Would you trade Matthews and Hickson for Kobe?

[KingSpeed]

Serious question.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Yes.

{Poasted via palm pilot}

 

[Natebishop3]

Nope.

1) He's old

2) He wouldn't be happy here.

3) We need more depth, not less.

 

[julius]

It would take far more salary than 10 million

 

[Mediocre Man]

In like two seconds.

1. He is still a top 10 player in the league
2. His contract status is better than Matthews

 

[tlongII]

Hell no. Kobe sucks now.

 

[tlongII]

And LOL @ still a top 10 player.

 

[Mediocre Man]

And LOL @ still a top 10 player.

He is declining, but he is still 4th in the league in scoring with a PER of 22.53. He is averaging 5.6 assists per game and shooting 46% from the field which is 4th among SG's. Not sure how he's not a top 10 player other than your own hatred towards him?

 

[KeepOnRollin]

12th in overall PER. You could make a case that he is only 11th-12th best player but that is close enough to still being top 10.

 

[Natebishop3]

The key is, he's older than fuck.

 

[Wheels]

yes a million times out of a million. Our rebounding would be even worse, but I still would

 

[mook]

He's owed $30mil next year. Could we even make the salaries work without giving up Batum or Aldridge?

Anyway, yeah I'd do it for the package listed if it's possible and roll the dice on him wanting to re-sign here.

 

[Natebishop3]

What does acquiring an old Kobe Bryant achieve for this team? I would have been in favor of it a few years ago when we still had a playoff team, but adding him to a team that has no bench whatsoever would not get us over the hump. Do you think Kobe wants to spend his last couple years of his career on a middle-of-the-pack team? This team needs depth in the worst possible way.

Now, if Kobe was willing to take a Ray Allen kind of role that would be one thing, but his ego is far too big to swallow his pride in that way.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Serious question.

Yeah, if you're drunk.

 

[HailBlazers]

Or high, Kobe would never play here

 

[MARIS61]

I would only trade for the anal-rapist in order to permanently bench him from the game.

 

[BlazerWookee]

I wouldn't trade genital herpes for K*be.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

FUCK NO. He's the Anti-Wes.

 

[Mediocre Man]

FUCK NO. He's the Anti-Wes.

You mean good?

 

[magnifier661]

It's pretty aparent that there are more Kobe haters than anything on this board. We are all Blazer fans and can't stand to see any Laker have any glory. With that said, I voted no for a few reasons.

1.) Kobe is old. Remember he's been in the league since 1995. That's 18 + years man.
2.) Kobe is selfish. He would destroy any chemistry this team has.
3.) Kobe is expensive. We would need to trade Aldridge, Batum and Matthews to even be at the level of the trade. Kobe's contract is untradeable with the new CBA.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I vote no, and for reasons completely unrelated to basketball.

As a Minnesota Vikings fan, the most joyless year of my fandom was when Brett Favre quarterbacked my team to a 12-4 record and to the NFC championship game. Yes, I want my team to succeed, but if I don't like the players, then it's worthless to me.

 

[e_blazer]

I vote no. Ignoring personal issues and looking at it strictly from a basketball standpoint, Kobe's said that he only intends to play for a couple of years. If the Blazers were in a position where they just needed one piece to truly contend for a title, maybe you rent Kobe to make that push. As it is, to make salaries match, it would take more players than the Blazers could stand to part with and Kobe wouldn't be enough to put the team in a contending mode.

 

[BigGameDamian]

Kobe is still the closest player to Jordan in today's game.

 

[magnifier661]

Kobe is still the closest player to Jordan in today's game.

That's not true. LJ is the closest thing to Jordan. Kobe is a wannabe Jordan. Kobe has a career per of 24.5; while Jordan has a career per of 29.5. LJ has a career per very close of 27.2.

 

[mook]

Kobe is the closest in terms of elite shooting guard to Jordan. But yeah, in terms of utterly dominant players I've watched since the mid-90's, I'd put the list at Jordan, Shaq and then LeBron.

Kobe is somewhere in the next tier with Hakeem, Duncan, Malone....

 

[Run BJM]

Pretty absurd that most of you wouldn't trade two fringe starters for a future HOF player and top 10 player in the league. Ok maybe hes only top 12-13 if you're a PER nuthugger, but even so why wouldn't you trade two run of the mill players for a top 15 player?

Yeah, he probably wouldn't be very happy playing in Portland, and there's concern with how he'd fit with Dame/LMA. But it instantly ups your franchise's profile exponentially. You add a marketing machine and superstar, a guy everyone in the league respects, and to boot you've even got a fucking money core of Damian, Kobe, Batum, and Aldridge. You could draw some vets on the cheap who are ring-chasing. FAs will want to play for Portland. The whole image of the team would change, not to mention if would be a major upgrade in talent.

 

[HailBlazers]

Kobe will retire a Faker, it's absurd to think otherwise.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Kobe will retire a Faker, it's absurd to think otherwise.

I don't know about absurd

Who was the last HOFer inducted that only played for one team? Stockton, maybe? Is Reggie Miller in the HOF yet? I mean he certainly could retire a L*ker, and probably will, but I'm not sure it would be absurd if he didn't

 

[BlazerWookee]

Pretty absurd that most of you wouldn't trade two fringe starters for a future HOF player and top 10 player in the league. Ok maybe hes only top 12-13 if you're a PER nuthugger, but even so why wouldn't you trade two run of the mill players for a top 15 player?

Yeah, he probably wouldn't be very happy playing in Portland, and there's concern with how he'd fit with Dame/LMA. But it instantly ups your franchise's profile exponentially. You add a marketing machine and superstar, a guy everyone in the league respects, and to boot you've even got a fucking money core of Damian, Kobe, Batum, and Aldridge. You could draw some vets on the cheap who are ring-chasing. FAs will want to play for Portland. The whole image of the team would change, not to mention if would be a major upgrade in talent.

I don't care if he's got ten years of MVP-quality play left in him. He's a scumbag, and I don't want him playing for my team. I wouldn't trade Darius Miles for K*be Bryant, and if you know me and my opinion of Miles from that period, you'll know just how reprehensible a human being I find Bryant.

 

[mook]

Kobe will retire a Faker, it's absurd to think otherwise.

Anymore it seems like older stars, if they have anything left in the tank, usually go on to chase rings on cheap contracts with contenders. Payton, Karl Malone, Ray Allen, Garnett, Shaq....I think playing your whole career on one team has gone the way of saving yourself for marriage. Sure, it sounds noble and all, but in the end you want to score some trophies a lot more than you want to be known as That Person.