Quote:For the long term outlook of the franchise, they would be better off without Kobe. They are not winning anything with him and they are not going to try and do a total rebuild with him on the roster.

I would agree with this assessment as this is supposed to be Kobe's last year.

I would not mind him getting the Jeter treatment this season as he moved up the points list and rides into the sunset.

That being said, his 25 Million will be off the books next year. Randle and Okafor will realistically be going into their second year (Randle was the Lakers Dante Fowler last year).

They would have enough cap room to sign 2 max players. One of them hopefully being Westbrook.

Clarkson is an ascending player as well. In fact, his game reminds me a lot of Westbrook (not saying he will turn out to be as good as him however). 

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