Kobe isn’t an idiot.
Kobe isn’t a fan.
He knows who is the most talented player in the league is. If Lebron would have listened to my advice and signed with the Lakers, in my opinion he would have a ring and would have average a triple double last year.
He needs someone like Kobe, he has Wade, but Wade isn’t the same Wade as 2006 and I think Bron sees that now. He can party with Wade, but he could have been a GOD in LA.
Kobe also offered an answer that would be surprising to some when he was told he could pick any player in the league to join him to create the sport’s top duo. ‘It’s a tough question because I’ve played with a lot of great players being on the Olympic team,’ Bryant said. ‘I think that the player I would probably play with the most where the pieces would fit would be myself and LeBron [James], believe it or not, because he’s more of a facilitator and I’m more of a scorer. … He’s a modern version of what Oscar [Robertson] was. He just puts up genius numbers.’”
I have said many times that Lebron James could have been Oscar Robertson 2.0 the Beast Mode version, but when he went to Cleveland they tried to make him into Michael Jordan and while they had success, ultimately I thought that was a mistake.
In Miami, he plays more of a Big O type game, but it has been an adjustment.
Just remember, Lebron can get out of his Heat deal in 2014, around the same time Kobe will be in his final years as a Laker, just something to ponder.