I just replied "Basketball reasons" to another accurate assessment we are now in full tank mode and makes the only sense left to do with Kobe's torn rotator cuff. The term to this day reminds of the irreparable harm done to the Lakers' future by David Stern.
But if Shaq vs Kobe was drama and strife and a media circus with brilliant manager of egos, Phil Jackson at the helm, how would Paul, Howard, Kobe still his dominant self and Mike Brown to manage that locker room have played out? Not to mention his X's and O's and "All Day Every Day" coaching style.
We all assumed Dwight was coming with Paul here. If not by trade right away, as a free agent that summer. He wanted to play with Paul. I think he would have done the same things in the locker room, especially feeling himself and CP3 to be the Lakers future and Kobe being in the way as the entrenched alpha dog. Popcorn time and not fun with Brown who couldn't even handle young LBJ. He gets fired, then what? Maybe PJ for...
