Kobe Bryant Whining About the Hornets, 18 Years Later

[BusSport]

18 years later, Kobe Bryant is still whining about the Hornets, first on Twitter:

[ame]http://twitter.com/kobebryant/statuses/484037007833051136[/ame]

On this day 18yrs ago the hornets told me right after they drafted me that they had no use for me and were going to trade me #thanku #lakers

and then on Instagram, captioning the picture below with:

On this day 18yrs ago the hornets told me right after they drafted me that they had no use for me and were going to trade me. #thanku #Believe #usmnt #lakers#jwest #drbuss #letsGo #USA

Except...Kobe was the one who demanded the trade in the first place, the one who refused to play anywhere but Los Angeles:

Bryant foreshadowed his gall. In 1996, Bryant, a teenager exiting high school for the N.B.A., was not the first pick, but he exuded self-importance when he refused to play anywhere but Hollywood.

With the 13th selection, with a deal to trade Bryant to Los Angeles in pocket, Charlotte chose him. But there was a point where it looked as if the Lakers’ Vlade Divac would retire rather than take part in a trade that would send him to Charlotte for Bryant.

Couldn’t Bryant be a Hornet? Could he grow to love Southern sweet tea?

“That is an impossibility,” Bryant’s agent, Arn Tellem, said at the time. “There are no ifs. It would not happen. He is going to be a Laker, and that’s the only team he’s playing for.”

 

[Heatles84]

Who cares?

 

[Shanemansj13]

F U Kobe!

 

[True Lakers Fan]

So now the Kobe is not supposed to talk about the past without getting accused of "whining"?


This thread is stupid

 

[Lakers+USC=#1]

Im telling Sman on you. You in troubleeeeeeeeeee!

 

[Shanemansj13]

He is whining about something he demanded.

He is a stupid dickface.

 

[Inimical]

At this point its all "Meh".

 

[Triplexxx23]

Kobe just acts like a bitch sometimes.... Nothing new here. Just who he is ...

 

[thunderc]

He is whining about something he demanded.

He is a stupid dickface.

Bingo, that is exactly what he did and the league is worst for allowing him to do so.

 

[Shaqdaddy11]

Where exactly does it say he would "refuse to play for any other team"?!?

 

[Shoveyjoe]

Oh Kobe...picking where he wants to play, he must have not wanted competition.

 

[hockey878]

Where exactly does it say he would "refuse to play for any other team"?!?

Did you read the last quote in the first post?

 

[Shaqdaddy11]

If players actually got to pick where they played why the hell would anyone play in cleveland or phoenix?

 

[Shaqdaddy11]

Did you read the last quote in the first post?

Again, where does it say he refused?

There's a difference between wanting to play for a championship contender and a bottom feeder. But he never demanded a trade or refused to play for another team prior to the draft.

 

[fordman84]

So now the Kobe is not supposed to talk about the past without getting accused of "whining"?


This thread is stupid

He is trying to reframe history from the truth that he said he wouldn't play for anyone except the Lakers by turning it into "Hornets told me they had no use for me".

Just bitch-Kobe being himself.

And 99% of threads on the internet are stupid.

 

[Triplexxx23]

He is trying to reframe history from the truth that he said he wouldn't play for anyone except the Lakers by turning it into "Hornets told me they had no use for me".

Just bitch-Kobe being himself.

And 99% of threads on the internet are stupid.

 

[wlk3]

Again, where does it say he refused?

There's a difference between wanting to play for a championship contender and a bottom feeder. But he never demanded a trade or refused to play for another team prior to the draft.

It doesn't... And that shitty article trashes Zach Randolph while calling Oden the new Duncan and shits on Kobe saying Kobe was once again demanding to be traded... He demanded the FO to do its job and got 2 rings for doing it... what a jerk...

 

[Black Adam]

It doesn't... And that shitty article trashes Zach Randolph while calling Oden the new Duncan and shits on Kobe saying Kobe was once again demanding to be traded... He demanded the FO to do its job and got 2 rings for doing it... what a jerk...

this is really all it boiled down to...whether anyone agrees or not...

 

[hockey878]

Again, where does it say he refused?

There's a difference between wanting to play for a championship contender and a bottom feeder. But he never demanded a trade or refused to play for another team prior to the draft.

“There are no ifs. It would not happen. He is going to be a Laker, and that’s the only team he’s playing for.”

His agent out right said it...

 

[Shaqdaddy11]

“There are no ifs. It would not happen. He is going to be a Laker, and that’s the only team he’s playing for.”

His agent out right said it...

Did we not pass 2nd grade reading?