Kobe Bryant asks to be traded and also that Smush Parker stay 100 yards away from him at all times.

Citing the fact that Jerry Buss was responsible for breaking up the Shaq years in LA, that the Lakers are not serious about getting better, and that playing with Kwame Brown for two years was more then enough, Kobe Bryant has demanded a trade. 

“Promises made to make this team better have not been kept, so where does that leave me?”  Alleged Rapist Kobe Bryant told Stephen A. Smith on ESPN radio. 

The players that Kobe Bryant so desperately wanted according to espn.com: Carlos Boozer (Liar, Eskimo), Jason Kidd (Abused Wife, has giant headed child) and Ron Artest (Abused Wife, Criminally Insane ).  You see Kobe really likes to keep quality guys around him.  Sorry Kobe, but you adding one of those players would have cost you Odom and Bynum at least.  And if those trades had been made, you STILL couldn’t beat the Spurs. 

 So what is Kobe really mad about?  Well lets be honest, Kobe has been a villain of the NBA ever since Shaq left LA.  The rape investigation, the feud with Shaq, the NBA suspensions for cheap shots, have all left Bryant one of the most unlikable superstars in the game.  But through all of that he really believed that the Lakers would replenish the talent once Shaq left.  Kobe may have not shipped O’Neal out of town, Jerry Buss did apparently, but he didn’t exactly protest the move.  But Kobe thought the talent was coming, that he would be vilified, but he would be a champion.  Jordan was hated in a lot of places because he won, the Yankees were vilified because they won, Kobe saw being a villain as just part of winning. 

A couple years later and Kobe has to come out for the starting lineup and get booed AND pound fists with Smush Parker.  Its one thing to be hated, it’s another thing to be hated and lose.  That puts you in the company of superstars like….well Carlos Boozer, Jason Kidd and Ron Artest. 

Does Kobe have the right to demand to be traded?  Sure, many superstars have done it before him (A.I) and many will do it after him, it’s the nature of the beast.  But I doubt many people feel bad for his situation, even though he has had to deal with an idiotic front office, villains just don’t get sympathy.

Violent J

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