Bryant's wife cause of Gasol's break up

[3LiftHeatCurse]

Unless any of you have been in love with a woman who you thought was your wife/fiance, you can't talk about Gasol. When a man loves a woman, he will do anything for her.

So this is the second time Kobe alienates / drama with his big man ?

or is it also the 2nd time Kobe snitches on a teammate? How else would Vanessa know the stuff that goes on ? Kobe saw Gasol do something, snitched to Vanessa, and she went to tell the fiance.

[3LiftHeatCurse]

I'm not saying this is what happened, but doesn't it have to be something like this?

Pau and the Lakers go on a road trip...hit the clubs a little bit wherever they are. Pau hooks up with this hot, saucy Latina in front of everybody with saliva and lipstick ending up all over his beard. Kobe's then drinking wine with his wife a couple of weeks later and watching To Catch a Predator and Kobe lets it slip out. Vanessa can't help but blurt it out immediately to Pau's wifey.

This is exactly what I am thinking of, but instead of "Kobe let it slip out"

I picture, "Kobe snitched" again.

Kobe Bryant, breaking up marriages since 2003.

[DirtyDez]

Gasol is better then Bosh.

[durden_tyler]

^ And Bosh just got married. No way he wants to play with Kobe now

[DRose4MVP]

Drama in LA. What's new?

[bostonHEATparty]

And with that you can bet his ass will be traded. Buss isn't going through this BS again.

(I agree, only trade the common denominator, Mr Kobe Bryant)

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[Scalabrine]

And with that you can bet his ass will be traded. Buss isn't going through this BS again.

Yeah keep the guy who keeps getting into problems with other stars and trade the guy who remains pretty quiet off court...

[lakerfan10770]

And with that you can bet his ass will be traded. Buss isn't going through this BS again.

Yeah keep the guy who keeps getting into problems with other stars and trade the guy who remains pretty quiet off court...

Not sure how serious you are, but Kobe has a full no trade clause, is owed a ton of money and is clearly on the decline. I'd say Kobe is pretty much untradeable, so yeah, trading Pau makes more sense. Not that I think they should trade him.

[bicatmit]

We, the Orlando Magic, will trade you Gilbert Arenas for Pau Gasol straight up.

[Stills12]

Yeah keep the guy who keeps getting into problems with other stars and trade the guy who remains pretty quiet off court...

No trade clause, lakers legend, nba hall of famer, 5 rings with lakers and he's getting close to retirement. Even if you could you shouldn't trade away a player like that, that just ruins the memories and makes your organisation look less classy.

[lakerfan10770]

We, the Orlando Magic, will trade you Gilbert Arenas for Pau Gasol straight up.

How about Artest, Walton & Blake for Dwight?

[markjay]

This whole thread is absurd. Plashke's article adds nothing new--it just repeats what was in a tabloid report with zero evidence. If the National Enquirer reported that LeBron's father was a Martian, would it be discussed here as if it were reality?

[Foye]

We, the Orlando Magic, will trade you Gilbert Arenas for Pau Gasol straight up.

How about Artest, Walton & Blake for Dwight?

Darkeem Militombo is available if you want to get rid of Gasoft.

[lakerfan10770]

We, the Orlando Magic, will trade you Gilbert Arenas for Pau Gasol straight up.

How about Artest, Walton & Blake for Dwight?

Darkeem Militombo is available if you want to get rid of Gasoft.

No thanks, but you can have Luke Walton for anybody on your team (hell you can have him for nothing). BTW, he knows the triangle so Kurt Rambis should really like him.

[kblo247]

Try again as the same LA Times said they being Kobe and Pau didn't have an issue, Kobe said that Vanessa barely knows the chick, and she was just at the game with Pau's mother apparently

Gasol issues

The issue of Pau Gasol's subpar play in the playoffs took on a different tone when he and Bryant were asked about a rumor that the two are having problems.

A reporter took out his cellphone and showed Bryant an Internet report that said his wife, Vanessa, had been the cause of Gasol's breakup with his girlfriend, that Gasol blamed Bryant for it and that the two weren't speaking.

Bryant said that there is no discord between him and Gasol and that he knew nothing about the report involving his wife and Gasol's former girlfriend.

"They barely know each other," Bryant said.

Gasol is averaging only 13.4 points and 7.8 rebounds in the playoffs.

He acknowledged before practice Saturday that stories about his personal life are "affecting people very close to me."

"And to me it's sad, because if there was any truth to it, you deal with it," Gasol said. "But when they lie and make up stories, it's not pleasant because I don't think they help at any level."

http://www.latimes.com/sports/basketbal ... 1995.story

I'm not saying Pau doesn't have an issue, but it isn't this one it seems. Personally I'm beginning to believe it is Andrew and Pau in a pissing contest. even Spero, the Lakers radio guy said Phil spent 2 timeouts getting on those two for bickering back and forward. Both are use to being the primary C and this was the first year where Bynum wasn't forced to being a 20 minute role player, which meant Pau actually had to try to be a triangle power forward primarily

[Kobe>Jordan>God]

Per Bill Plaschke article in the LA Times:

Perhaps more than anything, the notion that Pau Gasol can be this team's next great leader was swept away. His sudden and odd postseason disappearance was the most obvious reason for the Lakers' troubles, his fall completed Sunday when he scored 10 points while being pushed around by everyone but his coach, who thankfully refrained from hitting him for a second consecutive game.

"I have to learn from this," Gasol said. ''I have to learn that when something happens off the court, you have to keep it off the court."

He was referring to the report that he stopped talking to Bryant during the postseason because Bryant's wife, Vanessa, had contributed to the breakup of Gasol and his longtime girlfriend. Lakers fans will remember that Karl Malone once publicly accused Vanessa of interfering with his personal life in a similar fashion.

Whatever was happening, Bryant and Gasol haven't connected on the court in a month, and the Lakers have been lost without the strength of their fusion.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/columnist ... umn?page=2

why hasn't this been locked yet?

Pau has denied this repeatedly as completely made up:
http://lakers.ocregister.com/2011/05/08 ... ife/54459/

Then's there the fact that Pau's supposedly ex-girlfriend, the one whose breakup caused this mythical month of angst, is still dating Pau, attending games at Staples with Pau's mom:

This morning and afternoon I talked to two people who work with the Lakers on a daily basis.
One told me that there was absolutely no talk of a breakup between Gasol and Castro by anyone in the Lakers organization and another said Pau’s girlfriend Castro most recently attended the Lakers game against the Mavericks with Gasol’s mother Marisa on Wednesday at Staples Center.

Less than two weeks earlier Gasol was seen holding hands with Castro at the Lakers annual Casino Night charity event and few days before that Gasol was photographed kissing Castro during tennis match involving Rafael Nadal at Indian Wells, California.

http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/media-the ... tand-29678

[Doctor MJ]

I really don't know what team gets the worse of the deal: Gasol to Miami, Bosh to Chicago, Boozer to LA

Do people not remember how the Lakers were mired in non-contenderdom until the day Pau Gasol arrived? One trade, and the go to 3 finals, win 2 of them, and were on pace to contend for another until the wheels came off.

Gasol has been very good for the Lakers, and for goodness sake, it hasn't been easy to find guys who can ever understand the triangle. Gasol got it immediately, Artest is still very confused. Boozer seem like the kind of guy to you that absorbs new systems at the top of a hat?

[Doctor MJ]

Per Bill Plaschke article in the LA Times:

Perhaps more than anything, the notion that Pau Gasol can be this team's next great leader was swept away. His sudden and odd postseason disappearance was the most obvious reason for the Lakers' troubles, his fall completed Sunday when he scored 10 points while being pushed around by everyone but his coach, who thankfully refrained from hitting him for a second consecutive game.

"I have to learn from this," Gasol said. ''I have to learn that when something happens off the court, you have to keep it off the court."

He was referring to the report that he stopped talking to Bryant during the postseason because Bryant's wife, Vanessa, had contributed to the breakup of Gasol and his longtime girlfriend. Lakers fans will remember that Karl Malone once publicly accused Vanessa of interfering with his personal life in a similar fashion.

Whatever was happening, Bryant and Gasol haven't connected on the court in a month, and the Lakers have been lost without the strength of their fusion.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/columnist ... umn?page=2

I find it odd that the really controversial part not only isn't in the actual quote, but has been denied about Gasol.

[Doctor MJ]

And with that you can bet his ass will be traded. Buss isn't going through this BS again.

If Gasol seriously refused to talk to Kobe this entire time, that warrants a trade. I won't say they have to do the trade because I'm practical and would want to see if they could patch things up. A player simply can't act like that.

However this seems totally absurd to me. If it simply said that that there was tension between the two of them this would seem more reasonable - and a reporter's hyperbole supplies the rest. That is of course presuming the reporter didn't make stuff up.

Like I say - if you've got a quote of Gasol saying that this was about Kobe's wife, and you're going to write an article asserting that he said something along those lines, you run the damn quote. I mean, why wouldn't you? It's a money quote - and you're certainly can't claim journalistic integrity for leaving it out when you're not keeping the contents of the quote in confidence.

[bjax24]

What's the NBA record for one player turning the most teammates against him? Kobe reminds me of that girl in high school that spreads rumors about everyone else while she herself is sleeping with the football team, the chess club, and the janitor.