tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8444974543937089252.post-73146118239538541352007-05-30T16:29:00.000-07:002007-05-30T13:05:20.750-07:00<a href="http://realitykingsupdates.blogspot.com/">Kobe Bryant Seeks Trade From L.A. Lakers</a><br> <br> Kobe Bryant asked to be traded from the Lakers on Wednesday, a day after calling the team's front office "a mess." He said there was nothing the Lakers could do to change his mind.<br> <br> "I would like to be traded, yeah," Bryant told ESPN radio. "Tough as it is to come to that conclusion there's no other alternative."<br> <br> Bryant, who helped the Lakers win three consecutive NBA championships, has four years left on the seven-year, $136.4 million contract he signed July 15, 2004. That was a day after Shaquille O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat.<br> <br> Bryant became infuriated Tuesday when a Los Angeles Times columnist quoted what he called a Lakers insider as saying it was Bryant's insistence on getting away from O'Neal that prompted the trade to Miami.<br> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8444974543937089252-7314611823953854135?l=pressdaemon.blogspot.com'/></div>macreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970916388636822832noreply@blogger.com