{"id":115474,"date":"2021-12-16T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T05:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dafabetsports.com\/en\/?p=115474"},"modified":"2021-12-16T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T05:21:55","slug":"kobe-bryant-was-almost-traded-to-the-bulls-in-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dafabetsports.com\/en\/basketball\/kobe-bryant-was-almost-traded-to-the-bulls-in-2007-115474.html","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant Was Almost Traded to the Bulls in 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/dafabetsports.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kobe-Bryant-min.jpg\" alt=\"Kobe Bryant \" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dafabetsports.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kobe-Bryant-min.jpg 620w, https:\/\/dafabetsports.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kobe-Bryant-min-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/dafabetsports.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kobe-Bryant-min-120x68.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"button-container\">\n<div class=\"button-align\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dafa07.net\/DFBSPMY-REG1\"><img alt=\"\"src=\"https:\/\/www.dafabetsports.com\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/unspoken\/images\/join-now.png\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dafa07.net\/DFBSPMY-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dafabetsports.com\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/unspoken\/images\/view-market.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='content-column one_fourth'><p><strong>Share this story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\">\n<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"addthis_button_google_plusone\" g:plusone:size=\"medium\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_pinit\" pi:pinit:url=\"https:\/\/www.dafabet.com\" pi:pinit:media=\"#\" pi:pinit:layout=\"horizontal\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=undefined\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button END --><br \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"three-fourth\">\n<p>In 2007, Kobe Bryant (age 29) demanded a trade to the Chicago Bulls. The deal was so close to being done that Kobe started looking for a home in Chicago. Per ESPN, the Lakers wanted Tyrus Thomas, Luol Deng, Ben Gordon and a rookie Joakim Noah. Bulls general manager John Paxson ultimately rejected the trade because he didn\u2019t want to part ways with Luol Deng.<\/p>\n<p>Kobe Bryant was almost a Bull. Imagine how different the last 15 years would\u2019ve been if John Paxson agreed to ship off Deng. We would have seen a backcourt with Kobe and Derrick Rose, which on paper sounds like the greatest in NBA history. Not to mention that they could have made other superstars want to join the Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>Kobe Bryant is possibly one of the greatest NBA players of all-time and the greatest Laker ever. Two jersey numbers in the rafters at the STAPLES Center prove it. Kobe was able to take over games in ways that not many players could.<\/p>\n<p>His drive to win at any cost helped him succeed on and off the court. An 18-time NBA All-Star, five-time NBA champion and one-time NBA MVP, Kobe tragically passed away on January 26, 2020. Kobe\u2019s game was influenced by Michael Jordan, he never denied it.<\/p>\n<p>Eduardo Solano, from FOX Sports Radio 1340 AM Hopewell and AccuScore, wrote this about Kobe Bryant last year:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve always been a Chicago Bulls fan but I followed Kobe Bryant\u2019s entire career! Kobe is one of my favorite athletes of all-time and I still can\u2019t process that he is gone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During Bryant\u2019s memorial at the STAPLES Center, MJ delivered an emotional eulogy<em>, \u201cMaybe it surprised people that Kobe and I were very close friends. But we were very close friends. Kobe was my dear friend. He was like a little brother. Everyone always wanted to talk about the comparisons between he and I. I just wanted to talk about Kobe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBecause as a kid growing up in Italy, all I had was video, so I studied everything,\u201d<\/em> Kobe said in 2016. <em>\u201cI studied every player. Then once I came back to the States, [and] I realized I wasn\u2019t going to be 6-9, I started studying Michael exclusively.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd then when I came to the league and [was] matching up against him, what I found is that he was extremely open to having a mentor relationship and giving me a great amount of advice and an amazing amount of detail, strategies, workout regimen and things like that,\u201d<\/em> Kobe added. <em>\u201cSeriously, I don\u2019t think people really understand the amount of impact that he\u2019s had on me as a player and as a leader.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2007, Kobe Bryant (age 29) demanded a trade to the Chicago Bulls. 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An 18-time NBA All-Star, five-time NBA champion and one-time NBA MVP, Kobe tragically passed away on January 26,","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":115475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-los-angeles-lakers","category-nba"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kobe Bryant Was Almost Traded to the Bulls in 2007<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 2007, Kobe Bryant (age 29) demanded a trade to the Chicago Bulls. The deal was so close to being done that Kobe started looking for a home in Chicago. 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