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Kobe Bryant – Good or Bad For the Los Angeles Lakers?
By giving an injured, 35-year old Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers made an economic, financial driven decision, not one based on the desire to win NBA titles in the near future. However, it isn’t all negative, and his return to the courts after 8 months of an Achilles Tendon injury keeping him away, might not be the worst thing in the world.
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Raptos vs Lakers – Kobe Bryant Needs a Lot More Time
Too much focus on Kobe Bryant, and not enough on the rest of the game. The Toronto Raptors should be a team the Los Angeles Lakers beat at home, but it’s going to take time getting used to life with Bryant, for good or bad, back on the court again. The visitors didn’t mind not having Rudy Gay playing for them anymore by the looks of it.
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NBA Rumors – Los Angeles Lakers Not Giving Pau Gasol a New Contract
After what will be almost seven seasons and two NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, Pau Gasol will probably head in a different direction after this season, knowing that the Kobe Bryant extension doesn’t really leave too much for him to make on his next deal.
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Kobe Bryant & The Lakers – NBA Loyalty Costs Money
No one has really been able to rationalize completely the reasoning behind the Los Angeles Lakers giving Kobe Bryant a two year extension that keeps him as the highest paid player in the NBA. But is this really such a bad thing to happen? It might mean the Lakers aren’t going to be able to give Bryant that sixth title ring he thinks he’s going to get, but it does make a case for franchises compensating players for some years of underpaying them.
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Most NBA Seasons For One-Team Players
Signing a two-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant has a chance to make it 20 seasons with one NBA team, which will be an NBA record for a player on just one team. There are Tim Duncan and Dirk Nowitzki, both playing over 15 years on the same team as well, the only three among active players, but Bryant has a slight lead over them.
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Kobe Bryant Preventing Los Angeles Lakers From Rebuilding
Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in. Michael Corleone said that in Godfather three. Shaquille O’Neal compared Bryant once to Sonny Corleone, but the one getting pulled back in here are the Los Angeles Lakers. Instead of finally getting rid of a cap-crippling contract, they decided to give a player who will be 36 by the time next season begins a two-year extension that keeps him as the highest player in the NBA.
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Los Angeles Lakers – The Writing Was on the Wall
Surprised that the Los Angeles Lakers have been looking this bad early this NBA season? Then you haven’t been paying attention to the downward spiral this team has been in for the last three years, making their 23 points home loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves something that was waiting to happen, and not even close to an upset.
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Top 10 Highest Paid NBA Players in the 2013-2014 Season
Among the top 10 highest paid players in the NBA this season, we find three from the Miami Heat (LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh), two from the Los Angeles Lakers (Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol), two from the New York Knicks (Carmelo Anthony, Amare Stoudemire), another one from the five boroughs (Joe Johnson), a Dallas Maverick (Dirk Nowitzki) and another Texas-based player in Dwight Howard.
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NBA Season Preview: Best Shooting Guards
Our 2013-2014 NBA season preview continues with the best shooting guards in the league we’ll see this season. Despite the injuries, Dwyane Wade and Kobe Bryant are still among the best in the NBA, just slightly less. Contending with them are James Harden, who just might be above the rest already, and two players playing out of position this season: Jimmy Butler and Paul George.
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Don’t Feel Sorry For Kobe Bryant & The Los Angeles Lakers
In a tweet that’s created quite a lot of attention, Tracy McGrady mentioned he feels sorry for Kobe Bryant and the team he has around him playing for the Los Angeles Lakers. If there’s one franchise and one player that don’t need pity from anyone, it’s probably the Lakers – Bryant combination.