Jeannie Buss talks botched CP3 trade to Lakers after 2011 NBA Lockout (All The Smoke)
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Kobe only spent three years without an elite big, was under contract that entire time, and still demanded a trade.
Get out of here with these trash takes. Dragic at the time was a late 2nd-round pick averaging 7 and 2. Gordon was a #7 pick averaging 22 and 4. This isn't even a comparison. The Rockets didn't even resign Dragic after that season was over, they just let him go and he signed with the Suns for 3 years/$22 million. Gordon meanwhile, was still on his cheap rookie deal and when he did sign went for 4 years/$60 million. Even Aminu was more highly regarded than Dragic at the time of the deal.
Three lottery picks + Eric Gordon >>>>>>>> raw Dragic and ready-to-retire Odom
Yup, they would have made the playoffs with a badly declining Odom and Scola as two of their top players, meaning they weren't gonna get a lottery pick AND weren't getting better either. Imagine them building for the future around Dragic and Kevin Martin with no draft picks.
Why even post in the thread if you're going to outright deny what Jeannie herself says in the OP?
Kobe got drafted to a team with Shaq and two other All Stars on it and got Phil Jackson his fourth season. He had no reason to go anywhere.
MAYBE 5 of yal watched the video 
Thread has nothing to do with LeBron
But when we got something to say it's a problem...
This ain't the Wolves or Cavs. If the Lakers went for sale it would be a price tag of $4B.
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everyone isn't lucky enough to be drafted to a team with the most unstoppable force in NBA history (shaq)
Damn, all the Hornets GM had to do was ask, and CP3 would’ve went to the correct LA team 
Breh probably would've had a ring by now
Breh probably would've had a ring by now
everyone isn't lucky enough to be drafted to a team with the most unstoppable force in NBA history (shaq)
If you watched the whole interview you’d know that Kobe was there before Shaq
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Kobe only spent three years without an elite big, was under contract that entire time, and still demanded a trade.
Gasol was Khris Middleton status before Kob...an elite playmaker would've extended Kobe's career
Miami & GS shifted the landscape of PFs
Lakers realized the league was heading toward non-traditional lineups and would've been well positioned to thrive in that environment with CP0