Many consider Kobe Bryant the best basketball star currently playing. During the off season, he has expressed sentiments about leaving the Lakers. Now, finally, the Lakers are admitting that they are open to offers:

“…”I would certainly listen,” Buss told Lakers beat writers on Wednesday. “At any time, I think you have to do that with anybody. It’s just part of the game, to listen to somebody who has a dissatisfied player that you think is going to fit. You can’t keep too many loyalties. You’ve got to look at it as a business. He looks at it the same way I look at it.”"

link: Lakers owner Buss talked specific trade options with Bryant

It might take a combination of players and cash to obtain Kobe Bryant’s services. The huge question is ‘who would the Lakers find acceptable?’. The Laker fans would find very few scenarios acceptable. If (and when) the Lakers General Manager, Mitch Kupchak, announces a Kobe Bryant trade, he will have a unforgettable footnote in NBA lore. He will be the General Manager who traded away Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant. The Laker fans would remember that for a very long time…

Catherine Forsythe

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