Phil returning to the Lakers
Axtell
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News conference at 5pm eastern....should be interesting to see what kind of friction between him and Kobe.
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His legacy will take a hit with this.
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Yea...nuts all the way to the bank. He'll get along fine with "Sir" Kobe.
<< <i>He's nuts - if he goes back there. That team seems hopeless, and built around a supremely selfish player. He'd be better off staying retired, or at least taking on a program like Cleveland (where he has LeBron and some legit young talent).
His legacy will take a hit with this. >>
Cleveland has just as many bums as the Lakers do. With the Lakers you get Kobe arguabley one of the best players in the league. You get Odom who has shown flashes of greatness where in cleveland you would get Gooden as your 2nd option. Odom is a close to the type of player that Pippen was. Lakers just need to get 2 good role players and they will contend again. Lakers are a 6th seed with Phil at the helms.
On one hand, he's always heard 'well for your 9 rings, you've had 2 of the best players of all time on both sets of teams', which, while true, great players don't guarantee championships.
On the other hand, when he comes back with perhaps the intention of proving he can win with just one very good player, he gets called out as 'money hungry' and people saying he's going to tarnish his legacy.
Seems he can't win either way.