Did it seem odd to anybody else besides me that Kobe Bryant got back on the Lakers bandwagon rather quick this media day. This is the same guy that was criticizing the Laker’s on national radio 5 times in one day, and could not think of playing for the Laker’s again.
What might really have been going on behind all of the silence and waiting for Laker fans this off-season is a lot of discussion. We heard what Kobe wanted, we heard that Phil Jackson admitted to pushing management to make some personnel changes that the team needed to win. Kobe may know what will happen in the next weeks following the start if training camp in Hawaii, he was all good to go and start playing basketball with the Laker’s he told the media this Monday at Laker’s media day.
Trading Shawn Marion for Lamar Odom might require more logistics than one may think. The Laker’s may be setting up an extension offer to Marion to lure him to Los Angeles and keep him there past this 2007-2008 NBA season, due to this season being his last year before he can opt-out of his current contract with the Phoenix Suns.
The Laker’s would likely unload a healing Lamar Odom to Phoenix and get a quick energetic Shawn Marion that will extend his contract that has one year remaining.
Kobe making such a 360 in his opinions shows that something is going to happen, why else would he come back after all he said back in the summer?
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