Kobe Bryant Trade Rumors

Dirk Nowitzki No. 12 on Bill Simmons' trade value rankings

Grantland's Bill Simmons has finally completed his 13th annual NBA trade value rankings, a trilogy this year. Dirk Nowitzki came in at No. 12. The Sports Guy's take on the big German: One of my favorite NBA lists … Dolph Schayes Hal Greer John Havlicek Kobe Bryant Tim Duncan Paul Pierce Dirk Nowitzki That's the 15-Year Club — the only seven NBA players who spent their entire careers with the same franchise, played at least 15 seasons AND won at least one title. Dallas Mavericks Blog | ESPN Dallas

Lakers season wrap: Steve Nash was effective in revised role

Steve Nash was acquired last summer by the Lakers in a trade with the Phoenix Suns. After 16 seasons in the league, Nash came to the Lakers as a future Hall of Fame point guard but he gradually evolved into a shooting guard next to Kobe Bryant. Lakers Now | Los Angeles Times

Pau Gasol is front and center in Lakers' victory

Kobe Bryant's favorite big man may have silenced the trade talk for now with his second triple-double in three games to help give the Lakers a playoff berth.In the final minute of overtime in the Lakers' most important game of the season, Kobe Bryant took to Twitter to make a plea. Los Angeles Times

How to motivate a Mamba? It's a done deal for Lakers' Kobe Bryant

Athletes come and go, and Kobe Bryant is a goner with this injury and surgery. You get a car with as many miles as Kobe has on him and what do you do? You trade it in for something more dependable.A couple of months ago, Kobe Bryant and I sat down over coffee in Minneapolis to discuss his future. Los Angeles Times

Bryant backs the Gasol reclamation project

LOS ANGELES -- In pretty much the definition of a late-developing wrinkle with it being Game No. 78 of 82 on the Los Angeles Lakers schedule and all, the team decided to give the oft-injured, trade-speculated, over-the-hill (at least by reputation) Pau Gasol a chance to be the four-time All-Star, two-time champion, pride-of-Spain that he is. Well, one player on the team decided it, to be specific. "He just tells me to just run to the post and take it and screw everything else, basically," Gasol said of Kobe Bryant's instructions. Land O' Lakers | ESPN Los Angeles

Seeing Kobe Bryant in Detroit Pistons jersey 'would have looked weird,' says Tayshaun Prince

Prince was unaware he was supposed to be part of the 2007 blockbuster trade that would have sent Bryant from Los Angeles to Detroit until arriving in Michigan with the Memphis Grizzlies to play the Pistons Tuesday. Grand Rapids Press

Kobe Bryant was on verge of joining Detroit Pistons in 2007 before nixing deal with Los Angeles Lakers

The Pistons and Lakers had agreed to a deal sending Bryant to Detroit, a source confirmed to MLive Media Group, before the Lakers star had a change of heart after originally demanding a trade. Grand Rapids Press

Kobe Bryant nixed trade to Pistons in 2007, affecting possible Grant Hill return

Kobe Bryant a Piston? It could've happened before the 2007-08 season, if Bryant would've waived his no-trade clause, according to a report by Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski. A league source said Grant Hill also could have returned to the Pistons that season. Detroit News

Kobe Bryant focuses on present, not Dwight Howard's Lakers future

At the NBA All-Star game, Bryant says 'it doesn't matter' what his team does with six-time All-Star center as the trade deadline approaches and the team needs to focus on trying to win every game. HOUSTON — Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard were here, so of course there was going to be drama. Los Angeles Times

NBA to resume, with Lakers in funk and Heat on top

Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers turned their attention Monday from bad basketball and trade talk to more somber matters. Miami Herald