Kobe screws up one of the GOAT team ever and now blame the management?

[Keno]

You must a phucking idiot....has haslem EVER average 25ppg in a playoff series or 33ppg in a playoff series and carried the team? Haslem doesnt know shit about that....

what does that have to do with the present? haslem is thirty three years old, kobe is thirty five coming off an achilles tear. at this point haslem is more productive than kobe is.

[kennethgriffin]

A) kobe did take a pay cut. he could have signed a 35 mill / year extension

he took 25 mill/year

B) how is kobe taking a 25mill/year pay cut any different from ring chasing

people on here wanted him to take 10 mill ( 35 minus 10 = 25 )

over 2 years that would be 50 mill worth of pay cuts


now honestly...

speaking to everyone on the board

assuming you already had a buttload of money and a buttload of rings

if someone drove up to your house and said

"HERE... take 1 of 2 things... either 50 million dollars in cash... or a 25% of a chance at a ring nobody will give you credit for since you took 50million in pay cuts to get it"


which one would you take?

[SexSymbol]

Please kill yourself OP.

[NumberSix]

It's Jim Buss' fault for not having the balls to chose Dwight over Kobe and further back picking Antoni over Phil. Jim Buss is a Fcuking loser and always will be. Son of a rich man who will never have what it takes.

[KobesFinger]

Last season the Lakers team help Kobe assemble one of the greatest team ever in Kobe, Gasol, Howard, and Nash. But Kobe had to play KoMe ball and led the Lakers to almost missing the playoff if not for ref help...

And throughout the season Kobe is a dick to Dwight causing him to leave Lakers and join the Rockets whom are now thriving..

And then after Kobe takes a 100 mil in 3 season deal that takes away any chance for the Lakers to acquire other good players...


And now this spoiled boy is blaming the Laker's management???

2013 Lakers weren't even the best team in the West let alone one of the best ever. On name value alone they're one of the best but 38 year old Nash, 34 year old Kobe, 32 year old Gasol, 33 year old MWP, Dwight coming off back surgery and no bench isn't a good team.

He didn't play "KoME" ball either, he averaged 6 assists per game and had multiple stretches of double digit assist games with low 20s or even teens scoring.

Kobe wasn't a dick to Dwight through the season. They both said some things they should've worded differently or not said at all, but Dwight apparently didn't want to be a Laker in the first place.

He also didn't take 3 years $100m. Even his current salary and his next contract doesn't amount to $100m, you pulled that figure out your ass. $30m this year which is an old contract, then $48m over the next 2 which I admit is way too much.

And do you know what he said to the FO? He expects them to work as hard as he does on the court which is reasonable. They go with MDA or PJax or Hollins who were both available. They also said they aren't planning to blow it up for next year even though we have a high draft pick and cap space.

[Marlo_Stanfield]

A) kobe did take a pay cut. he could have signed a 35 mill / year extension

he took 25 mill/year

B) how is kobe taking a 25mill/year pay cut any different from ring chasing

people on here wanted him to take 10 mill ( 35 minus 10 = 25 )

over 2 years that would be 50 mill worth of pay cuts


now honestly...

speaking to everyone on the board

assuming you already had a buttload of money and a buttload of rings

if someone drove up to your house and said

"HERE... take 1 of 2 things... either 50 million dollars in cash... or a 25% of a chance at a ring nobody will give you credit for since you took 50million in pay cuts to get it"


which one would you take?

considering i already have half a billion dollars like Chuckbe i would go with the chances for a ring and it ist a very hard decision either

[Heavincent]

It's Jim Buss' fault for not having the balls to chose Dwight over Kobe

Why the hell would he do that? That's the absolute dumbest thing he could have done.

[kennethgriffin]

considering i already have half a billion dollars like Chuckbe i would go with the chances for a ring and it ist a very hard decision either

kobe doesnt have half a billion dollars in cash dumby

his networth is 200 million

hes spent atleast more than half the money hes been paid in his life through taxes, house payments, helicopters, jewelry for his wife, art, furnature, cars, investments and other dumb crap

hes made 500 million. but he doesnt have 500 million.

and 200 million for a rich celeberity with lavish lifestyles ( like converting lambo's from manual into automatic so his wife can drive one ) wont last very long... i suspect when kobes finished he may keep collecting pay checks for endorsements here and there. but considering hes spent 300 mill in 20 years.. i suspect he'l be running on empty by the time hes dead. so believe me... kobe wants a bit left over for his kids.. and 25 mill compared to 10 mill a year looks pretty decent

yall too dumb to realize it cause your all thinking in terms of the average mans expenses... we buy subway and mcdonalds... kobe eats at fancy restaurants where 2500$ plus 500$ tips are the norm

yall just dont get it.. money still means something to kobe