If the Lakers do trade Kobe to the Bulls

[M Dogg™]

Chicago Bulls:
PG: Kirk Hinrich, Chris Duhon   
SG: Kobe Bryant, Thabo Sefolosha, JamesOn Curry 
SF: Lamar Odom, Andres Nocioni, Adrian Griffin   
PF: Joe Smith, Viktor Khryapa   
C:  Ben Wallace, Aaron Gray

Maybe i don't understand shit about basketball (it's possible), but how is this team so much better than today's Lakers to force the team captain and Lakers leader Kobe Bryant to request a trade to go playing there? The only real big difference i see is that the Bulls play in the East, while the Lakers play in the West. So basically it's Kobe bitching and chosing the easier way to reach the final. If Kobe does something like that he loose all my respect in a minute.

I think this Bulls team would be better than the current Laker team for 2 reasons. Better center. Also they will play in the East so it will be easier to go further in the playoffs. Also, Wallace/Odom/Bryant/Smith are on win today stage of their careers. So it would be a good fit. As for the Lakers, they'd get even younger, with promising players that is kept together, could win in a few years.

Ok, but move that team to the West and you have the 5th seed, nothing better. So doing all this noise betraying your fans to go from the 7-8th seed to the 5th.. isn't something smart, imho. If you have to loose your credibility, do it for a real contender. That Bulls team have no chance of winning the title. C'mon.

I agree, the Bulls will have a hard time getting past the Pistons and the Celtics, but they might get past the Cavs and work their way to a conference finals game depending on how injuries and seeding works. It's up to #24. KB8 though is missed sorely.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

What I think is we should get Deng and Gordon, and a few other youngers for Kobe and Odom.

LMAO...Kobe want to finish his career as a Laker, this idea is absurd.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

See man, if Kobe goes hard on Buss and he forces him to trade him to go playing with Duncan, or Dirk, or LeBron, or i don't know.. in a good team anyway, then i'll accept it. I mean he's just being tired of playing in a young team, he ain't a good team leader but he wants to win. He's a winner, and we can't give him the best team in the league at the moment. He goes, i stay. But if he makes all this noise to end up in that team, or in a team who ain't better than today's Lakers............

Kobe just wants to win...his ideal situation would be to win with the Lakers. Buss proved that he wasn't comitted to that...That's all there is to it...PeACe

[Antonio_]

See man, if Kobe goes hard on Buss and he forces him to trade him to go playing with Duncan, or Dirk, or LeBron, or i don't know.. in a good team anyway, then i'll accept it. I mean he's just being tired of playing in a young team, he ain't a good team leader but he wants to win. He's a winner, and we can't give him the best team in the league at the moment. He goes, i stay. But if he makes all this noise to end up in that team, or in a team who ain't better than today's Lakers............

Kobe just wants to win...his ideal situation would be to win with the Lakers. Buss proved that he wasn't comitted to that...That's all there is to it...PeACe

Do you mean Buss wants to loose?

[M Dogg™]

See man, if Kobe goes hard on Buss and he forces him to trade him to go playing with Duncan, or Dirk, or LeBron, or i don't know.. in a good team anyway, then i'll accept it. I mean he's just being tired of playing in a young team, he ain't a good team leader but he wants to win. He's a winner, and we can't give him the best team in the league at the moment. He goes, i stay. But if he makes all this noise to end up in that team, or in a team who ain't better than today's Lakers............

Kobe just wants to win...his ideal situation would be to win with the Lakers. Buss proved that he wasn't comitted to that...That's all there is to it...PeACe

I agree with you that Kobe would love to finish his career as a Laker, but I feel like he'd wish Buss would give the team to Magic. Word is Buss's sons want Kobe gone, as they are Bynum fans. Mitch, Jackson and Jeanie Buss are on the side that want to keep Kobe and Papa Buss wants Kobe out because he called him an idiot. My personal opinion, trade Kobe, get young talent, and have Magic buy the team and start over. The Buss's are pissing me off. I'm on the side with Jeanie and Phil, Kobe needs to stay, they need to get J.O'Neal and challenge for a title with the best player in the game today. But realisticly, the only way for the Lakers to go is trade Kobe. Kobe and the male Buss's are not getting along, and they want him gone, and Kobe does not want to play for them. Of course if I had it my way, I'd find a way to convince Shaq to stay and have him take a lesser role as Kobe developes into an MVP caliber star.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

See man, if Kobe goes hard on Buss and he forces him to trade him to go playing with Duncan, or Dirk, or LeBron, or i don't know.. in a good team anyway, then i'll accept it. I mean he's just being tired of playing in a young team, he ain't a good team leader but he wants to win. He's a winner, and we can't give him the best team in the league at the moment. He goes, i stay. But if he makes all this noise to end up in that team, or in a team who ain't better than today's Lakers............

Kobe just wants to win...his ideal situation would be to win with the Lakers. Buss proved that he wasn't comitted to that...That's all there is to it...PeACe

Do you mean Buss wants to loose?

No, but he wasn't putting in an effort to win, as he'd done in the past...PeACe

[7even]

how in the fuck can Magic afford the Lakers? I bet it takes at least a billion to buy them. how in the fuck can his ass afford that much money? pipe dream.

[M Dogg™]

how in the fuck can Magic afford the Lakers? I bet it takes at least a billion to buy them. how in the fuck can his ass afford that much money? pipe dream.

that was kinda my point.