How Can Lakers Both Appease Kobe Bryant and Build Intelligently?

Kobe Bryant is chafing at the bit to get past a wretched season in which he played just six games due to injury.

The five-time NBA Champion begins a two-year contract extension worth $48.5 million next fall, taking him through his 20th and presumably final season with the Los Angeles Lakers.

For a superstar so consumed with winning, that extension will unfortunately coincide with a major rebuild.

In a recent press conferen...

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