Kobe Bryant: I Was Joking about Europe
 Well, I guess it was much ado about nothing when it came to talk of Kobe Bryant signing a mega-money Euroleague deal. After reading rumours linking Kobe to Russia and LeBron James to Greece (which we at HoopsVibe covered in detail), many believed there was a real chance that one of the NBA's big names could make the unprecedented leap from the league to overseas even with the prospect of a maximum contract on the table at home. Apparently, we were running our mouths for nothing as Kobe has now revealed that any talk of leaving the country for a tax-free fifty million dollars was purely in jest. Somebody throws us this question about playing overseas. I don’t want him to answer it. He’s a young kid; I don’t want him to take the controversial stuff. I said, ‘Well, if a team throws us $50 million, then we’ll all go.’ …It’s just something that was a joke for us, and people took it and ran with it or whatever. That’s fine. Everybody needs to banter about something. - Kobe Bryant He ain't lying. In the post-Olympics, pre-anything-else period in the dead of the summer, such a story was more than enough to get the blogosphere buzzing. Turns out it was nothing but hot air. Our bad. Move along. |
Good point, Milan. While people may forget about Childress while he's abroad, Kobe will bring the cameras with him. With his conditioning being as good as it is, there's nothing besides injury which would stop him from returning to stardom in the NBA at thirty-three or so. With the shorter Euroleague season, he might even come back in better shape than before, particularly if he takes advantage of the longer summer by resting his legs and getting his pinky fixed.
I hate to tell you this, but I don't actually have a MySpace page! Either there's another C.Y. Ellis out there or someone's pretending to be me. If so, you can tell them they need better heroes in their life.