Kobe Reiterates "Selfish" Desire To Contend

[jonathanlambert33]

Jimmy (executive vice president of player personnel Jim Buss) and I actually talked after that and its important for us to have that conversation because this is their team, its been in their family for years and we all know what the track record is for that, but Ive also been part of this franchise since I was 17 years old, Bryant told Rovell. I feel like I bleed purple and gold and I want to see this franchise be successful. I dont want to hear the comments of dissension between Jim and [Lakers president] Jeanie [Buss]. We need to figure this thing out. Were all moving in the same direction.

This organization is just not going to go [down], Bryant said. Its not going to take a nose dive. But I think we need to accelerate it a little bit for selfish reasons, because I want to win and I want to win next season. So, its kind of getting them going now as opposed to two years from now.

Bryant said his faith is as strong as ever in the Lakers ability to bounce back to contender status.

Extremely confident, Bryant said. That was one of my concerns (when he re-signed) and they assured me, This is fair for you for everything youve done for the franchise and will continue to do while being able to construct a team that is going to contend for a championship here over the next couple of years.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10664481/kobe-bryant-los-angeles-lakers-met-team-front-office-faith-la-return-contender-status

 

[elcheato]

Drafting Doug McDermott and overspending on free agents this off-season, I can see it now

 

[elcheato]

I do like McDermott tho

 

[Mexi]

Kobe got that 48M tho

 

[playmaker7]

Kobe isn't the GM, it's going to take more than his desire to put together a good team to win in LA.
 
They're all going to need to sit down and discuss WTF is the plan for 2014-2015