Not going to happen. He just wants someone on his team to be able to knock down an open shot.

Kobe is making between 20 and 25 mil a year the next 3 years I believe. You will have to match the money and talent, the Bulls have both. Heinrich is signed to a big deal and you can re-up Deng for a ton of dough. Trade both of them, the 9th pick and either Noccioni or Duhon. Bulls could then move Gordon to PG, Kobe at SG, Rashard lewis the Bulls will sign, Tyrus Thomas will start at PF next year with Ben Wallace in the middle. That team can compete for the title. All 4 of those players are better then anybody outside of Kobe on the Lakers.

Kobe is making between 20 and 25 mil a year the next 3 years I believe. You will have to match the money and talent, the Bulls have both. Heinrich is signed to a big deal and you can re-up Deng for a ton of dough. Trade both of them, the 9th pick and either Noccioni or Duhon. Bulls could then move Gordon to PG, Kobe at SG, Rashard lewis the Bulls will sign, Tyrus Thomas will start at PF next year with Ben Wallace in the middle. That team can compete for the title. All 4 of those players are better then anybody outside of Kobe on the Lakers.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

I would love to see him in a Bulls jersey.

...And I would love to see him in some sexy lingerie.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

I would love to see him in a Bulls jersey. Keep Kirk and let Ben go

Kobe is making between 20 and 25 mil a year the next 3 years I believe. You will have to match the money and talent, the Bulls have both. Heinrich is signed to a big deal and you can re-up Deng for a ton of dough. Trade both of them, the 9th pick and either Noccioni or Duhon. Bulls could then move Gordon to PG, Kobe at SG, Rashard lewis the Bulls will sign, Tyrus Thomas will start at PF next year with Ben Wallace in the middle. That team can compete for the title. All 4 of those players are better then anybody outside of Kobe on the Lakers.

Heinrich is signed to a big deal and you can re-up Deng for a ton of dough. Trade both of them, the 9th pick

Nas, what Mitch would or would not accept has nothing to do with the problem at hand, which is that outside of Wallace, we have no way of making the contracts work. At bare minimum, the deal would have to be Big Ben and another player. I threw out Gordon because A) he’s probably who the Lakers would want in return, and B) you’re not going to give Gordon a $50-$60 million dollar extension this summer and then move him back to the bench.

instead of changing teams, Kobe should first change his tampon!

Talk about loving drama, this whiny little biatch isn't content unless he is the center of attention. I want him nowhere near Chicago...

All of this Randolph/Gasol/Garnett stuff is not going to happen. Pax would have already done it when he had 2 large expirings, 2 years in a row.

I thought you were arguing a few months ago, around the trading deadline, that the Bulls would have a good shot at Garnett or O'Neal this offseason.

Have you given your selection for the #9 pick yet?

Who do the Lakers have with any trade value other than (perhaps) Bynum? Don't the Bulls have more bait?

Deal No. 2: Chicago trades Luol Deng, Ben Gordon, Victor Khryapa and the No. 9 pick for Kobe.

Additional notes: This deal works as long as the Bulls renounce P.J. Brown's rights; also, it means the Lakers would receive a mammoth (and appealing) trade exception in the deal.

Comments: This seems like the most natural home for Kobe -- it's a big city; they're a contender in the East; there's enough talent left after the deal to make a run, and even the MJ-Kobe symmetry works nicely -- as well as the best possible haul for the Lakers. The deal could work in a variety of ways: Instead of renouncing Brown's rights, the Bulls could include Andres Nocioni as a sign-and-trade (starting at around $5 million per) and renounce Mike Sweetney's rights instead of Brown's. If they wanted to get even more creative, they could make it Deng, Gordon, P.J. Brown (sign and trade -- one year, $10 million) and the No. 9 for Kobe. They could try to substitute Ty Thomas and a future No. 1 for Deng. Etc., etc., etc.

Two big obstacles here:

(A) Would the Bulls ever give up Deng? The Lakers would have to get him back in a Kobe deal, right? I feel like he's become slightly overrated over the past season -- he's definitely a potential All-Star; he definitely could become the second-best player on a championship-caliber team, but I don't see him getting much better than he is right now. Do you ever see him scoring 27-28 a game? Do you ever see him being the crunch-time scorer on a great team? If you could land Kobe and keep Kirk Hinrich, Ben Wallace, Ty Thomas, Chris Duhon and Thabo Sefolosha, then sign one more veteran to help them out, that's a potential 2008 title team. Isn't the whole point to win a title?

(B) Would John Paxson ever roll the dice with a mega-deal for someone like Kobe? He seems to be happier stockpiling young assets and waiting for one of these other teams to offer him the likes of KG or Jermaine O'Neal for 30 cents on the dollar. By making a Kobe deal, Paxson would be shoving his chips to the middle of the table ... something he's been completely unwilling to do. We will see.