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NBA: How Kobe costs the Lakers

What might be a little different than the "conventional" wisdom is that the article isn't nearly as hard on Jim Buss as others have been. A lot of Laker fans still love Kobe, and Buss starting a bloody war with him at this point him could go bad. If the current strategy makes Kobe go silently in a year or two, it will probably look like a good move.

As a Lakers fan, I had come to pretty much the same conclusion as the article...there are going to be some more bad years, and then the franchise can get back to rebuilding.
 
jbhtexas said:
What might be a little different than the "conventional" wisdom is that the article isn't nearly as hard on Jim Buss as others have been. A lot of Laker fans still love Kobe, and Buss starting a bloody war with him at this point him could go bad. If the current strategy makes Kobe go silently in a year or two, it will probably look like a good move.

As a Lakers fan, I had come to pretty much the same conclusion as the article...there are going to be some more bad years, and then the franchise can get back to rebuilding.
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Yeah, the Buss family is such an odd situation in general.
 
Interesting part of that article was how Kobe treated the "sales pitch" to Dwight Howard. If the organization's orders/directives were to "listen carefully" and "dress appropriately" then Kobe should have just stayed home rather than show up in cloths one would wear to the gym! I have never been a fan of Kobe so I am sure I read that article with a very negative slant toward Kobe to begin with.
 
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Kobe could have transformed into the ideal teammate but the Lakers still wouldn't be winning a title with him on a max deal. With the NBA's current salary structure, you can't give a guy with non-max talent a max deal and hope to win a title. And at this point in his career, Kobe is nowhere close to a max deal guy.

Once he is off their books in two years, they'll be fine, but it's going to be some ugly basketball in the mean time.
 
I love articles that throw guys under the bus but never back up their quotes with examples or never name the source.

I like this quote especially:
"It's horrendous. It's evil. It's a hard drug to quit when you're winning," says a front office executive from a rival team who knows everyone involved well. "Kobe has cost the Lakers dearly in human capital. Kobe has hurt a lot of people. In some cases jeopardized careers."
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Whose careers? Please give details. It MAY be true, but that's a big accusation to make.

I like how it's not the Lakers faults for signing an aging Nash, hiring Mike Brown, hiring Dantoni instead of Jackson, etc. And if Kobe is running the Lakers into the ground, that's on the owner and GM for allowing it to happen.
 
Kobe is the definition of overpaid. The Lakers are paying him for what he has done in the past and it is going to hurt them in the future.
 
AdamJGray said:
I love articles that throw guys under the bus but never back up their quotes with examples or never name the source.

I like this quote especially:

Whose careers? Please give details. It MAY be true, but that's a big accusation to make.

I like how it's not the Lakers faults for signing an aging Nash, hiring Mike Brown, hiring Dantoni instead of Jackson, etc. And if Kobe is running the Lakers into the ground, that's on the owner and GM for allowing it to happen.
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Jim Buss must not like Phil Jackson that well.
 
That's all very true, and I've always been a Steve Nash fan, but paying him 9.6 mil this year would be a huge cherry on top of a 'cost' sundae.
 
Salary of Kobe Bryant this year: $23,500,000 Salary of Steph Curry AND Andre Iguodala this year: $22,918,757. Wanna guess who will get more for their money this year?
 
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