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EducatedBet…Is He Really Happy!

Kobe Bryant made clear Monday what’s been, at the very least, a bit ambiguous for nearly a year: He “absolutely” wants to stay with the Lakers and is open to finishing his career with them.

This, after questioning the direction of the franchise during the offseason and criticizing the job performance of general manager Mitch Kupchak. Please dont tell me we are going to have to start this again…today he wants to be a Laker for his career, tomorrow he will want out and hate everyone in the organization. I hope he is sincere about staying because I dont want to listen to this again!

Bryant acknowledged he wouldn’t have imagined things would have turned out this way late last May, when he publicly called the Lakers’ front office a mess and demanded a trade, feeling he had been misled when he signed a seven-year, $136.4 million contract in July 2004. The Lakers haven’t won a playoff series since. I have a feeling that they will win this series very easily. So they will end that streak.

The front office of the Lakers did an outstanding job this season, making trades and signing free agents to give Kobe a great great team that can go far in the playoffs. I kinda understand Kobe’s frustration with the team because they were horrible without Shaq and he wanted to win now…but sometimes it takes time! And that is most certainly the case in LA…they waited on some of there draft picks to develop and come up big and they did…they also made some very big trades to balance out there defense a bit and that has worked out nicely. But is this the year they get there without Shaq…I dont think so!

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