What "old school" superstar players have ever willingly gone out on a lottery team with an inept front office?
That's not old school.. That's someone with no options....
Not to say Kobe doesn't deserve his deal, but he brought that on himself somewhat. Of course 99.9% of the responsibility falls on the shoulders of the comedy hour that is the Lakers front office but Kobe still signed the deal and I doubt he had no idea about the implications of that cap number.
So he gon sleep in the bed he made. Maybe he doesn't retire after this contract is up, who knows?







