Kobe actually wanted the Clippers to draft him and they passed...

[stalkerforlife]

https://nypost.com/2012/02/12/kobe-shunned-bypassed-by-several-teams-heading-into-96-draft/

Twice he worked out for Clippers

[stalkerforlife]

LMFAO @ the Clippers.

[Dray n Klay]

Lol what a meltdown, we all know the truth..

[stalkerforlife]

And he would've played for the Nets...

“Naw,” Kobe countered, “had the Nets drafted me, I would’ve played there and wouldn’t have tried to force a trade. I was 17, bro, I just wanted to ball.”

[iamgine]

Now we know who murdered Lorenzen.

[stalkerforlife]

Wanted the Sixers, but they never gave him a chance...

Bryant never had any reason to believe he would wind up playing in nearby Philadelphia for the 76ers, holders of the draft’s oceanfront lot. There was little doubt Allen Iverson would be the top pick. Yet GM Brad Greenberg invited Kobe in, anyway, for a test run.

“I guess they saw some of my high school games. That was the only explanation I could think of for not being asked to shoot or dribble or demonstrate any of my skills” Bryant said. “All they wanted me to do was to sprint the court. They timed me on a stop watch.”

Greenberg told Bryant him Iverson had run faster.

“So?!?!” Kobe exclaimed.

On the day of the draft, or just before it, Philly columnist John Smallwood implored the Sixers to draft Kobe.

“He said they’d regret it forever if they didn’t,” Kobe recalled.

[Dray n Klay]

Bryant’s agent, Arn Tellem, and then-Lakers general manager Jerry West manipulated that draft masterfully. West wanted Bryant and he also wanted to create enough space under the salary cap to sign center Shaquille O’Neal as a free agent. He ended up with both, reinvigorating the Lakers. The Hornets were more or less pawns in all this.

It turns out that Bryant's agent wouldn't let some lottery teams, including Charlotte, work out Bryant, then a high school phenom from Philadelphia. Eventually a deal was worked out: If Bryant lasted to the No. 13 pick, Charlotte would draft him and immediately send him to Los Angeles for Divac. Divac, though, threatened to retire rather than report to Charlotte, Bonnell reported, and Tellem got on the phone with Bonnell, screaming that Bryant would end up a Laker no matter what. Bryant even threatened to play in Italy instead of Charlotte.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/article207804254.html#storylink=cpy

[stalkerforlife]

[QUOTE=Dray n Klay]Bryant

[Dray n Klay]

IF he lasted to the 13th pick.

IF.

And they all passed on him.

Never before was a HS guard taken in the lottery.


He sabotaged the predraft workouts to hurt his stock

[stalkerforlife]

He sabotaged the predraft workouts to hurt his stock

Reading is fundamental.

[stalkerforlife]

Narrative destroyed.

[raprap]

Rob Pelinka probably made this story up for Kobe. What a liar.

[And1AllDay]

Now we know who murdered Lorenzen.
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