Kobe Wants Jerry West Back In L.A. Or He'll Demand a Trade

[HJNTX]

Kobe gets what Kobe wants...Before they lost Kobe, they sent Shaz packin' ...

[BacktoBasics]

He's possibly the worst professional athlete of our time behind Micheal "The Dog" Vick.

Not even Jim Valvano was as cancerous as Kobe.

[TDMVPDPOY]

dude wanted to be batman, creates all this men, and if not carried out according to his plan, he wanna bolt? him...laker fans must be feeling now for worshiping this dude

[Medvedenko]

Yes, we feel like for the leader of our team stating he wants change and possibly make the team better....I guess he can be like KG and say ...and miss the playoffs year over year. Shaq was the same way and even worse when he was in LA. He removed EJ, Elden, basically acted like the GM while he was here....guess what it worked and we won. Superstar players can stay idle and just let things slide.

[BUMP]

He's possibly the worst professional athlete of our time behind Micheal "The Dog" Vick.

Not even Jim Valvano was as cancerous as Kobe.

T.O. might have something to say to that

Yes, we feel like for the leader of our team stating he wants change and possibly make the team better....I guess he can be like KG and say ...and miss the playoffs year over year. Shaq was the same way and even worse when he was in LA. He removed EJ, Elden, basically acted like the GM while he was here....guess what it worked and we won. Superstar players can stay idle and just let things slide.

good point.

[TDMVPDPOY]

Yes, we feel like for the leader of our team stating he wants change and possibly make the team better....I guess he can be like KG and say ...and miss the playoffs year over year. Shaq was the same way and even worse when he was in LA. He removed EJ, Elden, basically acted like the GM while he was here....guess what it worked and we won. Superstar players can stay idle and just let things slide.

yeh he help remove shaq, and wherer has it left the lakers? wait since shaq left the lakers he has gotten himself another ring, while kobe is gettin knockd out of the first round each year.

kobe = robin

[BacktoBasics]

More like Kobe = Catwomen

[Medvedenko]

Funny boys, funny....Shaq=retired.

[trueD]

Welcome to real life, Bean.

First, you made it very clear that you weren't going to play for Charlotte, so they traded you for Vlade Divac. Then, you got nice on the job training as a teenager while veterans like Eddie Jones and Nick Van Exel held it down in the backcourt. Next, Phil Freaking Jackson drops into your laps while one of the five greatest centers of all time stirs your drink to the tune of three straight les. You were one of a Robin during those three years, but there was no mistaking who Batman was on that team.

Of course, this bothered you. Winning doesn't feel so good if you're not The Man, right Bean? So you chase Batman away and suddenly, the fifty, fifty-five, sixty win seasons stop. Championships stop. , second rounds stop. In other words, real life in the NBA happens. Great players don't win by themselves.

Three straight championships almost never happens - the feat has only occurred five times in the NBA's long history. A duo like Shaq and Kobe almost never happens. Baylor/West, Stockton/Malone and Jordan/Pippen are the most comparable examples in league history. Kobe Bryant was part of a three-peat and a top-notch NBA duo, and he was tired of it.

It's too bad for Kobe that #24 wasn't able to travel back in time to advise #8. Maybe Shaq would have stayed. Maybe the Lakers would have returned to the Finals, maybe won another ring. Almost certainly, the Lakers would be no worse off than they are right now.

Kobe got what he wanted in 1996 and in 2004. Now that Kobe has played the Batman role without much team success to show for it, would it really be wise to give him what he wants yet again?

Great post!

Lakers would be better off without Kobe. Sure they would miss his scoring, but how much better can Odom, Walton, Sasha .... , even Kwame be without His Royal Assholeness? Plus, how much is he liable to alter young Bynum's and Farmar's progress just by being a little biatch and causing drama? How much has he already ed up Luke's game by having to be "the man"?

This is Lakers' golden opportunity to get rid of the sour grapes-type leader.

I wonder how West feels about the Kobe-art of manipulation, expressed by Kobe's words that he will ask for a trade unless West returns?

Dear Dr. Buss: Trade Kobe THEN fire Mitch and bring on Jerry.

[TDMVPDPOY]

did the moron kobe forgot there is a no trade clause in his contract? hahahaha clown

[Medvedenko]

I'd rather have a superstar express his desire for winning than standing pat. Is it bold, yes it is...the team was supposed to be designed around Kobe...was it really in the last few years.....Injuries were huge for the team last season...also a lack of talent and no true #2. Oh, and Walton, Odom were having career years prior to the injury.

[LakeShow]

Yes, we feel like for the leader of our team stating he wants change and possibly make the team better....I guess he can be like KG and say ...and miss the playoffs year over year. Shaq was the same way and even worse when he was in LA. He removed EJ, Elden, basically acted like the GM while he was here....guess what it worked and we won. Superstar players can stay idle and just let things slide.

True, and Magic did the same thing with Haywood and Nixon. He also came out with the Fire Wesphal or trade me comment. Once again it worked and they won so maybe it's Kobe's turn?

How can the league salvage a ratings nightmare and loss of interest in the NBA playoffs? Bring in Kobe and the most celebrated NBA franchise, the Los Angeles Lakers! Make every statement by Kobe top billing. "Kobe wants to be traded", "Kobe wants West or trade me", "Kobe doesn't want to be traded", "Kobe just suggested West should be GM and made no demands", blah, blah, blah..... Once again the league brings in the Lakers even though they're not in the playoffs to save them. Now we have Fans in LA and NY and everywhere following the NBA. Way to go NBA!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2884792

[dallaskd]

Jason Terry, Josh Howard, Devin Harris for Kobe.

[trueD]

How can the league salvage a ratings nightmare and loss of interest in the NBA playoffs? Bring in Kobe and the most celebrated NBA franchise, the Los Angeles Lakers! Make every statement by Kobe top billing. "Kobe wants to be traded", "Kobe wants West or trade me", "Kobe doesn't want to be traded", "Kobe just suggested West should be GM and made no demands", blah, blah, blah..... Once again the league brings in the Lakers even though they're not in the playoffs to save them. Now we have Fans in LA and NY and everywhere following the NBA. Way to go NBA!

Kobe makes the news because he's an ass, pure and simple. That isn't the NBA's fault. "The league" following Kobe around waiting for dumb, ignorant statements because the playoffs are slow is laughable.

Although, the theory wouldn't appear to be a huge waste of time in this instance, because there is a story and it has "Kobe Is An Ass" written all over it. Only problem with the story is how bad it makes him and the Lakers look, and thus how it makes "the league" look.

[Oh, Gee!!]

maybe we can trade manu for kobe

[LakeShow]

Kobe makes the news because he's an ass, pure and simple. That isn't the NBA's fault. "The league" following Kobe around waiting for dumb, ignorant statements because the playoffs are slow is laughable.

Although, the theory wouldn't appear to be a huge waste of time in this instance, because there is a story and it has "Kobe Is An Ass" written all over it. Only problem with the story is how bad it makes him and the Lakers look, and thus how it makes "the league" look.

Of course Kobe haters will take these false statements and run with it. If anybody looks bad it's Ric for fabricating a statement. Even in his video attached to his first story, kobe never said hire west or trade me. The league doesn't need any help in looking bad right now, their Conference finals makes them look bad enough!

[LakeShow]

http://news.kb24.com/#301

May 28 :: 2007
The Truth: I haven't asked for a trade
What's up you all.

Haven't checked in in a while,

I'm sure you guys have been hearing all this and that and are not sure what to think or believe.

The Truth section was created for times such as these.

So here's tha deal:

I have NOT asked to be traded, I don't want to be traded and I have given no ultimatums or demands of being traded.

I love it here in LA, my family loves it here.

I've been a Laker fan my whole life. A REAL Laker fan! I'm talkin Silk Wilks days, and know the history of the Lakers going back to George Mikan era. I WANT to retire a Laker and contend for les.

It is my opinion that Mr Clutch, one of the greatest GMs the game has ever seen would b able to get us to back to that level sooner rather than later.

If he is available, then it makes sense to give him the reigns and let him do what he does BEST. I KNOW I can trust him to build us an elite team.

I'm tired of losing and I'm sure you guys are tired of it as well.

Now is the time to step up and make some things happen. We have all have waited patiently for three years...Let's GO!

- Strength and Honor

[ChumpDumper]

"Honor"

[SRJ]

He's such a fan of Laker History that he doesn't even know it's spelled "Wilkes".

I hate the Lakers and I know that.

[Soul_Patch]

http://news.kb24.com/#301

May 28 :: 2007
The Truth: I haven't asked for a trade
What's up you all.

Haven't checked in in a while,

I'm sure you guys have been hearing all this and that and are not sure what to think or believe.

The Truth section was created for times such as these.

So here's tha deal:

I have NOT asked to be traded, I don't want to be traded and I have given no ultimatums or demands of being traded.

I love it here in LA, my family loves it here.

I've been a Laker fan my whole life. A REAL Laker fan! I'm talkin Silk Wilks days, and know the history of the Lakers going back to George Mikan era. I WANT to retire a Laker and contend for les.

It is my opinion that Mr Clutch, one of the greatest GMs the game has ever seen would b able to get us to back to that level sooner rather than later.

If he is available, then it makes sense to give him the reigns and let him do what he does BEST. I KNOW I can trust him to build us an elite team.

I'm tired of losing and I'm sure you guys are tired of it as well.

Now is the time to step up and make some things happen. We have all have waited patiently for three years...Let's GO!

- Strength and Honor

what a tool.


I seriously wouldnt trade beno for this asshat...

HE should have went to college to at least get a bit of an education, would have done him some good.

[TheNextGen]

what a tool.


I seriously wouldnt trade beno for this asshat...

Riiiiiiggght. I bet you'd be the first one in the "welcome to SA Kobe!" bandwagon.