Kobe's web geeks sure know how to generate fresh hits to his website....and then reveal it was all a ruse. A reprint of an earlier blog. A tease to keep us guessing and wondering and, most of all, talking.
And now there's this mysterious and potentially damaging video....
Add it to all the media hype....
His flip-flopping messages and heart-felt appeals to the [Laker] masses....
Obama ought to hire him before Hillary does.
Just add them to the list of wanna-bes. Like the Knicks.
It's so tantalizing for Isiah Thomas. Just the possibility of being in the running for one of the league's best players. Mr. No. 1 selling jersey.
Read the most recent situation of this epic in Ken Berger's NBA column here
- pause for thought -
What would he wear with the Knicks? As my man Berger asked me this morning, would they rip Bill Bradley's No. 24 right off the Garden ceiling? Would he go back to No. 8, a digit less heralded, but still worn by the capable likes of Latrell Sprewell, Walt Bellamy and Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton?
- end of thought -
Until the Lakers officially begin taking offers for Jellybean Junior, speculation and conjecture will dominate the airwaves and the blogsphere and the newsprint. In the meantime, what do we have here? The Boston Herald confirming that the Celtics have had preliminary talks -- former Celtic teammates Danny Ainge and Kevin McHale, mind you -- with the Timberwolves regarding Kevin Garnett.
Somebody poke Isiah. Can't be daydreaming about Kobe when reality has Garnett as officially up for sale and potentially headed to a team in your division.
If you're a Knicks fan, the Kobe stuff is exciting. But it also has to make you wonder: Would Isiah opt to not get involved in KG talks or even Rashard Lewis talks if he thinks he has a shot at Kobe Bryant?
Would he step out of other potential deals to keep himself in the game for Kobe?
I've spoken with enough people to know the Knicks will very much focus on the Kobe situation all summer. No matter what you hear about the Knicks not being among Kobe's Fav-Five (he should do a commercial for T-Mobile with Isiah and other GMs...very slick marketing idea), Kobe would come to New York. But he'd also go to a few other places that might have better deals to offer.
So what do you do if you're Isiah? Go for a potentially sure thing - such as Lewis or Rasheed Wallace or possibly KG - and give up assets you might have used to get Kobe? Or do you hang onto what you have and wait out the Kobe situation, with the risk you might come away with nothing?
Me? I'd wait it out.
But I wouldn't let him wear Bradley's number.
Comments (10)
Here is what the Knicks should do - 3 way trade with LA Lakers and Minn TWolves:
to LA - Eddy Curry, Jamal Crawford and Rashad McCants
to TWolves - Channing Frye, Nate Robinson, Shephon Marbury and Maurice Evans
to NYK - Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett
the Knicks starting 5 would be Randolph Morris, Kevin Garnett, David Lee, Kobe Bryant and Mardy Collins
Now I know this is highly unlikely but the pieces fit and the salaries fit.
why would you even waste your time thinking of that, and posting it? the knicks have nothing to offer the wolves or the lakers for garnett or kobe. No one wants marbury. Our young players are decent but none of them have star potential. The knicks are not going to get Kobe Bryant unless Kobe forces the lakers to trade him here and only here, which probably will not happen. It is highly likely that the knicks will just tweak the roster alittle bit. Get Nate Robinson out of here, and see if anyone would be stupid enough to take Jerome James or Jared Jeffries. Of 30 teams in the NBA the knicks can probably offer the worst package in the league for Kobe. This is our team, except it.
Kubchak once traded Shaq for Odom, Butler, Grant and Jordan Farmar. He then traded Butler for Kwame. Hopefully he is this stupid again.
What the Knicks should really do is trade for Lewis AND 'Sheed (who is available on the cheap). We'd have a line-up of Curry, Sheed, Lewis, Steph, and Mardy. Pretty unselfish, team-oriented ball. We'd be a winner.
The Knicks need to make a serious move and Kobe Bryant is the best player available. The only player other than Bryant that could generate such a buzz is LeBron James. If they can get the premiere superstar dunkdelic-swingman in basketball then the boys at MSG better find a way to work out this trade.
The Knicks need to make a serious move and Kobe Bryant is the best player available. The only player other than Bryant that could generate such a buzz is LeBron James. If they can get the premiere superstar dunkdelic-swingman in basketball then the boys at MSG better find a way to work out this trade.
Duncan and Shaq have been the center piece of the team that won 8 of the last 9 NBA championships. You don't build a team around a
guard. Even one as good as Kobe. Besides, the first time Curry's stats were better than his, he would want Curry traded.
Remember, Thomas has never been shy about giving away draft picks. My feeling is Kobe after seeing Garnett go to the Celtics wants more than ever to be a Knick. He'll hold out and force a trade. If anyone can put together a dangerously large package for a superstar Thomas can..
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