Can the Lakers improve with Kobe Bryant making $30 million?

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Can the Lakers improve with Kobe Bryant making $30 million? | Ball Don't Lie - Yahoo! Sports

Due to those issues, some think the franchise should take more drastic measures. Kobe Bryant is set to make more than $58 million over the next two seasons, topping out at $30.4 million in the 2013-14 season — making him the highest-paid player in the league by a wide margin. At that time, Kobe will be 35 years old. And while he's still a superstar, it's hard to imagine any perimeter player that age being worth that kind of money under a restrictive collective bargaining agreement.

So, as difficult as it is to imagine the Lakers without Bryant, Beckley Mason of TrueHoop writes that it might be in their best interest to part ways with Bryant:

Whether or not they knew league-wide austerity measures were in the offing in 2010, when they gave Bryant his last big extension, there's no debate that, in basketball terms, the Lakers drastically overvalued their star wing. He is now a volume scorer who is still an excellent player, but the fact is that players better than him -- like Dwight Howard, LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Chris Paul -- are paid way less. Even supposing that, despite his age, Bryant's game somehow remains at its current level, the market price for a superstar has fallen precipitously since his last contract.

By the time Kobe's current contract nears expiration, it will be one of the worst in the NBA -- not because he will have deteriorated beyond recognition, but because the outrageous sum will have such a limiting effect on the Lakers' options. [...]

Is he worth destroying the most formidable frontline in the NBA?

Because, as everyone seems to tacitly acknowledge, that's how much Kobe Bryant costs.
 

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The most formidable frontline is fukking :flabbynsick: did these analyst not watch the games against denver and okc where bynum and gasol barely showed up?

Crackhead bynum and tinman gasol that is who he is betting the lakers future on? The only way I the lakers even THINKING about doing this is if they get deron and dwight to commit to long term deals and even then more than half the fanbase will curse the franchise even if the lakers have the best record in the west.
 

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Kobe gotta match up with MJ per year contract too:mjpls:

With the new CBA, Kobe could reconstruct the contract (not a paycut). Not saying he would or should do it though.

edit: Wrong...didn't make it into new CBA:sadbron:
 

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Kobe gotta match up with MJ per year contract too:mjpls:

With the new CBA, Kobe could reconstruct the contract (not a paycut). Not saying he would or should do it though.
No he can't. You can't reconstruct new contracts. That was in the new CBA.
 

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Yeah they can get better...maybe not good enough to win another title, but who knows...the alternative (eating most of 30mil worth of an amnestied contract) doesn't make them better either, so it's kinda stupid article..the ones where writers reach just to shyt on kobe every year he doesn't win a title...
 
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