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Paul Pierce and Kobe Bryant were playing pickup basketball in a UCLA gym last summer, a couple of frustrated NBA stars trying to sweat away the memory of a disappointing season.
Talk soon turned to trades.
Bryant had lashed out at Lakers management for assembling a team that hadn't won a playoff series in three years. The Celtics had gone four years, and Pierce worried he might become the trade bait that kick-starts the rebuilding process.
"Both of us kind of being in the same boat -- the irony that we're both in the Finals is cool," Bryant said after the Lakers practiced at their workout facility in El Segundo, Calif., on Monday. "It's good for both of us to be here. He's a great guy."
Green0017 wrote:In the article Pierce says he would have been a Clipper. Would he have been happy? He would have been in the same situation as he was last year with the Celtics. A terrible team. Thank God he stayed
