CNNSI I'm sure Kobe will remain a Laker, given his solid supporting cast, but it appears there may be only one contender in the NBA.
The idea of even considering Kobe for this team makes me sick to my stomach. With this group, we're building the anti-Kobe team. With the Mile High Rapist, it's all about him. With this group of Blazers it's about the team.
It is really moot, because Kobe will never play for a small market team. He would lose more in his endorsement deals and would be out of the spot light. Not to mention the Lakers could offer him more. He might go to Europe, but he isn't coming to Portland.
Im telling you guys....he's gonna get traded for Lebron after this season. Sign and trade. Kobe and his ego gets to another decent team in the east. Lebron goes to a big market and doesnt have to take a pay cut. CLE still gets to have a superstar on their team....its gonna happen (hopefully) If Kobe wants the max its something like 6yr-150mil....fuck that..Hes not gonna (shouldnt) get that type of money when he is 36
I think Cleveland would have to throw a lot of salary in to match up, right? And I have a hard time believing that Kobe would agree to go to Cleveland... take LeBron from that team and it's shit. Ed O.
Maybe only the cap experts at Blazer management level can answer this, but how does Miles contract (assuming he plays 10 games) affect the cap space for this summer? I don't think it does because Blazers made the Zbo trade and explained it gives the Blazer cap flexibility for the summer of '09 . . . and that was while Miles was still part of the team. Players that could come off the books this summer(?): Raef Frye Webster Outlaw Blake Diogu Sergio
Yep, I'm certain her new house in Avon had nothing to do with it. That house is at least seven figures. I don't think the Cordillera pays that well.
You shouldn't believe everything you hear from the Blazers. Without Miles going away, we have to decline the options on several players and our exceptions to get appreciably below the salary cap.
If I was accused of raping someone and being prosecuted. . . whether I did it or not, I would try to buy the victim off.
I thought the figures were something like $15 million under the cap with Miles, $22 million under the cap without Miles. But, as maxiep notes, that's with Portland renouncing rights to Webster, Frye and Diogu. So, even if Miles gets added back to Portland's cap, if there's someone worth a max deal (starting at $15 million in the first year, it can go significantly higher over the lifetime of the deal with the standard per-year increases), Portland should be able to afford it, at the cost of non-core players Webster, Frye and Diogu.
None of us will ever know if Kobe did it or not. You have to appreciate that the girl was looking at a long criminal trial, going up against one of the most powerful men in America, with a huge legal team--aimed at tearing her and credibility down. If I where in her shoes, I'm not sure I wouldn't have done the same thing. If she put all the time in for the criminal trial and lost because Kobe had a great defense team, it would have destroyed her life. I'm sure she just wanted it to end quickly so she could get on with her life. Just because she bought someting nice with the money from the settlement doesn't mean she was in it for the money. Would it have been better if she put it in the bank and used it later? Why?
Did she not have intercourse with another man 24 hours after incident? At the hospital they found other males' DNA on her IIRC. Sorry if I'm a little skeptical. She wasn't the most stable person either according to her friends.
I'm certain that she was faced with one of two choices: 1. Continue to press the issue, have her personal and professional life trashed, end up blackballed from working in any of the ski resorts and still run the risk that he escapes justice. or 2. Take a check that is a multiple of what she could earn in two lifetimes. On the flip side, why would Kobe have offered the money if he were innocent?
And Kobe's personal life wasn't going to get trashed (there's also a gag order on this because of the civil deal, meaning no 20/20 interviews)? I asked some other questions too.
So only the morally virtuous can be raped? So what if she had sex with someone else? As for her "friends", she's pretty well known around Avon, and those people were outliers who wanted to grab onto a little bit of fame. By all accounts, she's a pretty nice, although naive, mountain girl. By the way you speak, you must spend a lot of time in the Vail Valley.
First, he's a public personality. This girl didn't ask for the spotlight. Second, he admitted to cheating on his wife. Third, his side pushed for the release of her personal details. In fact, the Valley was covered with people investigating this woman. It's not like she hired private eyes to investigate his life.
