The Lakers should trade Kobe now

[All Net]

Paying 33 million for a 20ppg Kobe is a ver very very bad Deal!

Not when Lakers are in a position to win championship after championship.

[beermonsteroo]

Not when Lakers are in a position to win championship after championship.

You can get players with 20ppg on 40% much cheaper then 33 million. You won't be in a position to play for the title if a 20ppg Kobe is blocking your salary cap options.

[knickscity]

Paying 33 million for a 20ppg Kobe is a ver very very bad Deal!

The 20ppg is an assumption at best.

Even in the next 5 years, if Kobe takes and extensive decline down to 20ppg, that last year will be the Laker saying......

Thanks for all the great years Kobe, now retire as a Laker should.

The aren't trading Kobe and the way the team is constructed........

Pau, Kobe, Artest are lined up for the next four.

That is their core, and the Lakers have always been able to add, and they will.

This thread should be burned by now.

[BlueandGold]

I bet you've got more posts than I do with all your accounts put together.

haha 15,000. I don't think anybody in this thread has as many posts as the account that your on right now. haha you know it's sad when even the most retarded/loser of posters is paranoid of us regular users of having as many accounts as this idiot. I've ever heard him mention his other accounts in other threads.

lol @ this mad kid who never talks about the NBA in the NBA forum as well. I guess all the losers with over 15,000 posts get tired of arguing about the NBA at some point.

[DwightHowardMVP]

I would pay Kobe 40 million for 20 ppg. Stats dont define the kid

[All Net]

You can get players with 20ppg on 40% much cheaper then 33 million. You won't be in a position to play for the title if a 20ppg Kobe is blocking your salary cap options.

If you based a player's impact purely on stats then maybe..

Fact is Lakers are in a position to contend for at least the next 5 years. So even thinking about trading him is just idiotic and makes zero sense. The idea is to win championships not lose.

[Real Men Wear Green]

The whole "no trade clause" thing makes this whole discussion worthless.

[Lyoto15]

Paying 33 million for a 20ppg Kobe is a ver very very bad Deal!

I don't think they care. He will be in what? his 18th laker season? Right now he's been good for 5 rings, they will pay him gladly.

[knickscity]

If you based a player's impact purely on stats then maybe..

Fact is Lakers are in a position to contend for at least the next 5 years. So even thinking about trading him is just idiotic and makes zero sense. The idea is to win championships not lose.

exactly

[knickscity]

The whole "no trade clause" thing makes this whole discussion worthless.

Pretty much, but even if he didn't have it, they wouldn't do it.

The Lakers trade for "greats", they don't just trade them away.

[Lyoto15]

I don't understand why people are so obsessed with kobe's shooting % ?

So he had a bad shooting series fg% wise.. have you watched the series tho? I mean, have you seen some of the shots he HAD to take, have you seen the type of defence he had during the whole series?

Open up your eyes, 40% shooting doesn't tell you jack shit about kobe's game and importance.

[Yung D-Will]

So you win 2 championships in a row so instead of going for a third you trade away your best player?

The Lack of logic is beyond me

[beermonsteroo]

The whole "no trade clause" thing makes this whole discussion worthless.

Ok i didn't know that. But if such a clause exists, the Lakers management is just plain stupid.

[beermonsteroo]

If you based a player's impact purely on stats then maybe..

Fact is Lakers are in a position to contend for at least the next 5 years. So even thinking about trading him is just idiotic and makes zero sense. The idea is to win championships not lose.

I don't see how they an be a contender in three years time.

[beermonsteroo]

So you win 2 championships in a row so instead of going for a third you trade away your best player?

The Lack of logic is beyond me

Of course. By trading him a have achnace to be a contender the next 5 years easily. Keeping him I will be a contender the next two years at max.