Per AM 570 in Los Angeles: Kobe to Dallas

[The30YardSlant]

For Terry, Howard, and 2 first rounders. A "highly credible" source says Kobe has cleaned out his locker and the deal will be announced sometime this week. They discussed the rumor on the ticket in Dallas as well, apparently it has legs.

[Danny White]

For Terry, Howard, and 2 first rounders. A "highly credible" source says Kobe has cleaned out his locker and the deal will be announced sometime this week. They discussed the rumor on the ticket in Dallas as well, apparently it has legs.

Wow... lock up your daughters!

Do you guys have anything left now outside of Hasslehoff?

[Danny White]

For Terry, Howard, and 2 first rounders. A "highly credible" source says Kobe has cleaned out his locker and the deal will be announced sometime this week. They discussed the rumor on the ticket in Dallas as well, apparently it has legs.

Looks like Kobe's on his way out... heard the Bulls might be in on it as well, though.

So HH31, you're the Mavs' GM, do you make the deal? I assume the answer's yes.

[The30YardSlant]

Looks like Kobe's on his way out... heard the Bulls might be in on it as well, though.

So HH31, you're the Mavs' GM, do you make the deal? I assume the answer's yes.

You have to. Kobe + Dirk + Stack = Unguardable

[Danny White]

This was on TrueHoop today... nothing about Dallas, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-28-184/Could-Kobe-Bryant-Really-Be-Traded-.html



My hunch is that Kobe's cleaned out his locker because he wants to try to force Buss' hand.

I think the Dallas part of the speculation comes from the Dallas media.

[MC KAos]

god i hope the mavs get kobe, it would be so amazing to make kobe cry in the playoffs again!

[Mavs Man]

If this is true - crap.

But I'll believe it when I see it.

[Mavs Man]

Someone on the DMN blog suggested if GM they would trade Terry, Howard and Devin Harris for Kobe and have Avery man the starting PG spot.

:laugh2:

Of course, he was joking.

[Heisenberg]

This would be most interesting if it turns out to be true. Kobe and Dirk on the court at the same time? Um...I don't care what team you are, that's a tough tough matchup.

[ABQCOWBOY]

ESPN reported this morning that Kobe did not clean out his locker. He just cleaned his locker. According to ESPN, the locker thing was never true. Just the press running wild with unconfirmed rumor. I guess we'll see who's telling the truth.

[Yeagermeister]

You have to. Kobe + Dirk + Stack = Unguardable

Too bad Dirk and Stack will never get the ball once Kobe has it. :laugh2:

[Danny White]

Too bad Dirk and Stack will never get the ball once Kobe has it. :laugh2:

:fact:

[Mavs Man]

:fact:

Reminds me of that NFL Talking Follies video:

"You can only have ONE BALL!!"

[03EBZ06]

ESPN reported this morning that Kobe did not clean out his locker. He just cleaned his locker. According to ESPN, the locker thing was never true. Just the press running wild with unconfirmed rumor. I guess we'll see who's telling the truth.
I'm a huge Lakers fan and I have to say, this is a friggin mess. Jerry Buss and Kobe need to sit down for one last time and decide what they hell they are doing instead of going back and forth through the media.

Personally, I don't care if Kobe leaves as long as the team gets equitable trade because Kobe's salary is choking the Lakers ability to get other FAs. Just sick of the drama these two are creating.

[wesleyc288]

Oh God please let this be true......
C-Diop
PF-Dirk
SF-Kobe
SG-Stack
PG-Harris

Bench
Eddie Jones
D George
Dampier
M.Ager


UNSTOPABLE

[Danny White]

Oh God please let this be true......
C-Diop
PF-Dirk
SF-Kobe
SG-Stack
PG-Harris

Bench
Eddie Jones
D George
Dampier
M.Ager


UNSTOPABLE

:lmao2:

I mean, after last year, you're really going to say "unstoppable"?

[wesleyc288]

:lmao2:

I mean, after last year, you're really going to say "unstoppable"?


Well actually i thought that our team was very beatable last season.....i bet my friend 200.00 that the spurs would beat us in the western conference finals if we got that far......reason being, i have always been a firm believer that we will never win the championship with dirk as our "go to guy/leader" Last years team proved that.

I think that this roster (if this turns out to be true) is far better than last years roster.....and i think you would have to be a fool to argue otherwise.


Maybe not unstoppable, but this would be as good if not better than all of the teams in the NBA.....including your Spurs. and I have never said that in the past.

[Danny White]

Well actually i thought that our team was very beatable last season.....i bet my friend 200.00 that the spurs would beat us in the western conference finals if we got that far......reason being, i have always been a firm believer that we will never win the championship with dirk as our "go to guy/leader" Last years team proved that.

I think that this roster (if this turns out to be true) is far better than last years roster.....and i think you would have to be a fool to argue otherwise.


Maybe not unstoppable, but this would be as good if not better than all of the teams in the NBA.....including your Spurs. and I have never said that in the past.

You may have more talent... not sure about being a better "team" though.

[JSP21]

I'm just hoping one morning I wake up and all over ESPN is the "BREAKING NEWS" alert telling us that Kobe was traded to Dallas for Jet Terry, Josh Howard, Keith Van Horn's expiring contract, and a First Rounder. I love Josh Howard, but man, Kobe is.....Kobe.

There's no way I get rid of both Howard and Harris. It has to be either one. And personally, I love Harris' game. So I'd rather keep him.

[Mavs Man]

:lmao2:

I mean, after last year, you're really going to say "unstoppable"?

What hurts more than anything as a Mavs fan is that they had a championship-caliber if not unstoppable team going into the 2006 Finals along with a franchise player who had made The Leap in Dirk. And then they came a handful of minutes away from being 3-0 in the Finals and then CRASH. It was like watching a movie where the main character you've been rooting for the whole time gets to the climax of the movie where as you've seen time and again he's supposed to stand up for the cause and get the girl and save the world and all that, but instead he chickens out and gets run out of town and the bad guy gets the girl and then BAM the credits roll. What the crap!!

[Danny White]

What hurts more than anything as a Mavs fan is that they had a championship-caliber if not unstoppable team going into the 2006 Finals along with a franchise player who had made The Leap in Dirk. And then they came a handful of minutes away from being 3-0 in the Finals and then CRASH. It was like watching a movie where the main character you've been rooting for the whole time gets to the climax of the movie where as you've seen time and again he's supposed to stand up for the cause and get the girl and save the world and all that, but instead he chickens out and gets run out of town and the bad guy gets the girl and then BAM the credits roll. What the crap!!
Hopefully a Cowboys Super Bowl this year can help ease your pain! :)

[MC KAos]

You may have more talent... not sure about being a better "team" though.

ya ask D'antoni about that...

"we have more talent than they do, but we just cant beat them for some reason" hmmm i wonder why??? maybe cuz your getting powned by pop, the best coach in the league? ps spurs are the best team in the league, no trade will change that. now whether supreme talent can beat supreme team is another story all toguether.

[Mavs Man]

Hopefully a Cowboys Super Bowl this year can help ease your pain! :)

That would be awesome. It certainly won't be the Stars or Rangers doing it.

Luckily, I'm still riding the 2006 Rose Bowl wave so it's not all bad.

[jterrell]

I heard this rumor as well and it does have some backing now in high places.

Marc Stein(ESPN) suggested it will happen.

Kobe has placed Dallas at the top of the list because they can win with him and Dirk while still offering the Lakers some serious compensation.

Kobe has a no trade clause and can opt out in 2 years so the Lakers' hand is forced.
Not to mention they aren't winning with the current roster anyway.


As Dallas GM I jump all over the deal.

Josh, Jet, KVH expiring contract, 2 firsts.

Dallas with Kobe as the go to guy down the stretch and on ball defender becomes easily the odds on favorite.

Dirk will still get his 20+ and double digit boards. He did so with both Fin and Nash here. He doesn't need the offense running through him to score. Kobe driving in drawing double teams then kicking to Dirk is going to lead to a lot of friggin points.

Dirk's favorite player was Scottie Pippen. Now he gets to fill that role if this deal does go down.

[wesleyc288]

where did you hear that mark stein was backing it......link?

[03EBZ06]

KVH sucks so Lakers would be stupid to take him. If I was Lakers GM, I wouldn't take Howard, Jet, and scrub KVH for Kobe, noway. I would demand Dirk to be included in the trade.

[Ren]

I'll believe this when i see it

as a mavs fan i've learned over the past few years not to get my hopes up about anything mavs anymore :(

[Mavs Man]

KVH sucks so Lakers would be stupid to take him. If I was Lakers GM, I wouldn't take Howard, Jet, and scrub KVH for Kobe, noway. I would demand Dirk to be included in the trade.

It would be The Expiring Contract of KVH - not KVH. There's a difference. The value is not in the player but in payroll, cap space, and trade value.

See previous seasons involving The Expiring Contract of PJ Brown, The Expiring Contract of Penny Hardaway, etc.

[Mavs Man]

I'll believe this when i see it

as a mavs fan i've learned over the past few years not to get my hopes up about anything mavs anymore :(

I'm the one with a bag over my head, but I cannot say I can't get my hopes up for my team. I call it more 'guarded optimism', if that's any difference. I don't talk trash or brag about season records. I question statistics that predict future championships. But whenever they do win one, and I still believe that will happen with this team, I will appreciate that moment more than I would have two years ago.