Our new starting small forward: Kobe Bryant

and I’m glad you did.

REC-oslovakia.

We do all that and sign Artest. The rest of the team circles around them, and they have a knife fight to the death for the SF position.

The beauty here? The salary for the loser comes off our books!

but I am pretty sure he might be the Antichrist.

At any rate is he definitely a huge boner.

Please God no. You just described my worst nightmare.

If the Blazers actually acquired Kobe Bryant (yeah, right), it would make total sense. There would be absolutely no defensible reason why he shouldn’t play for Portland. But I would love my team just a little bit less. I’d enjoy the basketball, but the emotional bond would not be as strong. I’d also view with disdain the inevitable bandwagon-jumping by Kobe fans that would result.

Have you ever seen the two of them together?

I hate you Norsk

/shakes fist angrily

Anything to crush LeBron. Except nooottt really because. Well just because.

there is no “FREE BAYLESS!” option

Sell my soul for the Blazers dynasty of championships starting 2010 and running straight through six seasons. Thanks for posting this, now I can look forward to burning in hell.

No sex offenders on our team please

He is a great player, but I like players who don’t have to play dirty.

……and it makes total sense.

Rec para juevos grandes.

You can’t joke about this stuff.

Mom…… NORSK’sTROLLING AGAIN!

I want you to do another post, about the potential options of the particular free agent that KP was saving cap for at the beginning of the season, NOT Kobe.

Crazy Ron yes, rapist no.

Plus, look at the way he’s feeling Brandon up. That’s inappropriate.

but whoa, if KP pulls something like that I’ll start the 1st church of Kevin Pritchard

It’s even sicker than my Caron Butler + Washington pick for Travis Outlaw

…could put to “o” back in K*be!

Rec.

If KP ever acquires Bryant, I foresee two possibilities. One, Blazer fans coming face to face with K*be in a Portland uniform would put all of Rip City into shock and we’d simply pass out. Or two, the encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum, and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that’s a worse case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.

Show yourselves!

I suppose I could get over Kobe Bryant as a Blazer.

Even though our time with Pippen was basically Jordan’s sloppy seconds, and Kobe probably hasn’t too many miles on him left.

But still…

I could never under any circumstance bring myself to root for Kobe.

He hasn’t proven he could win anything without Shaq, I fail to see how that would change with the Blazers. I seriously would just stop watching… I can’t deny kobe’s talent, but also can’t stand his entitlement, his attitude towards his teammates, etc, etc, etc. Kobe also has a TON of miles on his odometer-which I think is really starting to show up-he definitely had a dominant game last night, but I have seen a number of games this year where he has not looked like the Kobe of old.

…are beautiful too. “Top five protected” from those two teams means we get the 6th and 7th picks on top of K*be!!

Seriously, of course we’d do this. I’d say Kobe is an upgrade over Martell and Outlaw. But, only problem is we’re already gonna have LeBron by next year

Almost Tom like the way you knew you were going to provoke a riot and still sound so reasonable,subtle yet evil,my complements

but he is the devil

by a drunk driver who crashed her SUV into the joint. There’s a photo of the destruction located in the below link to a newspaper article on the incident, for whatever it’s worth to y’all.

http://tinyurl.com/cd8m9v

I once worked at the 7-Eleven located right next door to that place, too, but sadly nothing that interesting ever happened when I use to work the overnight shift there.

If you had a choice between being 100% sure the Blazers would win a title in the next 5 years (but with Kobe on the team), or not winning a title in the next 20 years, which would you take?

This makes no sense and no I will never cheer for Kobe

I’d rather see #25 retired in honor of Kersey before I’d see it retired for Trout… No offense to Trout but Kersey deserves it more at this point

Emotional, yes, but logical? Anyone have any ideas? Otherwise, I’m on board with it.

1. I’m apathetic toward Kobe Bryant — which puts me in a vast minority —since I neither like nor dislike him.

2. The likelihood that Bryant will ever play for the Portland Trail Blazers is next to nil and, therefore, shouldn’t be discussed as a realistic possibility.

3. I’m a Seattle Mariners and Seattle Seahawks fan first and foremost, with the Trail Blazers being a distant third in my personal ranking of favorite professional sports team.

Now, with that out of the way, anyone who wouldn’t root for the Trail Blazers if Kobe Bryant was on the roster isn’t a true fan of the team. Rather, you’re bandwagon, casual fans who care more about the players on the team instead of the franchise itself. That, in my opinion, is a backward mindset.

I’m sure if I went up to a diehard Los Angeles Clippers fan that they’d rant endlessly about the organization’s sleazy cheapskate of an owner (i.e., Donald Sterling), abject failure of a GM/coach (i.e., Mike Dunleavy, Sr.), and awful collection of players (i.e., Zach Randolph, Baron Davis, Ricky Davis, et al.). Yet, regadless of those dire straits, I bet they still bleed red, white, and blue with all their heart and don’t think twice about it.

If Norsk said, “Our new starting PF: Shav Randolph” I’m now one hundred percent positive he’d somehow get over 10 recs for it.

WHY WOULD I WANT THE BEST PLAYER SINCE MICHAEL JORDAN ON MY TEAM? YOU THINK I WANT THE BLAZERS TO WIN A TON MORE GAMES? YOU’RE WRONG.

Oh wait. I’d love if Kobe came to Portland, it would be the most unfair team in the history of basketball.

That supertanker size egos like Kobe and Lebron have no interest in playing in a small market,podunk town like portland

Those theories about norsktroll being KP? Is he testing the waters? Don’t drink the kool-aid!

and it hurts.

Like most sane Blazer fans I do despise the L*kers to the core of my being. (And if you think I have to INSTILL that in people, well…I don’t know if I can help you. Good, old-fashioned L*ker despising was around long before I put one finger to a keyboard and will be a Blazer fan trait long after I’m dead and gone.) However, if you listened to the podcast today you know we talked about the team’s needs which included a scorer, a defender, veterans, and people with that unstoppable championship will and grit. Go ahead, ask me if I’d take Kobe on this team for Travis and Martell. Ask me!

In a heartbeat I’d do it.

Also you don’t have to trade Travis. You can just renounce him if you’re sure Kobe will be amenable to the offer. And you don’t need first round picks back for Martell. Don’t need ‘em. You could take junk. You could throw OUR first round pick in with Martell to get somebody to bite. But you really don’t even have to do that. You can keep Martell. Just don’t pick up the options on Blake and Travis and don’t tender an offer to Channing Frye. If Miles is off the books there’s your $20 million right there. Who cares if we’re short at PG and back-up forward? You can get plenty of guys at mid-level range who could play alongside and behind a lineup including Roy, Rudy, Kobe, LaMarcus, Greg, and Joel.

Of course Kobe would never, ever come here. But if he would, sign me up yesterday.

—Dave

All things considered, I will like any player that KP brings in.

No thank you. They can keep that whiny prima donna in LA LA land where he fits in perfectly.

but with that said, if he donned the black and red I would have to root for him.

and I was only eleven when the Blazers won, but I have just as many good feelings about many of the teams before and after that one. The only difficulties I have had supporting the team were when forced to justify in my mind liking, cheering, pulling for Woods, Randolph, Wells, the surly Strickland, the disinterested Detlef Schrempf, the… the… the whatever Ruben Patterson was. JR Rider. JR Rider. JR Rider.

My hope for Kobe is that he gets bounced out of the playoffs this year enjoys his last couple years like Michael Jordan and Karl Malone enjoyed theirs.

I’ve lived without championships, but I’ve enjoyed cheering for a team full of people I like the last two years.

Notable Lakers I’ve never liked:

a. Rick Fox
b. Lamar Odom
c. Byron Scott
d. Magic’s Late Show
e. Did i mention Rick Fox?

You figured out the way to make me quit the Blazers.

I’d take Amar’e for LMA over this. And I would never do that.

Kobe wants the ball. Wait, we already have people on our team who want the ball.

Kobe wants to be the man. We’ve already got our leader.

Kobe’s wife Vanessa would divorce Kobe for not living in LA.

Kobe’s arrogant attitude might have an impression on the kids. Wait, as soon as we don’t win a championship they will have all learned from the best that you fix that be demanding a trade.

BlazerFan1 would kill Paul Allen for putting her man on the bench (and you for suggesting it).

I’d rather have Bill Laimbeer on our team.

This is the worst idea I’ve ever heard on Blazers Edge. But I’m on to you Norsktroll. You’ve been getting edgier and edgier, trying to make the most controversial posts you can, while staying inbounds, in the past month or so. Looks like you topped them all.

just….pathetic really.

We spend the good portion of the last 10 years cursing his name, then we win a few games, and now, ya’ll are ready to not only wash his shorts, but also spray his jock strap with cologne for his pre game warm ups……

I curse thee as I used to respect thee….. now I feel lost and abandoned by kinship that I knew to be true.

I loath the idea, and hope for the rise of The Trailblazers to crush this ninny, sissy, poor example of how to treat ones wife, can’t win a championship without shaq, elbower of kristie, defiler of the game, traitorous swine, asterisk to the championships he did win wearer, L.Aian into the ground that I’m not sure he came.

Dam the man and the white horse he rode in on.

If cursed to another 50 years without a championship nor a second seed playoff birth…..I’ll take it happily before I willingly accept a K*be Pee Ant Bryant on this team.

Championships be damned….this is not the way.

My hate for kobe and my love for the blazers would battle inside me and cause me to explode

The last thing I want is to share the rose garden with a bunch of pathetic Kobe worshippers chanting MVP after every superstar foul call he gets.

If we won the title with kobe on our team, I would climb the rafters myself and burn it.

He loves the Blazers

But would never happen.

For the headline that should of never been written.

For the idea that should of never been expressed.

For the photo of Kobe and Brandon that needs to be destroyed.

   PLEASE, please, leave that cake out in the rain, and NEVER never have that recipee again.

Seriously, even if it happened and WORKED (i.e., brought the Blazers a championship or two), I abhor the concept. The fun of fandom is having your team BEAT guys like Kobe Bryant.

I want the Blazers to dash Bryant’s dreams; I want the Blazers to inhabit Bryant’s nightmares.

And consider him the most nauseatingly disingenuous character in the NBA. Somehow I’m supposed to forget that the second he signs with the Blazers?

Sorry, but a parade would be substantially less fun with him on one of the floats. Seeing his face on a season ticket renewal packet would make me think twice.

Reading this made me feel 30 times dirtier than I did after Ben or Dave’s (can’t remember who posted it and am too lazy to look back) article about signing Shaq. And I agree with Badalona Baddie that the worst part of this would be the Kobe fans. I’ll take a team of 12 Shavs over having Bryant.

that this got 22 recs only shows that the bedge has jumped the shark.

DEATH TO THE LAKERS, NOT BECAUSE THEY’RE THE LAKERS, BUT BECAUSE KOBE PLAYS THERE.

who cares if he’s from the la lakers .. its pretty stupid how so many people say “but he’s evill” or “this makes me feel dirty” .. everybody would agree that this makes our team better if it happens . not trading for a player because he’s killed us in the past would be a bad move

Kobe stays in LA to the end of his career, just like LeBron stays in Cleveland to the end of his career, just like Wade stays in Miami…

Some things just are the way they are, y’know?

If there’s one Laker that I’d like to see on the Blazers next year or soon after, it is 7’0" rucker DJ DNP-CD Mbenga.

And get me Brandon Bass, too.

Then I promise to shut up and be a good boy.

I could ‘let it go’ and be open to this idea.

But I can’t…..

I made a fan post about it here, and there were different opinions mostly fans did not want him. But I said that L.A. should not win the title in 2009, and Kobe can opt out. I also talked about how Kobe praised Nate, and there were some instances where Kobe and Nate, or Kobe and KP were in the same sentence. Also I thought that Miles would stay of Blazers cap at that time. Think about it its better for hm to opt out this summer than next cuz there will be less competition this summer than next LeBron, Wade, Bosh)

I’ve seen this guy play and he is good. Just plays for a crappy team in a crappy city. Good coach, though. What do you think the realities of this happening are? Or am I missing the point/joke?

or He-man battling Skeletor. Are we the young, pure, underdog rebel alliance fighting against the evil Darth Vadar or what?
    I like basketball. I want the team I like, the Blazers, to beat the other teams. True, I don’t like Kobe as a person, but I also don’t hate him and i never got that. There are people out there who actually kill, steal, and beat people smaller than them. There is the whole rape thing, but I am just not sure that happened. I don’t know. If I knew it did I would get it. Until then he is just some guy who is really good at basketball, and sounds like an arrogant jerk. There are arrogant jerks on Blazersedge, I don’t hate them.
  I don’t want Kobe to join the Blazers, but it sure would be fun to watch them crush everbody. I guess I don’t have strong feelings if it happens or not. I know somebody will say that means I’m not a true Blazer fan, but I would disagree. I don’t think you have to hate Kobe to love the Blazers. If that were true, and we did sign Kobe, that would mean that KP was not a true Blazer fan. I can’t believe that. I like this post, just because everyone gets so riled up about it.

Wow. I don’t know what you call your feelings towards Canzano.

Let’s get LeBron instead.

A. This was the worst post/poll EVER !!!!
B. What makes _ _ _ think that the fine writer of this blog
     instilled the hatred of that player or team. It was in existance
     Loooooooooooooooong before I came to this site in 2006.
C. Generation X’ers like yourself are maybe late 20’- early 30’s
     and have no idea what a REAL Blazermaniac thinks or why ?
     When you hit 20 years as a fan of one team, you start to get a
     little understanding. When you hit 35 years you can have some
     mastery of the nuances. _ _ _ sir have neither.
D. REAL Blazer fans hate the team formerly from Minneapolis and the
     rapist. They don’t care how talented he might be, or even mention how
     he might/could come here. They understand and leave the whole subject off
     any Blazer site.
E. The whole point from a practical standpoint is set. He’s a SELFISH, WHINING
     BALLHOG ! The Blazers have a great group of young players, without egos, who
     are willing to share the ball & work together to acheive something special.
     I predicted 55-27 many times before the season, primarilly because of those
     factors. (As well as very good talent) Don’t underestimate the value of team
     chemistry !
F. The Blazers have Leaders ! Nate, BRoy & Smooth. The rest of the team has decided
      to join them in leadership or follow, and it’s working. You don’t get better by
      adding disruptive forces to a great team.
G. Never ever post anything like this again. Just having to contemplate this for a few
      seconds makes all of us Blazermaniacs sick to our stomach !!!!!!

      GO BLAZERS !!!!