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Multiple Sources: Kobe demands a trade!

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    Multiple Sources: Kobe demands a trade!

    http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2886927

    Bryant asks for trade; says Buss mastermined trading O'Neal
    ESPN.com news services

    Updated: May 30, 2007, 12:56 PM ET

    The story lines that have engulfed the Los Angeles Lakers in the last week hit a crescendo Wednesday when Kobe Bryant said he would welcome a trade.

    "I would like to be traded, yeah," Bryant said on 1050 ESPN Radio in New York. "Tough as it is to come to that conclusion there's no other alternative, you know?"

    Bryant, interviewed by Stephen A. Smith, was asked if there was anything the Lakers could do to change his mind?

    "No," Bryan said. "I just want them to do the right thing."

    Earlier in the day, Bryant said team owner Jerry Buss masterminded the trade of Shaquille O'Neal -- and Shaq later confirming Kobe's account.

    The issues between Bryant and the Lakers have reached a boil, beginning with Bryant voicing his displeasure with the club's direction, his suggestion that Jerry West should return to fix things, West's statement that he has no intention of undermining GM/good friend Mitch Kupchak, and, unrelated but bizarre in its timing, Buss' arrest early Tuesday for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol.

    Bryant was left "beyond furious" by a report in Tuesday's Los Angeles Times that read, "as a Lakers insider notes, it was Bryant's insistence on getting away from Shaquille O'Neal that got them in this mess."


    Kobe Bryant on ESPN Radio

    Kobe Bryant talks about the past, present and future of the Lakers while addressing reports that he may want to be traded.
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    O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat after the 2003-04 season, and the long-held belief has been that the deteriorating relationship between O'Neal and Bryant was a factor in O'Neal's departure.

    In response to the Times' story, Bryant, interviewed by Smith for a Philadelphia Inquirer column, said Buss "called a meeting with me after he spoke with Jim Gray [of ESPN] to talk with him about Shaq's future in the middle of the 2004 season.

    "He met with me at the Four Seasons Hotel here [in Los Angeles] across from Fashion Island, which is now the Island Hotel," Bryant told Smith. "I went up to his penthouse suite. [Buss] looks me dead in the face and says: 'Kobe, I am not going to re-sign Shaq. I am not about to pay him $30 million a year or $80 million over three years. No way in hell. I feel like he's getting older. His body is breaking down, and I don't want to pay that money to him when I can get value for him right now rather than wait.

    "This is my decision. It's independent of you. My mind is made up. It doesn't matter to me what you do in free agency because I do not want to pay [Shaq], period.' "

    "Dr. Buss said that," Bryant told Smith. "And I haven't said anything for years because I've always felt like folks were just looking to create controversy. Now I know. I realize what extent [the Lakers] will go to, to cover themselves."

    Reached afterward, O'Neal told Smith that be believed his former teammate beyond reproach.

    "I believe Kobe 100 percent," O'Neal said when reached in Los Angeles. "Absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind Kobe is telling the truth. I believe him a thousand percent.

    "I would have respected Dr. Buss more as a man if he would have told me that himself, because I know he said it. But he didn't [tell me]. He never said a damn word to me."

    Buss was unavailable for comment Tuesday, as was Kupchak. Buss, 74, was booked early Tuesday for investigation of drunken driving and driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.08 or above.

    The Lakers missed the playoffs in the first season after O'Neal was dealt for Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, Brian Grant, and a first-round pick, and have been eliminated in the first round the last two seasons. O'Neal and the Heat won the NBA championship last season.

    "Sure, Shaq and I had our issues," Bryant told Smith. "So what! We always did and we won three titles. That doesn't change what was told to me. It doesn't change the fact I never, ever, said to get rid of him."

    While Bryant re-signed for $136 million for seven years the day after O'Neal was traded, he has pushed for trades -- he wanted Carlos Boozer, then Jason Kidd, then Ron Artest -- that the Lakers were unable to pull off. Meanwhile, Odom has undergone shoulder surgery but is expected to be ready for training camp in October, Kwame Brown has undergone reconstructive surgery on his left ankle and might not be ready for the start of camp.

    And now Bryant, who reportedly has made it clear to the Lakers that he may see fit to terminate his contract in two years, told Smith he wouldn't continue to wait for Buss to build the roster around him.

    "Promises made to make this team better have not been kept," Bryant told Smith. "So where does that leave me?"
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    Kobe said on SAS Radio show that he wants to be traded!

    I was browsing on Laker RealGM and they say that he is on SAS show and he wants to be traded from the Lakers.

    I'm listening to 1050 ESPN now

    http://stations.espn.go.com/stations...?id=listenlive

    and SAS is talking about it. I can't find any quotes or anything ( since its on the radio )...but 1050 ESPN says they will rebroadcast the show after.

    Listen to it now...SAS is talking about it now.
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    • #3
      Re: fuming Kobe tells ESPN that he is now demanding to be traded

      http://stations.espn.go.com/stations...?id=listenlive

      SAS loud mouth is still talking about it.
      Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.

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      • #4
        Re: fuming Kobe tells ESPN that he is now demanding to be traded

        well he wants to play with JO? Sure! take your pick
        Granger,Williams,Tinsley
        who do you want? ahhaha
        "GIMMIE DAT!"-DANGER

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        • #5
          Re: fuming Kobe tells ESPN that he is now demanding to be traded

          They are going to rebroadcast the SAS interview with Kobe in a few minutes where Kobe says he wants to be traded.

          http://stations.espn.go.com/stations...?id=listenlive

          Wow...talk about deja-vu.
          Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.

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          • #6
            Re: fuming Kobe tells ESPN that he is now demanding to be traded

            Originally posted by OnlyPacersLeft View Post
            well he wants to play with JO? Sure! take your pick
            Granger,Williams,Tinsley
            who do you want? ahhaha
            Well...we have more then enough contracts to trade for him.
            Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.

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            • #7
              Re: Kobe said on SAS Radio show that he wants to be traded!

              yes he did and remember the reports on realgm about it possibly being "One team" he would play for? why the hell would it be the bulls!?
              bahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahah
              oh baby...cmon lets trade for kobe!
              "GIMMIE DAT!"-DANGER

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              • #8
                Re: Kobe said on SAS Radio show that he wants to be traded!

                LA will want the 1 or 2 pick in this years draft and I would too. I also wouldn't do it if I was Portland or Seattle.

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                • #9
                  Re: Kobe said on SAS Radio show that he wants to be traded!

                  Originally posted by OnlyPacersLeft View Post
                  yes he did and remember the reports on realgm about it possibly being "One team" he would play for? why the hell would it be the bulls!?
                  bahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahah
                  oh baby...cmon lets trade for kobe!
                  Get it through your head that NOTHING and I mean NOTHING we have will get us Kobe Bryant. We can send the Lakers every single one of our players, all the money we made during this season and they still wouldnt take it.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Multiple Sources: Kobe demands a trade!

                    Kobe is going to try to get traded to the Bulls or New York.

                    Bulls have Gordon,Deng and contracts and picks to make it work. Why the hell would Kobe want to play in Indiana.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Multiple Sources: Kobe demands a trade!

                      I'm refusing to talk about this...Pacers aren't going to get Kobe...Pacers aren't going to get Kobe...Pacers aren't going to get Kobe...

                      Oh and am I the only one that sees the obvious destination for Kobe? He is going to be a Maverick I'd bet my left nut on it.


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                      • #12
                        Re: Multiple Sources: Kobe demands a trade!

                        Originally posted by Jermaniac View Post
                        Kobe is going to try to get traded to the Bulls or New York.

                        Bulls have Gordon,Deng and contracts and picks to make it work. Why the hell would Kobe want to play in Indiana.
                        Kobe may not want to play in Indiana, but I doubt he will play in Chicago either. He has been trying his whole career to be better than Jordan going to Chicago would only make him be more in Jordan's shadow. He will go to Dallas.


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                        • #13
                          Re: Multiple Sources: Kobe demands a trade!

                          Originally posted by indy0731 View Post
                          Kobe may not want to play in Indiana, but I doubt he will play in Chicago either. He has been trying his whole career to be better than Jordan going to Chicago would only make him be more in Jordan's shadow. He will go to Dallas.
                          You know, I didn't think of it that way, but I'd imagine Kobe just might think of it as being under Jordan's shadow.

                          He's going to be looking for a large market team I would imagine though, so Dallas may be a possibility.

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                          • #14
                            Re: Multiple Sources: Kobe demands a trade!

                            Originally posted by indy0731 View Post
                            Kobe may not want to play in Indiana, but I doubt he will play in Chicago either. He has been trying his whole career to be better than Jordan going to Chicago would only make him be more in Jordan's shadow. He will go to Dallas.
                            No way that Kobe goes to any Western Conference team..if he goes anywhere...he will go to the East. The Lakers will not move Kobe.....a difference maker for any team for the next 5 years to a Conference rival.

                            As to where he will go....I have no clue.
                            Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Multiple Sources: Kobe demands a trade!

                              Kobe just pulled an Artest.

                              Money says he goes East.

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