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Jeff Teague once turned down a trade to the Lakers because of the taxes in California and pressure of playing with Kobe.



KOBE: “You left me out here with this sh-t [Jeremy Lin]?! I told them to go get you, you was scared?!”

TEAGUE: “I didn’t know he knew my name. I was like, ‘Oh, sh-t.’ I went to the bench and tell Rattlesnake Tay, Dahntay Jones… We called him ‘Rattlesnake Tay’ he was the fake Mamba and say, ‘Yo! Kobe f—ks with me!’ He responds, ‘Kobe don’t f—k with you.’”

by Odd-Direction9452

4 Comments

  1. Bruinrogue

    Confirming he’s just a hired gun not really interested in winning it all.

  2. jellybeans_over_raw

    The taxes thing is such a cop out for these guys.

  3. Theoneandonlylog

    I’m guessing if the Lakers were a championship contender at the time it’d be different. We see this a lot nowadays. No one wants to come play for the Lakers because they know that the Lakers aren’t capable of building a championship level roster anymore.

    This sub likes the act like being a Laker is a huge honor but to NBA players that didn’t grow up Lakers fans there’s a lot of disadvantages to being a Laker. In the Laker’s glory days those disadvantages used to be outweighed by being able to compete for championships. NBA players see all the dysfunction of the Lakers the past decade and decide that it’s just not worth it anymore.

  4. Pay-Green

    Do these people know that their taxes go in helping fund our social benefits? (EBT, medicare, infrastructure. Etc)

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