Kobe Denies Trade Demand

Too bad there's still not a Vancouver to trade him to.

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If he's all that sincere and concerned about the status of the lakers, how about he follow suite of what Magic did one year to shore up the team. Take a cut in pay to ensure the luring and signing of star players.

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if the owner get off his sorry behind spend some money like he did when they had magic and kareem and shaq. they will be back on top and get rid of smush parker; q brown and chris mimns. they are bum and not helping the lakers out. until then and only then will they be a championship team.

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Michael never made no trade demands, because he knew he was good enough to win with whatever was around him and make it BETTER..Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant were talently gifted players but Jordan made them better..Odom and Brown are good but no Horace and Pip, they fit the Physical description but not the heart, I think the Lakers should start over and trade Kobe, if I was GM I'd be calling Portland and Seattle right now..

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Lakers were a formidable team til injuries took their toll this year.Kobe grew up alot this year and i believe will continue to grow as a player and teammate.Add Vince Carter and a quality center and the Lakers are back in Championship form again.If i was Lakers GM i would start making moves now to get a top five pick next year and draft Roy Hibbard of Gtown.

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Kobe cries on the court and now off if he doesn't get his way. Kobe has one of his best years and gets 2 first place votes for MVP, guess all those Kobe lovers can cry too. Trade him for Wade!!!!!!

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Kobe a cheeser, he ratted out Shaq and many other NBA players when he got caught with chick in Colorado. Nobody wants to play with a RAT.Keep telling yourself Kobe that she wanted it.

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Kobe, get real. If winning was important why did he go out of his way to force the Lakers to get rid of shaq and destroy a team that had dynasty written all over it. He goal was to be the star and score big point. He may be a great scorer but he is poor team leader.

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Kobe has a right to voice his opinion about what the team needs to reach the next level. Most of the comments are from haters who can't get over the fact that he is the most gifted player in the league. For the people that keep bringing up the incident in Colorado, get a life because I know racism is clouding your thoughts. For those who have never made mistakes in this life, I'm not referring to you! LOL

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So Kobe never demanded a trade if they didn't bring West back. What difference does that make? West is RETIRING!! Kobe can wish for West to be "a part of this" all he pleases, but he clearly showed a disrespect for West's decision to call it a career. You DON'T do that to a man who got into the Hall of Fame while you were still in grade school. Period.

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Thank you James, it's good to know someone knows what they're talking about.

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Great time to turn tables Mr. Buss.
Trade his whining, complaining, cancer causing,
team destroying behind to another team. Get a 1st round pick and re-build a winner.

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Why couldn't Kobe just go to the Lakers with this instead of making it so public. Now it will be harder to make a trade and bring West back. Teams will know that they have to do something.

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There is no better player than KOBE BRYANT in NBA or any other Basketball game ever, ever and ever. He is the God of the game. And you less fortunate who talk nasty about him should be ashamed of yourselves. You are not only Kobe haters but you like the demise of Lakers as well. So don't act like you care for the Lakers. Kobe is the only player that packs the Arenas everywhere. Nobody does that, not even Shaq/Wade or Lebron or anybody else. Enjoy Kobe's game while you can while he is still young and can entertain us with his marvel. there is enough hate in the world. You don't need to add more to it. Ric Bucher you are lying. I don't blame you that's also a way of life.

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Kobe may be the best scorer in the league, but he is most definitely not the best leader hands down. The lakers have talent but he has not taken the liberty of upping his leadership status to make sure that they get out of the first round...and now he's trying to tell the lakers org. what to do. Well knowing mitch kupchak, he'll probably do whatever kobe wants to make kobe stay in l.a.

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Kobe wanted to be THE MAN and he got what he asked for. He wanted to be like Mike. He wanted to show that he didn't need ANYONE, and that he could make a team win on his sheer will, like Mike. Unfortunately for Kobe, he's not a leader in any shape or form and his teammates don't respect him as a leader. As a scorer, yes. As a leader, no. He thought he deserved the respect that Shaq was getting from his team and that it would automatically be given to him. Respect is earned, not demanded. Shaq has proven he is a leader. People want to go to Miami, just like they wanted to come to LA, just to play with Shaq. People can't wait to get away from Kobe. Caron Butler, now an all-star is a perfect example. Kobe throws his own players under the bus, and now the team GM. Now he wants to backpeddle on his trade demands. B.S. He's is a spoiled brat that will never win another championship because of his selfishness. He reminds me of Eric Dickerson with the Rams way back when, who thought he was the team, only to just be a cancer to every team he ended up on. Am I a Celtic fan? You would think so by all of this, but I'm a lifelong diehard Laker fan. I've seen them come and go and it's time this one goes! Whew! I need to lay down...

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We're Kobe's tools....

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People say it was a bad trade, when shaq went to miami. there right, but the bad trade was not trading shaq, but what we got in exchange for shaq was GARBAGE. That's the real issue here. We traded the best center in the game for role players and project players.Were still trapped by the Terrible trade Mitch made for shaq. Give kobe a bona fide superstar to play with and it's a done deal.FIRE MITCH IMMEDIATELY, HE'S THE WORST GM IN THE HISTORY OF THE NBA!!! He's the real reason the Lakers are where they are now.

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Kobe is the ultimate "only child". The Fakers will be too stupid to trade his ass because he can score but the fact is the organization is self-destructing because everything is focused on the biggest baby in the sports world! The inability to form a TEAM (or a team mentality) is going to cripple the stupid Fakers as long as they let the spoiled brat rule the roost.

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It is so strange that Wade & King James can take as many shots as they want, Yes Kobe might have been a jerk personally towards Shaq however Shaq was not totally innocent either. Regardless of what anyone says, if it boils down to a last shot there is not a real basketball fan that would rather have the ball in any other ballers hand. You fake basketball fans need to get a life, learn to separate personal from business.

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