NBA: How a Kobe for Bonner trade would have affected their teams

[Fabbs]

We here at SpursTalk like to speculate on what may have been with influential past NBA players.
Lets look at a couple of similarly talented players and their impact on their 2015 teams.

Bonner was of course part of a 67 win Spurs team.
Kobe was the MVP driving force of a 17 win Lakers team.

Both had about the same amount of made FG's for the 2015-16 season.

However, LakerPhan could argue and rightfully so that Kobes missed FGs had a much larger effect on the Lakers draft position as well as other aspects of the Laker team.

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[DMC]

Kobe's missed field goals were all time classic missed field goals. Bonner never had an all time classic missed field goal.

[Fabbs]

For example if Bonner is on the 2015 Lakers squad, could the victories have skyrocketed from 17 to the upper 20s range?
Does a Bonner presense / Kobe absence take Laker Nation out of lottery position?

[Fabbs]

photo courtesy Kool Bob Love

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