What is Kobe Bryant if not on a team with a winning record? It's sort of depressing to think about, but he's basically just another aging NBA player wasting away on a terrible team while his teammates are teaching their girlfriends how to dunk. Each game he plays, he gets another day older and closer to retirement. But at least he's healthy.
After ESPN published an article revealing things that you should've already guessed about him, Los Angeles opened the season 1-9 under Bryant's slinging and bricking. Now, three wins with Swaggy P later, the Nick Young Effect seems to be hitting the L.A. like the lake effect hit Buffalo. Maybe the Lakers don't need Bryant. Maybe the will to win was inside them all along, and they just needed a lighter mood to bring it out. We're here today to play out a situation in which the Lakers and Kobe finally split ways. Will any of this happen? Probably not. But why not dream? Take a look at these 15 ESPN Trade-Machine-Approved Deals for Kobe Bryant, and imagine a completely different NBA landscape.