[GoChargers]

Kobe is absolutely a locker room cancer. Just read Phil's book "The Last Season," which is full of examples of just how paranoid and obsessive Kobe really is. He's lucky he's almost ALWAYS had either a once-in-a-generation big man or the league's deepest and best big man rotation to carry him, because the period of time between Shaq and Pau exposed Kobe.

For the record, I think most NBA teams would much rather have a non-cancer who can win rings without having an overinflated ego and throwing coaches and teammates under the bus, i.e. Tim Duncan.

And Kobe's reason for starting this stuff is to deflect blame for the team's losing ways onto someone else (after he insisted all summer that the Lakers were "still his team"). That's it, that's all.