Sports franchises go through ups and downs — but for Laker haters, the 2013-2014 season will likely go down as one of the greatest Laker campaigns of all time.
After signing Kobe Bryant to a huge off-season contract extension, watching injuries restrict Kobe to only six games this season, then seeing a CBA-caliber Lakers lineup shamble to a 22-45 record near the bottom of the NBA, there’s currently a fiasco of circus-level proportions swirling around one of the league’s most storied franchises.
Heap the funk of the Phil Jackson-Knicks marriage on this and…well, all is not well in Lakerland.
And even though he made a cool $172,051 PER MINUTE for his on-court production this season, the ultra- competitive Bryant is not so quietly seething on the Laker bench.
During a radio interview on Wednesday’s “Dan Patrick Show” later reported on Crave sports site NESN, Kobe let the crankiness get to him when he seemed to genuinely agree that President Barack Obama could make and play for the current Lakers team.
Now, let’s consider this — that means Kobe thinks a 52-year-old man who’s never been a professional athlete is good enough to beat out a current Laker, wear the purple-and-gold and play against NBA talent.
“I’m not dissing the current roster that we have,” Bryant told Patrick. “It’s more a sign of respect for the skill that the president possesses.
Yeah…right.
We’ll go ahead and give Kobe the benefit of the doubt that between showing respect for a sitting President and his already scorching hot hatred for what’s happening right now with his team, he doesn’t really think Obama could bang bodies with the likes of Lebron James and Kevin Durant night after night.
But if you think his comments AREN’T dissing the Lakers’ current roster (as well as the men behind that roster — Lakers VP Jim Buss, GM Mitch Kupchak and coach Mike D’Antoni), I’ve got a bridge to sell ya…
