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B/R NBA Staff Roundtable: Biggest What-If Trades That Almost Happened, News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors
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Kobe Bryant reportedly turned down a trade to Pistons in 2007
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Kobe Bryant wanted to be traded from Lakers to Bulls in 2007 - NBC Sports
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Kobe Retiring Both Numbers Is So Very Kobe - The Ringer
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Kobe Bryant Was Almost Traded To The Detroit Pistons
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Kobe Bryant Trade To Mavericks Was Reportedly Not Nearly As Close As Mark Cuban Remembers: The Lakers Took Only One Proposed Trade That Summer To Detroit. - Fadeaway World
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Why the Lakers stunk so bad this season, and how they can recover - Los Angeles Times
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Kobe Bryant, Biography, Stats, & Facts
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Kobe Bryant Was Almost Traded For Grant Hill, Phil Jackson Thought For A Few Minutes But Rejected The Trade Offer - Fadeaway World
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Kobe Bryant confirms he squashed trade to Pistons in 2007 - Detroit Bad Boys
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Lakers News Lakers Almost Traded Kobe Bryant For Grant Hill In 1999
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What If: What would a Grant Hill-Kobe Bryant trade in '99 have meant for the Goin' to Work Pistons?