<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Ok here we go.......... Around the end of December it became clear that Rudy T was suffering severe burnout. Feelers were put out to the agent of Phillip (Tod Musberger) around this time. Phillip was very bored and had decided around middle of Dec. that he wanted to coach in the NBA again. He and Jeanie discussed this. When Rudy T quit things really started to heat up between the Lakers and Phillip. He thought about taking over the Lakers soon after Rudy quit but decided against it out of loyalty to Hamblen. Despite what Phil says publicly he feels this Lakers team has a chance to be the New Bulls 91-93 version. They have a blueprint all planned and ready to go and have roster moves already in mind. Now back to the story..... Phillp calls Kobe to see where his mind is. Kobe tells him that the media is killing him and "People run there mouth too much" This is when Rick Bucher said that Phillip and Kobe would meet. Kobe relayed the message to Phillip and was like "see how is this stuff getting out who is talking?" From that point on the Lakers completely shut off the media. Anybody caught leaking stuff would be punished. The deal has been done since late April. Both sides agreed officially on a contract and both sides were happy. Phillip and Mitchell meet and agree to what Kind of team they wanna build around Kobe with Long athletes who can defend. Everything is smooth sailing and the Lakers brass meet after Phillip and Kobe talk again. They discuss the soap opera aspect and people runnin there mouths causing static in the media ect. Neither Kobe, Phillip or anybody in the Laker org. want that stuff to happen again. This is where it gets funny. Emplay, daocho, Peter V. were right when they said a source from SFX was saying Phillip won't be coach and Kobe is trying to stop it. I would have fell for it also if the source I had wasn't actually in the room when Phillip and Buss agreed to a deal. This story was falsely planted to catch a mole or find out who has a Big Mouth. It worked. You know how you tell one person a rumor and by the time it gets around its a whole different story? Thats what happened. Now there you have it.</div> Reported by 'Lionel the Laker' at LG.net I'm glad the Lakers' have a blueprint now and the 1991-93 Bulls is a great one. The lineup consisted of the following players ... 1991-92 STARTERS - Jordan, Pippen, Grant, Armstrong, Cartwright 1991-92 BENCH - Paxson, King, Perdue, Hodges, Levingston, S. Williams, Hansen Later on in 1992-93 Trent Tucker replaced Hodges, Rodney McCray replaced Levingston, and Darrell Walker replaced Hansen
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Laker_fan:</div><div class="quote_post">What is SFX?</div> SFX is a sports agent company. One of their agents, Rob Pelinka, represents Kobe Bryant.
I still don't fully understand what happened, that transcript isn't clear enough. Could someone explain to me what happened?
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Laker_fan:</div><div class="quote_post">I still don't fully understand what happened, that transcript isn't clear enough. Could someone explain to me what happened?</div> * PJ has been Laker coach since April. * PJ & Kobe agreed that media = drama; no more mouthing off to the media about issues. * They started a rumor that PJ will NOT be coach to catch a mole that's leaking confidential information. * Lakers are remodeling after the '91-'92 Bulls.
