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

[Leetonidas]

al-Quobe

[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.

[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....

[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...

[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

CN.