Kobe Bryant was once convinced he was joining the Knicks: Adrian Wojnarowski
NY Post
What could have been, Knicks fans will never know.
There was a time, former NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski has revealed, when Kobe Bryant believed he’d be coming to the Mecca.
“He was convinced he was going to end up with the Knicks,” Woj said during an appearance on Carmelo Anthony’s “7PM in Brooklyn” podcast Thursday.
“[This was] when Jim Buss was running the Lakers, I remember sitting there with Kobe down in Orange County — I think Tim Grover was with us — and I remember him saying, ‘they’re going to amnesty me, no one’s going to claim me off waivers, and I’m gonna’ go sign with the Knicks.’”
Woj told Bryant that Los Angeles’ brass wouldn’t dream of it.
“I said, ‘they’re not going to amnesty you … they’ll burn this city down,’” Wojnarowski reminisced. “[Kobe] loved the Lakers and he only ever really wanted to be there, but he would fantasize, he loved the Garden.”
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