players not shooting the ball, it's other players not giving him the ball and he was injured...

I'm going to enjoy these next 5 years of Laker mediocrity... hahahahaha

[Kool Bob Love]

Kirby taking a blowtorch to that "2014 Plan" Lakerfan has been consoling themselves with :lol

CN.