BREAKING NEWS: Kobe to stay with the Lakers

[Splaya]

It is being reported on many websites and ESPN that Kobe Bryant is going to stay with the Lakers. With him now becoming the franchise player for the Lakers, predict what he will do for them now, whether it be good or bad.

I think he will take 30-35 shots a game and become the new Allen Iverson. What are your thoughts to this?

[Splaya]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylc=X3oDMTBpNWZic251BF9TAzI1NjY0ODI1BHNlYwN0aA--?slug=ap-lakers-bryant&prov=ap&type=lgns



That's the first link im giving out

[The Miz]

Why did you make a new thread?

[Splaya]

Cause this one is dedicated to Kobe Bryant and what we think he will do, not the overall free agency period.

[Boomer]

I dun like basketball, but Kobe seriously needed to stay. Major collapse if he had left. I think Lakers I think Big Lew and Magic and Kobe. Gotta keep the intimidation factor and the power of the franchise intact.

[Rob]

Best thing for him. Lakers are a bigger international brand name and he'll make more money on top of his salary there especially with Shaq gone.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

why is this breaking news? It was kind of a given that he would stay after he got Shaq and Phil out of LA

anyways I doubt the Lakers will be very good next year. They might make the playoffs but they'll get destroyed.

[loopydate]

why is this breaking news? It was kind of a given that he would stay after he got Shaq and Phil out of LA

anyways I doubt the Lakers will be very good next year. They might make the playoffs but they'll get destroyed.
They won't be as good as they've been the last five years, but I think they'll be better in five years than the Heat will be. He's a manipulative little philanderer, but Kobe knew what he was doing. He got the coach he wanted and bringing in some younger players gives the team better longevity (plus, they've already proven to be good trade fodder for superstars).

Shaq put up impressive numbers in the NBA Finals against Detroit, but that's because the Pistons refused to double-team him so they could concentrate on not getting beat by Kareem Rush or Medvedenko. In Miami, he's going to be facing that more than twice a year for however long he stays with the team.

A younger, faster Lakers team will not be very good this season (5th/6th seed), but in 2007, they could be challenging the conference elite for #1 again.

[BCWWF]

That Lakers team is not going to be NBA Finals material with that roster, ever. Lamar Odom was good in Miami last year because its the East, and that is the only reason. Brian Grant is far from young, and far from good, especially back in the West. Luke Walton is a good passer but will never match up at all with the better big men. Caron Butler and Kareem Rush are just going to be playing behind Kobe, and Rush will be able to start on most teams in a few years, so he's gone. Gary Payton running the point, thats not taking them anywhere.

The Lakers have had so much success not because of Kobe and Shaq, but because of their role players. Of course take Kobe and Shaq away and they win nothing, but put Kobe and Shaq with the Atlanta Hawks and they are barely over 500. Its so evident just watching, they won games because of Derek Fisher, Kareem Rush, Robert Horry, Deavan George, and Rick Fox. Those guys did their jobs and didn't miss shots in the big games, and that is why Kobe and Shaq were so successful together. The Lakers are better than the Kings because the Kings don't have the role players who do what the Lakers' did, same goes for the Wolves.

Kobe Bryant will not win a game unless he is on a team with five good starters like the Kings and Wolves or unless Odom becomes good and the rest of the guys fill their roles as well as the past guys.

There is no player in the league, not Duncan not Garnett, that you could have put in Shaqs place, what he did is something nobody else can do. Its going to be different in LA now.

I really wanted Kobe to go to the Clippers, but I would have felt real bad for the GM if he didn't come back, because all the blame for the Lakers would have just been put on him, when it was really the owners fault.

[Optik]

The Lakers deffiantly won't be anywhere near as good as they have but I think Butler, Bryant, and Payton is going to be a sick combination...

[The Outlaw]

We will see.

Also, why didnt this just go into the other thread? :s