No. He made a deal with Kupchak. Pay me big for 3 years. The team can secretly tank as long as I can chuck it as much as I want to accumulate total points. Then when Durant is a FA you can make a run at him and my salary comes off the books and I'll play one more year at a heavy discount and try to win a ship and get the scoring record in my last year.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Kobe Bryant addresses the idea that he should ask for a trade from winless <a href="https://twitter.com/Lakers">@Lakers</a>, his big start & more with Yahoo. <a href="http://t.co/DTQ2ah8Jzh">http://t.co/DTQ2ah8Jzh</a></p>— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/529124939891105792">November 3, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/1...lakers-rajon-rondo-boston-celtics-simply-that He's already started sussing out his options. I really do think it was a social lunch, but there's talk of a triumvirate of Kobe, Rondo and Carmelo in NYK. I can see that team being terrible for 60 games, amazing for the rest.
