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Ya zipperhead, you.
Cub going Vietnam flashback on cn
Ya zipperhead, you.
1985 - Austrian rock singer Falco records... ROCK ME AMADEUS!!!!
Sans MVPau, you're still locked in the reading room, never comin' out.
your one to talk , your sans chris paul, sans blake, sans clippers.. dont be a hypocrite CN, nobody likes a hypocrite.
You're sans a green card.
thats was re ed. Stick to that grey status b
But Robert Sacre can
LMAO!#!
Dale had nary a post here before Pau took him by the hand.
Back to the corn field.
Seems like a pretty good day to go read that fantastic Henry Abbott article from last year:
http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/stor...akers-downfall
A taste...
IF ONE COMMON denominator has persisted throughout Bryant's tenure with the Lakers, it is this: The blame lands elsewhere, and usually with teammates. O'Neal -- at times a mentor to Bryant, at other times freestyle-rapping to a packed club in Manhattan, "Yo, Kobe, tell me how my ass taste" -- is one in a long line of Bryant's teammates who've struggled to stick to a single script in describing the singular man. Bynum, Gasol and Howard have each been at turns coy, reticent, warm or biting. And, in turn, each has taken massive doses of blame in the media without Bryant meaningfully coming to their rescue.
"I've had a lot of clients in the last five years, good players, who didn't want to play with Kobe," says an agent who has had numerous NBA stars. "They see that his teammates become the chronic public whipping boys. Anyone who could possibly challenge Kobe for the spotlight ends up becoming a pincushion for the media. Even Shaq."
Sometimes the words come straight from Bryant's mouth, like when Bryant told Jim Gray in 2003 that O'Neal -- a perennial MVP candidate and repeat champion -- was "fat and out of shape" and intimated that Shaq threatened to play defense only when the offense suited him. More often, Bryant sidekicks have been assailed by stories attributed to "sources" on the team. Bryant-as-truth-teller is how it's typically framed, but few around the NBA see it that way. More common is the assessment that he undermines anyone who threatens his supremacy. One Lakers insider remembers a time in 2012 when Bynum -- about a year after declaring that the Lakers had on-court "trust issues" -- was due for a contract extension: "Andrew's question in contract talks was: 'How are you going to rein in Kobe?' We couldn't give direct answers. My immediate thought was, Well, he doesn't want to play with Kobe if we can't answer that question."
"I just never felt like the Lakers put as much effort into the building-the-team part of it," says an agent who once had a free agent decline a Lakers offer. "I saw some things in the players' parking lot. Conversations between Bynum and his people and some people with the Lakers. It got pretty rough and heated."
"It's horrendous. It's evil. It's a hard drug to quit when you're winning," says a front office executive from a rival team who knows everyone involved well. "Kobe has cost the Lakers dearly in human capital. Kobe has hurt a lot of people. In some cases jeopardized careers."
He committed to the route, thus the resign. I just find it funny that the detritus of the NBA are the only ones willing to "commit."
That's the measure of the man.
I would like to see the list of FAs that chose to play with Kobe. I'll start:
1) Artest
Artest chose to play with MVPau.
The zipperhead speaks.
Post-Pau.
Old yellow stain.
So how come bad players are the only ones measuring up?
“Most guys don’t want to play with Kobe. He gets in this thing where he doesn’t pass and then overpasses and then tries to get triple doubles every night…that’s why I think it will be a while for the Lakers to get good because they’ve got no stars. I would be surprised if Love goes there.”
- Jared Dudley
There ain't much else. Howard didn't measure up and confirmed it in Houston. Gasol didn't measure up and confirmed it in Chicago. Anthony didn't measure up and confirmed it in New York.
And after the culling, Kobe will have teammates who have deep seated fears of marine mammals.
Brilliant process.
It does no good to sign players like LMA & Howard, and Jordan. It's money thrown away. When you're done signing them, you still can't get there. Makes no gd sense. Why they went there today is our shame, my shame. And I'll shoulder it. I got no other choice.
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