If we come up empty in FA again, is it Kobe's fault?

Kobe2Clark · Star Player Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 6047

Looks like without him, we don't even get dignified with a meeting by Durant. It was very easy to blame Kobe but the reality seems to be that today's stars want teams that are ready to contend...
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KBH · Franchise Player Joined: 13 Sep 2008 Posts: 12171

Henry Abbott's working on his annual column detailing how Kobe has destroyed the Lakers franchise as we speak.

True Lakers Fan · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:05 am Post subject:

No?????
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KindCrippler2000 · Franchise Player Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 15821

Kobe is irrelevant now.

jjangx27 · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:09 am Post subject:

duh...of course it's kobe's fault. it's always kobe's fault.

kobe retires to much

Lucky_Shot · Star Player Joined: 10 Jan 2016 Posts: 5140

We used kobes huge contract to tank a few years, intentionally or not.

Thugnomoe · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:11 am Post subject:

stupid kobe destroyed the franchise by bringing us 5 championships..

danzag · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:12 am Post subject:

vanexelent · Retired Number Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 30081

His final alone was worth his last contract.

JH from Hemet · Starting Rotation Joined: 25 Jun 2016 Posts: 518

The Kobe farewell tour is over.........

Today is a new day..........

I have a good feeling about this offseason

Cochese · Starting Rotation Joined: 23 Apr 2016 Posts: 957

They'll just put it on Jim Buss.

jjangx27 · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:14 am Post subject:

pio2u · Retired Number Joined: 26 Dec 2012 Posts: 54570

Haters gonna hate ...... FOREVER!

Lakers5150 · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:16 am Post subject:

Yeah it's Kobe's fault. Good god. Really?
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kikanga · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:19 am Post subject:

I said this the past couple offseasons when people kept blaming Kobe for our free agency failures.

Said this offseason would put that theory to the test.
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Omar Little · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:32 am Post subject:

No. To attrace orime free agents, you usually have to have a solid team. We've been down at ground zero collecting draft assets. We now need to move forward to respectability, through growth of those assets and what value we can sign. If we get lucky, great, if not, onward and upward.
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Fracture · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:42 am Post subject:

Durant was a pipe dream but some ppl here are delusional. A player of his caliber ain't coming to a (bleep) team.

mad55557777 · Franchise Player Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 23128

Henry abbot, tom penn and the rest of ESPN garbage writers are coming up with creative ways of blaming this on Kobe.

It was never kobes problem. Even though ESPN might want people to believe that Kobe was the reason that the lakers couldn't get free agents all these years,but first of all, the lakers had salary cap to sign max players only 3 times during kobes career, and it was all after his injury, and the l,sees were irrelevant, so to blame these on Kobe is ridiculous.

That LMA meeting was a (bleep) joke, I am so glad LMA came out and clear the air on that bs

tox · Franchise Player Joined: 16 Nov 2015 Posts: 17876

The only way it was his fault was that he was taking up 35% of the cap while providing little (if any) positive impact on the court, instead of signing productive players with that money. So the Lakers were terrible.

Evidently their terrible '15-'16 record, to which Kobe and his contract contributed, will be why Durant doesn't even meet with the Lakers.

Take from that what you will.

City_Dawg · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:38 am Post subject:

LEAVE KOBE ALONE!

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Genaro · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:06 am Post subject:

ESPN will sure find a way of blaming Kobe. As we speak they're thinking about something.

Or they will just find another whooping boy like Jim or DLO.

venturalakersfan · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:08 am Post subject:

Stupidest thread ever on LG?
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