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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mike111: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by kdolo: [qb] After being disrespected and discarded by Pat Riley and the Heat despite bringing 3 championships, years of playoff appearances, etc... "Dwyane Wade says he’ll always love Pat Riley, but admits business side of Heat decision ‘sucks’ After Riley sent out a text proclaiming how "SADDDDD!!!!" he was about losing his franchise star, Wade also expressed his love to reporters Saturday. "It's going to be a lot of stuff said about me and Pat. First of all, I love Pat. He has a job to do. He has a different hat to wear," Wade told reporters at his youth basketball camp in downtown Miami. "That hat sometimes is not to be my best friend. That hat is to be the president of the organization and to be a businessman, and that sucks. [/qb][/QUOTE]. EARLIER KOBE "REFUSED" TO TAKE LESS MONEY: [IMG]http://dingyue.nosdn.127.net/17HYBZw7Cx3YUE2BuBImXl5Ow7rj3AgQdKRnbBJ3fgbnR1455523554668compressflag.jpg[/IMG] Forbes Sportsmoney: Kobe Bryant Has Made Hundreds Of Millions For Lakers. Let Him Do What He Wants. Tom Van Riper, Contributor Some people point at Kobe as the problem. That as great as his career has been, his two-year, $48 million extension just hogs too much salary cap space for a team in need of a thorough rebuilding job. And it’s a valid point. Bryant, at 36, is pretty much a shell of his former self, averaging 26.5 points but shooting 39.4% from the floor with just three assists per game. Yet he’s been downplaying any talk of a trade to a contender, seemingly adamant about being a Laker for life. Is he being greedy, interfering with his club’s ability to rebuild? Maybe, but don’t say he hasn’t earned the right to do whatever he wants. By the time Kobe’s latest contract expires after the 2015-16 season, he’ll have earned just over $300 million during a 20-year career. And yes, he’s earned it. [b]You won’t find an NBA player anywhere who has built as much value into a franchise as Bryant has with the Lakers. The club, estimated by Forbes to be worth $268 million back in 1998, Bryant’s second season, checked in with a valuation of $1.35 billion in 2013.[/b] That’s a 404% increase during the Kobe era, during which the average NBA team grew 280%. Some quick math shows that had L.A.’s growth been in line with the league average over the past 15 years, the club would be worth some $750 million today, or $600 million less than where it is. And that’s in addition to the operating profits the Lakers have pocketed, usually in the tens of millions each year. Are we crediting Bryant with a $600 million boon by himself? No. Like anyone else, he had help. Shaquille O’Neal was Bryant’s fellow superstar on three championship teams in the early 2000s. And the constant over the course of all five Laker championships during Bryant’s career: Phil Jackson, arguably the best coach in NBA history. Is Bryant the greatest NBA player who ever lived? Again, no. People debate superstars from different eras all the time, but advanced NBA metrics such as win shares show that the estimated 10.1 wins per year Kobe has added to the Lakers’ totals, while outstanding, lags quite a bit behind those of Micheal Jordan, LeBron James, Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, among other all-time greats. James, in fact is right on Kobe’s heels in the franchise value department: the numbers show he’s boosted Cleveland and Miami above the league average at nearly the same annual rate that Bryant has boosted the Lakers. But LeBron has done it over a far shorter period of time – we’re about to find out how well he fares as a 30-something player. Bryant, it can’t be denied, has been the cornerstone piece of one of the great wealth accumulations in sports history, buoyed by a new arena and a record local television deal. While Phil Jackson picked his spots – fleeing Chicago after the Jordan era and taking a sabbatical from the Lakers after Shaq left – Kobe has been the constant. From three years before the first title to five years after the fifth one, he’s pushed on for the Lakers for half his life. With flash and glamor to match the skills, he’s been the perfect star in the perfect town. Another $48 million to finish up in L.A.? Chicken feed. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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