Kobe Bryant announces retirement

Those back-to-back Rockets teams were incredible to watch. My favorite non-Showtime teams.

 

Kobe was 2/15 scoring, 3 rebounds, 1 assist against the Pistons 12/6. Trolling the crap out of reality.

 

I wonder of playing Kobe this much is the Lakers way of tanking. They will suck anyway. Don't they owe Philly their first round draft pick if they finish outside the bottom three. Let Kobe deflect most of the criticism of how bad the team is and keep the pick?

Next year they can add the pick and use Kobe's salary to bring in someone as a free agent and get started on the road back.

 

Bob Keisser, Hot Takez master.

 

There's been wide speculation that this is a backdoor tanking attempt by the Lakers, but honestly, that seems like it's giving them wayyyy too much credit. Most of their moves since the 2010 title haven't been so hot.

 

Was just going to say... Who cares what Bob Keisser thinks about Kobe?

The "role model" but really put it over the top.

 

He has been a columnist in LA for 35-40 years.

 

Substitute "mentor" for role model. I googled "kobe mentor lakers" and it got 285,000 hits.

Keisser isn't out of line to suggest that.

 

And completely out of touch for at least the last 10.

 

Perhaps. Just wasn't sure if others knew he'd been a long-timer.

 

Kobe's wife has put on a few pounds. I like a woman with curves.