The Lakers held their media day yesterday and of course someone just had to ask about Dwight Howard choosing the Houston Rockets and not returning to the Lakers. Kobe’s answers to questions have been more candid as his career nears its end and this is a perfect example. Read more after the jump.
Asked about his surprise level when Dwight Howard chose to leave L.A. for Houston in free agency, Bryant was clearly ready to move on.
“Honestly, man, I don’t really give a s—,” he told reporters. “If he would have come back, it would have been great. If he didn’t … It is what it is.”
“Our expectations are always the same going into every single season: It’s to improve every day with the goal in mind of winning a championship,” Bryant said, via Dave McMenamin of ESPN Los Angeles. “It doesn’t matter what anybody else is saying, that’s the goal that we have.”
Well of course people have predicted a terrible year for the Lakers. In fact I don’t think anyone has them making it to the postseason. Kobe has a response for that.
“Those people have been wrong before,” Bryant said, in an interview with Time Warner Cable. “They picked us to win a championship last year, and they were dead-ass wrong about that.”
