Comments on: To Live and Die In L.A., The Miracle That is Kevin Everett

By: rangel

rangel — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:54:40 +0000

lebron james is a ok player but never better than kobe kobe is raw lebron sucks if you compare him to kobe

By: rangel

rangel — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:52:12 +0000

kobe is the best player in the nba

By: sebatian

sebatian — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:30:33 +0000

kobe cuando sea grande boya ser como vos y kapas mejor yo estoy en una liga de bsas argentina y boy en camino a l agloria

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:44:27 +0000

Kobe is the best player in NBA.Forever!

By: bryant

bryant — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:56:45 +0000

hola
sigo tus pasos

kuando sea grande voii a ser komo vos

nos vemos

chuauu

By: angel

angel — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:30:02 +0000

esta been plakosam la foto principal y espero y salgan mas asy

By: Temple3

Temple3 — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:44:53 +0000

It was amazing to see this brother walking into the stadium yesterday. Unbelievable.

By: michelle

michelle — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:34:05 +0000

God bless Kevin Everett and I wish him a speedy recovery.

By: stopmikelupica

stopmikelupica — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:00:38 +0000

Allen beat me to it. No way Dallas gives up both Dirk and Howard. One may go in a package, but not both. And the Lakers would probably opt for the cheaper Howard.

Once Kobe is gone, the Lakers are so far under the cap come 2009 it’s sick. 2009 is also a big year for free agents. Expect the Lakers to hold on to Kobe for one more season, then trade him and rebuild fast. That’s the main reason they insist on holding on to their youth (Farmer, Bynum, Walton). They’ll be able to bring in two or three big free agents, and become an instant contender in no time. The timeline is 2009. Everything else is just hype to sell tickets and generate interest until then.

Howard and Deng are the only two players I can see the Lakers trading Kobe for now.

By: Sportaphile

Sportaphile — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:07:04 +0000

I know hindsight is 20/20 but its HARD to see how it got to this point. How do you have shaq and kobe and end up trading them both??? I don’t care how bad they fought behind the scenes, I’d beg, borrow, and steal to do everything possible to get those men to co-exist.

You don’t let two hall of famers go due to BS (and that’s all it is for the most part). Pride and ego tore this team apart, and that isn’t limited to the players. The front office is just as responsible in that respect.

By: Temple3

Temple3 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:03:32 +0000

Too bad his son wasn’t a horse trader.

I simply couldn’t pass that one up. My bad for the year.

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:45:04 +0000

Cuban is not trading Dirk and Josh Howard for Kobe. That would be stupid. His team would be much worse.

A better trade would be Howard, Terry, Diop and some draft picks. I could see that, or even Dirk, Terry Diop and draft picks. But you can’t trade Dirk and Howard and still be competitive

By: GMP

GMP — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:35:49 +0000

I can’t see why any of those ‘close, but not quite’ teams mentioned (Bulls, Mavs) would hesitate on those deals. Deng/Gordon for Kobe? I don’t see how that wouldn’t be a complete no brainer for Bulls, and I wouldn’t be quite so enamored of it from the Laker side. Dirk/Howard would be a much better deal for the Lakers (at least I’d think), but I thought Cuban had a hard-on for Dirk?

By: thebrotherreport

thebrotherreport — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:41:24 +0000

As we saw with the Kevin Garnett deal if the players and the picks are right he’s gone and it’s not gonna take two years to happen. Mark Cuban is willing to part with Dirk and Josh Howard for Kobe and I’m sure he’d throw in a draft pick. Chicago doesn’t want to part with Luol Deng but Jerry Reinsdorf has to realize what a draw Bryant would be at the gate. Let’s say the give up Deng and Ben Gordon for Bryant. You still have Kirk Hinrich, Ben Wallace, Andres Nocioni, and Tyrus Thomas. You also have a good veteran in Joe Smith and an energetic rookie in Joakim Noah.

By: publius africanus

publius africanus — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:16:01 +0000

I agree that it is highly unlikely that Kobe will be going anywhere before he can opt out in 2009. However, Dr. Buss is no longer the driving force behind this team. He is turning over control to his son Jimmy, who’s previous occupation was as a horse trainer. I kid you not.

I would also dare to state that he was behind Dr. Buss putting this pot back on the front burner. After the summer the Lakers had and Kobe shows up to camp, says he’s going to keep his mouth shut and concentrate on the season, why in the world would you throw the events of this past summer back in his face? Jimmy Buss is running the show now, and is driving this once proud franchise straight into the ground.

By: mizzo

mizzo — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:15:00 +0000

The problem is Kobe is probably the only player in the league with a no trade clause. No way he gets ship to purgatory.

By: nerditry

nerditry — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:07:48 +0000

When it comes to trades, it’s “to who, for what?” and nothing is going to impress Buss and Kupchak. The only solution that I can think of as working to get more than $.60 on the dollar back is to make it a multi-team deal and get Odom out of there, as well.

Ship Kobe to Chicago, Memphis or someone else with a loaded roster and Odom w/change to Utah for Kirilenko.

By: Craig W.

Craig W. — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:45:34 +0000

I suggest readers not assume Kobe is going anywhere during the 2007-8 season. Like NY, LA is home to so much overhype that stories are created out of thin air.

Kobe does not ‘hold all the cards’, Jerry Buss does – and he really knows how to play poker. Phil Jackson and Kobe may want to go in one direction, but Jerry Buss may not agree and will not sit still for the kind of manipulations Phil has pulled in his past years as an NBA coach.

My guess — Kobe sits for two years and the Lakers somehow look much better by the end of 2009. That’s a gamble, but I wouldn’t bet against Jerry Buss if I were you.

By: michelle

michelle — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:32:43 +0000

This is crazy. The Lakers really know how to mess up a team. It’s sad because one of my favorite basketball memories was the series between the Lakers and the Kings. Both teams at the time were so much better than every other team in the league. Then Webbs knee gave out and the Kobe and Shaq feud boiled over. Waiting in the wings to clean up the mess were the most consistent team of this era the Spurs. There are a lot of factors that go into winning a title injuries and team discord of the opposition–just to name a few. The Kings chemistry was perfect and the young players were being battle tested in the playoffs. The Lakers were also were having problems with their role players but if they would have kept Kobe and Shaq together they could have continued to build around them. Now the Kings and the Lakers look like to franchises going in the wrong direction. Kobe be careful what you ask for cause it may add up to tons of losses.