OGmittee
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This is why fantasy sports is so popular with them, it's like a slave master fantasy. "I'll take him for him, what can he produce for me, i'll pick him up, I own the right to him". Sound familiar?
11/25 Kobe SIGNS 2yr Extension!
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GreatestLaker
#FirePelinka
Kobe wasn't going anywhere. Lakers had all the leverage in the world, but we're in the Jim Buss era. Expect Pau to sign a similar contract.
main reason why as a black man I cringe anytime I hear this shyt
fantasy sports is the most racist shyt in sports right now along with the salary cap and having to go to college for one year
MenacingMonk
Tranquilo
Damn, this shyt already 15 pages? What are you bytches arguing about this time? 
He wasn't going to another team. He'd just go home.
Now Pau getting a similar contract is hard to believe. But hey, stranger things have happened with Jimmy Buss at the helm.
Blake - Nash (will be Injured by 5th the game)Stephen A Smith is on Lebatard's radio show and dude said he likes the deal and that the Lakers can still be a contender if they pair Melo with Kobe, Kaman, and Jordan Hill. Lebatard just asked him what the hell is he talking about putting that garbage team together.
Kobe
Melo
Hill (if Pau doesnt come back)
Sacre
lakers arent going anywhere with that team
idk what this nikka stephen a smokin
Long Live The Kane
Tyrant Titan
After losing out on dwight, this isn't all that big of a deal to me all things considered...I wanted the lakers to re-sign him to the max, resign Kobe to a short 2 year deal like this one and go on from there...that was with me operating under the assumption that the Dwight we'd be signing would be a dwight from a couple of years back before the injury, but even better entering his prime...the Dwight I've seen so far this year is the same one I saw last year, and whatever the reason may be (the back injury taking it's toll, a misjudgement of his potential on my part, etc.), he's just not the player I thought he would be (he went to houston to be paired with the current "best 2 guard in the league", and they're not gonna win anything)...
but that's neither here nor there....once that ship had sailed, there were no players realistically available for the lakers that would've made them top contenders in this year's FA class...I mean, we still have the cap space to sign a max contract guy and we're sitting here acting like the 5 or 6 mil more Kobe is making is the difference between a winning a chip or not...The Spurs are the Spurs, not because Timmy took a pay cut but because of great drafting (parker, manu, kawhi as a draft-day deal) and good low budget player acquisition for guys that fit their system...Timmy's paycut ain't really do sh!t but save the Spurs money in luxury tax (that the lakers can afford to pay, in part due to having kobe on their team the majority of the past 2 decades)...like, if this means we somehow miss out on the privilege of paying a 30 year old melo his next max contract...and instead just ride out with kobe and he approaches the all time points record and hold out for the 2016 FA class, I'll manage
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but that's neither here nor there....once that ship had sailed, there were no players realistically available for the lakers that would've made them top contenders in this year's FA class...I mean, we still have the cap space to sign a max contract guy and we're sitting here acting like the 5 or 6 mil more Kobe is making is the difference between a winning a chip or not...The Spurs are the Spurs, not because Timmy took a pay cut but because of great drafting (parker, manu, kawhi as a draft-day deal) and good low budget player acquisition for guys that fit their system...Timmy's paycut ain't really do sh!t but save the Spurs money in luxury tax (that the lakers can afford to pay, in part due to having kobe on their team the majority of the past 2 decades)...like, if this means we somehow miss out on the privilege of paying a 30 year old melo his next max contract...and instead just ride out with kobe and he approaches the all time points record and hold out for the 2016 FA class, I'll manage
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threattonature
Veteran
After losing out on dwight, this isn't all that big of a deal to me all things considered...I wanted the lakers to re-sign him to the max, resign Kobe to a short 2 year deal like this one and go on from there...that was with me operating under the assumption that the Dwight we'd be signing would be a dwight from a couple of years back before the injury, but even better entering his prime...the Dwight I've seen so far this year is the same one I saw last year, and whatever the reason may be (the back injury taking it's toll, a misjudgement of his potential on my part, etc.), he's just not the player I thought he would be (he went to houston to be paired with the current "best 2 guard in the league", and they're not gonna win anything)...
but that's neither here nor there....once that ship had sailed, there were no players realistically available for the lakers that would've made them top contenders in this year's FA class...I mean, we still have the cap space to sign a max contract guy and we're sitting here acting like the 5 or 6 mil more Kobe is making is the difference between a winning a chip or not...The Spurs are the Spurs, not because Timmy took a pay cut but because of great drafting (parker, manu, kawhi as a draft-day deal) and good low budget player acquisition for guys that fit their system...Timmy's paycut ain't really do sh!t but save the Spurs money in luxury tax (that the lakers can afford to pay, in part due to having kobe on their team the majority of the past 2 decades)...like, if this means we somehow miss out on the privilege of paying a 30 year old melo his next max contract...and instead just ride out with kobe and he approaches the all time points record and hold out for the 2016 FA class, I'll manage
I feel where you coming from but at the very least I would've loved to see the Lakers keep their options open to some degree. With this signing let's be real, Lakers ain't gone be shyt for the next two years. All that free agent money won't mean shyt cause this class really sucks for obtainable players. But at the very least they could've looked to fall into a good player from a team looking to dump salary or something. With Kobe making this much it damn near kills all flexibility. Especially since we don't know what Kobe will look like. If you're going to sign him to this deal at least make sure he's close to the player he was last year. I hate this deal mainly for the timing of it.
That clown thought the Lakers, who are well over the cap could sign Paul George, a restricted free agent.
This is exactly why they should have tanked this season, shyt now that they got him signed they should move Gasol and be horrible.
this
nikkas don't understand that Kobe gave the Lakers a discount
Under the CBA he could have made $65MM+ over the next two seasons. He gave the Lakers almost a $20 million discount for the next two years.
Move him for who? He's a FA this summer. Let him expire.
Long Live The Kane
Tyrant Titan
Yeah...i don't know how flexible we were gonna be in any case ...I mean, we still have a max contract's worth of space to throw around...but I feel you, if kobe comes back and looks like Rose did before he went down this season...maybe the lakers could've just let him walk after the season, and rebuild around Melo and Spencer Hawes
Derrick Williams
3 team deal and grab the player the majority of Laker fans have been pressing for the last couple years.