Lakers: Lol Lakersground, Free Agency Edition

[spurraider21]

25 mil expiring is a good deal to trade for. But I think Kirby has no trade clasue so...

he's not expiring

[lefty]

he's not expiring

Kobe is

[spurraider21]

Kobe is

kobe is under contract for next season as well

[Warlord23]

They have some great ideas regarding trading Kirbs, though

These are the only deals that work, imho;

Dallas gets Kobe (Kobe, Dirk, Parsons, Bass, Harris might be enough since the Thunder are injured??)
Lakers get Monta and Tyson

Cleveland gets Kobe (Kobe eLBJ and Love would be favorites in east i think)
Lakers get Thompson, Waiters, Varejao, and Haywood

Knicks get Kobe, Sacre (Kobe Melo would put NY top 4 in the East, but is that any assurance of a ring - not really?!)
Lakers get Amare, Hardaway Jr., Acy

The Dallas move seems like a step back, but Monta is a value contract, and if Tyson doesn't work out, let him walk. Wonder if Cuban would do it?

The Cleveland is the best for the Lakers, but the worst for Cleveland - Thompson and Varejao are integral to their frontline...but I think vets could be signed on the cheap if it meant putting Kobe with eLBJ and Love.

The Knicks trade would be to appease Kobe. The only way Amare has value, is if we could dupe a third team that is trying to unload a rising star, and a bad contract - wish there were more of those!!! 8-)

[lefty]

kobe is under contract for next season as well

Did I say Kobe's contract ?

[spurraider21]

Did I say Kobe's contract ?

who were you referring to?

[lefty]

who were you referring to?

Kobe

[spurraider21]

Did I say Kobe's contract ?

who were you referring to?

Kobe

lol. and kobe isn't expiring

[lefty]

lol. and kobe isn't expiring

he will dieded soon

[Jodelo]

spurraider21 not getting it

[spurraider21]

[DAF86]

lol. and kobe isn't expiring

Are you really not getting what lefty is trying to say?

[spurraider21]

Are you really not getting what lefty is trying to say?

yeah he thinks kobe is literally expiring. im just late to the party

[Sportstudi]

I'm not trolling at all, Kobe is one of the all time greats but he's not a top 25 player anymore. This isn't a knock against him he's 36 years old, most players his age are over the hill.

Lebron had 11 points tonight below 50% shooting and were blown out by 19 points to Blazers. I guess he's washed up too and done according to your logic.

He's only 29 and still in his prime, Kobe is 36 and near retirement. I know it's hard for you to accept but it's the truth. It happened to Jordan and it's happening to Kobe now, father time is undefeated.

Absolutely ridiculous. If that were true teams would not be double and triple teaming Kobe at this stage in his career. And give the guy time. He's obviously still rusty, but he's easily top 10 right now. The real question is can he be top 5.

this dave20 seems the only guy there with a brain. seriously, kobe homers must be the worst fans in sport, downright delusional, no clue of the game.

Kobe has been shooting 40/30/75 so far. That's flat out horrible. Offensive rating of 99, defensive rating of 119. WS -0.1, WS/48 -0.014... if that's not terrible, I don't know what is. And still a top 10 player in the league, just needing time to be top 5?

[Jodelo]

Lol not top 25 anymore haha. There's no way I can take you seriously. Please stop trolling. Not efficient anymore when it's only been five games out of 82 NBA regular season. I advise you not to jump to conclusions this early, Kobe been out for eleven months coming off two major injuries his legs will start to get under him the strength will return and his vert will be close to pre Achilles. I'm a huge Kobe fan and I didn't expect him to look close to this good so soon.

[baseline bum]

Nightwalker Star Player Joined: 09 May 2013 Posts: 1568	Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:44 pm Post subject: Dave20 wrote: KobeBryantCliffordBrown wrote: Dave20 wrote: Charlotte has always played the Lakers tough even when Kobe was in his prime. Now, Kobe is 36 and isn't great anymore. The Hornets have a good young team that plays great defense, we will lose that game as well. Smoke weed much? He's not great anymore, has no lift and doesn't play defense. Still a good player for his age, but nowhere near one of the best players in the league. Kobe might not be great player anymore but he still looks very good to me. Top 10 player today just not franchise player that can carry a team of scrubs single handedly anymore as he did in past 2005-2007.

[baseline bum]

Where did that got carry them in 2005? To 34-48 and the ing lottery even though he had Prime Odom and Prime Butler on his team and you only needed 45 wins to make the playoffs in the West that year.

[Splits]

PHILosophize Star Player Joined: 05 Nov 2012 Posts: 1158

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:32 am Post subject: kray28_ wrote: Potato-Mania wrote: I'd rather him not shoot 37 times. Lin has an open invitation to take shots from him. What's he waiting for? A pass from Kobe, perhaps? 37 shots is way too many. The rest of the team quite literally did not possess the ball enough to put up shots to get in any sort of a rhythm. Jordan Hill and Lin are the two guys I'd like to see getting more touches/shots up. But hey, I'm all for tanking and I will admit its great to see that Kobe can still bring it, so I guess its fine. If I didn't want us to tank, though, I'd rather see Kobe put up 25 shots vs 37, and have those 12 spread between Lin and Hill.

[Jodelo]

Kobe is missing 14 shots per game Lakers lead the league with 14 offensive rebounds per game so lets say half of those offensive rebounds per game are because Hill's or Boozer's man comes to help on Kobe so they get an easy put back. Lakers still get 2 points on the possesion because of Kobe but only negative stat is Kobe's shooting % so whats the big deal here

[lefty]

[hater]

that's gold jerry

[ambchang]

The lakers get half the misses? I have never seen any team get anywhere close to half the offensive rebounds.

[Spurs9]

Lakers make 50% of the shots half the time.

[FkLA]

Smh. If there's a way, no matter how re ed it may be, to credit Kirby for something positive those zealots will find it.

[100%duncan]