Kobe: 2011 lockout was about restricting the Lakers

[djohn2oo8]

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/17/kobe-bryant-2011-nba-lockout-was-made-to-restrict-the-lakers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


What?

[Buddy Mignon]

He's right. We had just come off our back2back and was ready to retool for another run that would have pushed Kobe past Jordan in ring counts. Everyone knew it and everyone was crying about it. I called foul play first.



Commissioner,
It would be a travesty to allow the Lakers to acquire Chris Paul in the apparent trade being discussed.
This trade should go to a vote of the 29 owners of the Hornets.
Over the next three seasons this deal would save the Lakers approximately $20 million in salaries and approximately $21 million in luxury taxes. That $21 million goes to non-taxpaying teams and to fund revenue sharing.
I cannot remember ever seeing a trade where a team got by far the best player in the trade and saved over $40 million in the process. And it doesn’t appear that they would give up any draft picks, which might allow to later make a trade for Dwight Howard (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3818/). (They would also get a large trade exception that would help them improve their team and/or eventually trade for Howard.) When the Lakers got Pau Gasol (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3513/) (at the time considered an extremely lopsided trade) they took on tens of millions in additional salary and luxury tax and they gave up a number of prospects (one in Marc Gasol (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4325/) who may become a max-salary player).
I just don’t see how we can allow this trade to happen.
I know the vast majority of owners feel the same way that I do.
When will we just change the name of 25 of the 30 teams to the Washington Generals?
Please advise…
Dan G.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/12/09/cavaliers-owner-emails-david-stern-to-block-chris-paul-trade-to-lakers/

[Clipper Nation]

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/17/kobe-bryant-2011-nba-lockout-was-made-to-restrict-the-lakers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


What?
:lol This is a new low for Kirby. You'd think a commissioner who hated the Lakers wouldn't rig so many games for them or talk about how he wanted a Lakers vs. Lakers Finals.

[Buddy Mignon]

:lol This is a new low for Kirby. You'd think a commissioner who hated the Lakers wouldn't rig so many games for them or talk about how he wanted a Lakers vs. Lakers Finals.


The only thing that was rigged was the gift that you got in Paul... and magically you've turned him into to shit. The Clippas are worse than low income ghetto niggas. You may as well move out the community when you see em coming.

[JamStone]

Kobe needs to shut the fuck up. He's not even playing right now.

Why is he going on an interview tour to keep his name in the press? He's completely irrelevant to the current NBA season.

Stop yucking it up with Ahmad Rashad and and GQ magazine and the like and go rehab your shoulder, you little bitch.

[endrity]

Kobe and CP3 would have been a nightmare, they'd have been fighting worse than Kobe and Shaq. Yeah, they'd probably be somewhere in the playoffs, but I don't think they'd have made much noise.

[Thread]

The Cubes did this, and now I read somewhere last week that he now wants to lift the cap.

I'll just bet he does.

[AlexJones]

Bad for the NBA probably. Lakers in the hunt is always best for biz. Ya just got to love every non-Laker fan celebrating the crap out of a regular season 3-game losing streak during that run lol

[LkrFan]

This thread is like pulling the scab off old wounds with some gasoline soaked grip pliers. SMDH

That's why I laughed at you farmers calling Mitch "cupcake". It's cool, they just delayed the inevitable: LA passing Boston in rang totals. They succeeded on keeping Kobe behind MJ though. Small victory, I guess.

[RsxPiimp]

Kobe needs to shut up for real.

As if bringing CP3 will make the Lakers contenders :lmao

[LkrFan]

Kobe needs to shut up for real.

As if bringing CP3 will make the Lakers contenders :lmao

If you actually believe that you got mental issues. D-FAG would have come too making a Big 3 even LeHype and his LeRefs couldn't overcome.

[baseline bum]

Kobe has become not only a tired old shit bag, but a senile old fuck in his advancing age.

[RsxPiimp]

If you actually believe that you got mental issues. D-FAG would have come too making a Big 3 even LeHype and his LeRefs couldn't overcome.

CP3 and Kobe wouldn't work. The Lakers would be spending $20 million on a point guard to bring the ball up and pass to Kobe. Bean's on record saying he doesn't like chumps, that he'll walk over you but the reality is this is exactly why the Kobe-Gasol tandem worked. Luckily for the Lakers, Pau became a nigga (Thanks to Kobe) and found a pair in 2009 and 2010.

[Clipper Nation]

If you actually believe that you got mental issues. D-FAG would have come too making a Big 3 even LeHype and his LeRefs couldn't overcome.
Choke, Kirby, and Dwight would have been a disaster, Manuel. Two ballhogs ,three chokers and three oversized egos.

[100%duncan]

Kobe has become not only a tired old shit bag, but a senile old fuck in his advancing age.

Like this faggot Thread

[RsxPiimp]

Choke, Kirby, and Dwight would have been a disaster, Manuel. Two ballhogs ,three chokers and three oversized egos.

Probably worse than the 2013 Super Team tbh.

[hsxvvd]

Going out gracefully.... he's becoming more and more of parody of himself.

[Killakobe81]

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/17/kobe-bryant-2011-nba-lockout-was-made-to-restrict-the-lakers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


What?

Duh, we saw the response by Cubes and Gilbert ...but no use whining about it.

[lefty]

At least Magic was forced to retire early

[Thread]

^Only because he let his mouth overload his ass back even then.

Nothing has changed.

[Raven]

he is right about the lockout. It was the right thing to do also, the league had become a joke, i mean an ignorant team winning it all just because they have boatloads of money more than anyone and a position of absolute power just isn't right. He is wrong about thinking the cp trade would have changed much for him though.

[Arcadian]

Kobe needs to shut the fuck up. He's not even playing right now.

Why is he going on an interview tour to keep his name in the press? He's completely irrelevant to the current NBA season.

Stop yucking it up with Ahmad Rashad and and GQ magazine and the like and go rehab your shoulder, you little bitch.

:lol Nice... :tu

[baseline bum]

Still :lol at people who think the Hornets should have taken the contracts of Scola and Odom when they were trying to sell the team.

[Pelicans78]

Still :lol at people who think the Hornets should have taken the contracts of Scola and Odom when they were trying to sell the team.

Thank goodness that trade never happened. Props to Stern for doing his job and blocking that trade.

[DMC]

:cry I need franchise players to carry me :cry

:cry Jordan was only good because of his ring count :cry

:cry Chris Paul signed with the Clippers at the end of the season :cry

:cry My metatarsals :cry

:cry My rotator cuff :cry

:cry me :cry

[DMC]

^Only because he let his mouth overload his ass back even then.

Nothing has changed.
Pretty sure someone else overloaded his ass and his mouth.

[SupremeGuy]

lol kirby

[LkrFan]

:cry I need franchise players to carry me :cry

:cry Jordan was only good because of his ring count :cry

:cry Chris Paul signed with the Clippers at the end of the season :cry

:cry My metatarsals :cry

:cry My rotator cuff :cry

:cry me :cry

You seem like a pretty smart farmer. If 50/82=~0.61, then 4+0.61=4.61.

Riddle me this: is 5 > 4.61? Answer: YES! Therefore, since this basic math is a scientifically proven fact, one HAS to conclude that Kobe > DuncanPERIOD.

[unforeseen]

You seem like a pretty smart farmer. If 50/82=~0.61, then 4+0.61=4.61.

Riddle me this: is 5 > 4.61? Answer: YES! Therefore, since this basic math is a scientifically proven fact, one HAS to conclude that Kobe > DuncanPERIOD.

I thought Mexicans were not good at math. :lol

[LkrFan]

I thought Mexicans were not good at math. :lol

Puedo contar. Si no tiene dólares entonces no do son sentido nake! :lol

[DMC]

You seem like a pretty smart farmer. If 50/82=~0.61, then 4+0.61=4.61.

Riddle me this: is 5 > 4.61? Answer: YES! Therefore, since this basic math is a scientifically proven fact, one HAS to conclude that Kobe > DuncanPERIOD.

Government math no doubt

[lefty]

Omg


I can't imagine the shit storm happening at Lakersground right now

[Kool Bob Love]

Feels great knowing he stuck at 5 for the fif straight year.

[Infinite_limit]

Is this about the Gasol trade?

[LkrFan]

Government math no doubt:lol

[DMC]

Being "stuck at 5" is something almost 100% of current NBA players would accept.

[DJR210]

Kobe needs to shut the fuck up. He's not even playing right now.

Why is he going on an interview tour to keep his name in the press? He's completely irrelevant to the current NBA season.

Stop yucking it up with Ahmad Rashad and and GQ magazine and the like and go rehab your shoulder, you little bitch.

What he needs to do is go take his ass whipping from Malone.

[Malik Hairston]

I still don't understand how anybody that has watched the NBA the past 10 years thinks that Kobe and Chris Paul's games would fit well together, tbh:lol..

Kobe doesn't play off the ball, and Paul is arguably the most ball-dominant PG in NBA history..people make the same mistake with Rondo, they think that a player that dominates the ball will easily fit well if he's known for getting assists..

[LkrFan]

I still don't understand how anybody that has watched the NBA the past 10 years thinks that Kobe and Chris Paul's games would fit well together, tbh:lol..

Kobe doesn't play off the ball, and Paul is arguably the most ball-dominant PG in NBA history..people make the same mistake with Rondo, they think that a player that dominates the ball will easily fit well if he's known for getting assists..

LeHype and D-Whistle are both ball dominant. It worked twice for them.

[ambchang]

Kobe is that crazy old man in the park talking about aliens abducting his brother and government out to get him.

Only difference is that he has an audience.

[RsxPiimp]

LeHype and D-Whistle are both ball dominant. It worked twice for them.

Wade was willing to take a back seat. CP3's game is predicated on literally having the ball on his hands and creating a free flow motion of offense.

[Clipper Nation]

LeHype and D-Whistle are both ball dominant. It worked twice for them.

It didn't work until Washed-Up Wade got lazy and started to completely rely on LeBron to drag him to wins.

[Leetonidas]

Yep, it's the lockouts fault that the Lakers traded for Dwight and Nash and failed miserably and it caused Kobe to have 3 straight season ending injuries...

:lol stfu faggot. And why is nartuofan sticking his little chode in here? You're irrelevant like your shit team, return to your anime forums pls

[spursparker9]

Kirby should join TNT after his career end tbh

[RD2191]

Yep, it's the lockouts fault that the Lakers traded for Dwight and Nash and failed miserably and it caused Kobe to have 3 straight season ending injuries...

:lol stfu faggot. And why is nartuofan sticking his little chode in here? You're irrelevant like your shit team, return to your anime forums pls
:lol

[elmanutres]

The only thing that was rigged was the gift that you got in Paul... and magically you've turned him into to shit. The Clippas are worse than low income ghetto niggas. You may as well move out the community when you see em coming.

Stern was the owner. He could legally veto. It's been 4 years. Stop crying about it. You guys still got the best center in the nba before realizing he was dumb at the time for nothing and got steve fucking nash before all those injuries and still kept the core that got you 3 straight finals and 2 titles.

And the lockout was brewing well before 2011 (http://www.nba.com/2011/news/09/09/labor-timeline/)

[LkrFan]

Wade was willing to take a back seat. CP3's game is predicated on literally having the ball on his hands and creating a free flow motion of offense.

Water under the bridge, but CP0 would not only make Kobe more efficient, he'd make our scrubs look halfway decent. Not to mention D-FAG would've shot 82%. CP0 is a good closer too. It would have worked.

[LkrFan]

It didn't work until Washed-Up Wade got lazy and started to completely rely on LeBron to drag him to wins.

They both relied upon Mike Miller snd Ray Allen to bail them out. It happens.

[Clipper Nation]

CP0 is a good closer too.
:lmao


Washed-Up Wade relied upon LeBron, Mike Miller and Ray Allen to bail him out. It happens.
FIFY

[LkrFan]

:lmao


FIFY
Nobody shoots 100% in the clutch Bell B:loly. With Kobe on the court, what coach would double CP0?

LOL at you :downspin: the fact LeHype got bailed outPERIOD. It happened.

[Clipper Nation]

Nobody shoots 100% in the clutch Bell B:loly.
You'd think Kirby stans would want to avoid mentioning clutch shooting percentages :lol


With Kobe on the court, what coach would double CP0?
Neither of them would be doubled because coaches would love to have either one of them hoist up game-losing bricks.


LOL at you :downspin: the fact LeHype got bailed outPERIOD. It happened.
LeBron does the bailing out, Alonso. Deal with that shiiiit.

[LkrFan]

You'd think Kirby stans would want to avoid mentioning clutch shooting percentages :lol


Neither of them would be doubled because coaches would love to have either one of them hoist up game-losing bricks.


LeBron does the bailing out, Alonso. Deal with that shiiiit.

:lol

[unforeseen]

:lol

More like Alfonso

http://www.pausaparanerdices.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Alfonso-Ribeiro-2.gif

[Killakobe81]

I still don't understand how anybody that has watched the NBA the past 10 years thinks that Kobe and Chris Paul's games would fit well together, tbh:lol..

Kobe doesn't play off the ball, and Paul is arguably the most ball-dominant PG in NBA history..people make the same mistake with Rondo, they think that a player that dominates the ball will easily fit well if he's known for getting assists..

I actually agree ...

[Killakobe81]

You'd think Kirby stans would want to avoid mentioning clutch shooting percentages :lol


Neither of them would be doubled because coaches would love to have either one of them hoist up game-losing bricks.


LeBron does the bailing out, Alonso. Deal with that shiiiit.

Slurp

[Clipper Nation]

Slurp

I am a huge Kobe apologist.

[MI21]

Wade isn't to bad off the ball, not a floor spacer but he was great at finding seams with cuts and working the baselines off ball for dunks/layups. Being good off the ball isn't just spreading the floor and catch and shoot opportunities.

[Thread]

Pretty sure someone else overloaded his ass and his mouth.

Christ, can you ever grow up?

[Sean Cagney]

He's right. We had just come off our back2back and was ready to retool for another run that would have pushed Kobe past Jordan in ring counts. Everyone knew it and everyone was crying about it. I called foul play first.



Commissioner,
It would be a travesty to allow the Lakers to acquire Chris Paul in the apparent trade being discussed.Kobe has 5, he would have tied MJ with his sixth IF they won another one.
This trade should go to a vote of the 29 owners of the Hornets.
Over the next three seasons this deal would save the Lakers approximately $20 million in salaries and approximately $21 million in luxury taxes. That $21 million goes to non-taxpaying teams and to fund revenue sharing.
I cannot remember ever seeing a trade where a team got by far the best player in the trade and saved over $40 million in the process. And it doesn’t appear that they would give up any draft picks, which might allow to later make a trade for Dwight Howard (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3818/). (They would also get a large trade exception that would help them improve their team and/or eventually trade for Howard.) When the Lakers got Pau Gasol (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3513/) (at the time considered an extremely lopsided trade) they took on tens of millions in additional salary and luxury tax and they gave up a number of prospects (one in Marc Gasol (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4325/) who may become a max-salary player).
I just don’t see how we can allow this trade to happen.
I know the vast majority of owners feel the same way that I do.
When will we just change the name of 25 of the 30 teams to the Washington Generals?
Please advise…
Dan G.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/12/09/cavaliers-owner-emails-david-stern-to-block-chris-paul-trade-to-lakers/

[Killakobe81]

Kobe needs to shut the fuck up. He's not even playing right now.

Why is he going on an interview tour to keep his name in the press? He's completely irrelevant to the current NBA season.

Stop yucking it up with Ahmad Rashad and and GQ magazine and the like and go rehab your shoulder, you little bitch.

I agree but he has to promote his Showtime doc which was planned long ago. Pretty sure this is a promotional type tour for that still agree with your premise, but I think this was all part of marketing for that. It is mentioned in everything he has done recently ...

[Killakobe81]

CN I at least knock Kobe for poor shot selection ego and the contact extension.
You defend LeBron on silly shit like ducking the dunk contest even though he just said he regrets not doing it brings it up every ASG. To be fair I'm sure he is asked about it too but if he wanted to end that he could have.

[ambchang]

Water under the bridge, but CP0 would not only make Kobe more efficient, he'd make our scrubs look halfway decent. Not to mention D-FAG would've shot 82%. CP0 is a good closer too. It would have worked.

No point repeating yourself.

[LkrFan]

No point repeating yourself.:lol

[Killakobe81]

No point repeating yourself.

No bias, LOL

But that was funny ...