The soon-to-be-37-year-old Lakers guard isn’t saying whether he’ll hang it up after the 2015-16 season, but as he told Yahoo Sports’ Marc Spears, Bryant “absolutely” believes the team’s revamped roster has a chance to make the playoffs.
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Spears started the interview with Bryant by asking about Kupchak’s comments and if he is retiring after this year: “We haven’t set anything in stone and I’ve talked about it before. Either I like playing the game and going through this process or I don’t”, he said. “But could this be the last?” Bryant said of Massachusetts, “We just hit it off”, according to the South China Morning Post. “It’s hard to make a decision like that before the season”. I never played for money. Bryant produced the video narrative, in which he shares his philosophies of life and reviews the ups and downs of his experiences on the basketball court.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Mozgov would earn $4.9 million in 2015-16 and then enter free agency.
Conversely, the Lakers’ biggest summer acquisitions the past few years have been Jeremy Lin, Nick Young and Roy Hibbert.
-The Toronto Raptors promoted Teresa Resch to vice president of basketball operations and player development and Dan Tolzman to director of player personnel. Bryant calls it “an intimate look at who I am as a person, not what I am”.
“I’m making this very simple”. Last October, China’s richest man was spotted courtside at the Lakers’ season opener, sandwiched between WME chiefs Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell, during a week in which he made highly-publicized rounds of Hollywood. In the interview, Bryant revealed that he is feeling good and healthy.
He’s undecided on his future and whether he’ll go on after the coming season.
Bryant added, “I’m looking forward to it. I’m looking forward to running with these young guns”.
I don’t want to undervalue the importance of generating any type of whatever. But at the same, what is really important? I never played for money. To be fair, some of Bryant’s criticisms about the financial dynamics between owners and players are perfectly valid. When I laced my sneakers up when I was a kid in Italy I wasn’t thinking about money. I had no idea how much Magic [Johnson] or [Larry] Bird got paid. “I played it because I loved it”.
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Dwyane Wade, another aging and injury-prone star of late, has also grown tired of absorbing the financial brunt for his franchise.
