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Kobe Wanted To Be A Knick?
31st January, 2007 - 10:58 am
New York Times -
When Kobe Bryant was a free agent in 2004, Isiah Thomas and the Knicks flew to Southern California armed with their mid-level exception. Despite being nearly $100 million short of what the Lakers offered, Bryant listened to their offer.
“The reason why I even was interested in taking that meeting was because of this city,” the 28-year-old Bryant said in an interview Tuesday morning. “Because I always loved this city. Always. Ever since I came here, growing up in Philadelphia, there’s always so much energy and so much buzz in this city. How passionate they are about basketball, how knowledgeable they are about basketball.”
Bryant, a nine-time All-Star, excitedly ticked off the names of the Knicks legends Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, Earl Monroe and Dave DeBusschere and said, “I just wanted to play here so bad.”
“I know what it’s like to have a team here that’s successful and how the city rallies around it,” he said. “So I was very interested. And if they had more cap flexibility, it’d definitely be a place where I would end up. I might have picked the Knicks.”
Wow...like I said. This is NYC, the best city in the world. The interest is high, it always been. Knicks had alot of ledgends in the 60s-90s. Alot of people in NBA want to come here and make a name for themselves. From elite NBA players like Kobe to Lebron. Whats keeping them from coming here? Fools like Dolan and Isiah Thomas.