Are the Los Angeles Lakers Gambling with Kobe Bryant to Get to LeBron James?

The greatest player of his era can opt out of his contract at the end of the 2009-10 NBA season.

The greatest player of the next era will be a free agent after this season.

No matter how much they get tired of hearing their names together, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James' fates will be intertwined. The two best players in the world fit together like cereal and milk. Unfortunately, the prospect of them living together like in their puppet world is a greater possibility than them playing together.

Given that backdrop, one has to wonder why Kobe Bryant hasn't signed a $91 million extension that is allegedly on the table for him.

Media personalities and journalists have been speculating that perhaps Kobe wants to ensure that Phil Jackson commits to a couple mo...

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