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Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle was asked after the game about Jackson’s future.
“My belief is that he’ll retire for a while, but I don’t know how long you can go to Montana and meditate and ... smoke peyote or whatever he does there,” Carlisle said. “He’s gonna get bored, and I mean that in an endearing way.”
When told about Carlisle’s comment, Jackson smiled and, in his usual measured demeanor, said: “Well, first of all, you don’t smoke peyote.”
― Aerosol, Monday, 9 May 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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to me the biggest mistake the buss crew made is not cutting ties with kobe.. granted I dont run a team and need to sell tickets and stuff but they gained absolutely nothing by extending him to a max deal for 2 years before he even proved he wasnt a shell of his former self. now you have a 2 yr commitment to a guy who is an undisputed fucking cock, a coach nobody on the team seems to respect and a front office that looks incompetent.
if they sign carmello I will die laughing
It is Jackson who once acknowledged that he ordered a team plane to take off without Buss because he didn’t show up on time. And it is Jackson who is engaged to Buss’ sister Jeanie, which caused a huge rift since Jackson was snubbed for D’Antoni.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
kobe is here to weigh in everyone
http://www.latimes.com/sports/basketball/nba/lakers/la-sp-lakers-kobe-20140313,0,5132582.story#axzz2vnCLDYJP
Bryant was smoldering as he spoke an hour after the team announced he would not play the rest of this season because of a fractured knee.
With the free-agent crop looking less enticing this summer than expected, Bryant said he had no patience to wait until July 2015, when All-Star forwards Kevin Love and LaMarcus Aldridge could become free agents.
"No. No. Nope. Not one lick," he said.
Then Bryant became sarcastic when talking about next season.
"Oh, yeah, let's just play next year and let's just suck again. No. Absolutely not," he said. "It's my job to go out there on the court and perform, no excuses for it. Right? You've got to get things done.
"Same thing with the front office. The same expectations they have of me when I perform on the court, it's the same expectations I have for them up there."
He's obviously not pleased with the Lakers' upper management.
"How can I be satisfied with it? We're like 100 games under .500. I can't be satisfied with that at all," Bryant said. "This is not what we stand for, this is not what we play for."
Bryant's window is small. He'll be 36 in August and has two seasons left on his contract for $48.5 million.
He said the Lakers need to play with championships in mind "or everything else is a complete failure.
"That's how it was explained to me by Jerry West and all the other great Lakers that have played here. That's just how it is," he said.
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