Originally Posted by
James D
At 17 years old he called the coach of the nets, the man making the draft choice and told him he would not play for the nets. At the same time he had his agent calling one of the nets owners telling him Kobe was going to Italy to play if drafted by nets. Even sonny vaccaro the head of Nike at the time was working behind the scenes to screw the nets and help the lakers. This is ten times more shady then Lebron taking a 15 million dollar pay cut to go play with wade and bosh, who also took huge pay cuts, after already fulfilling his contract.