Trade Winds

The Loose Cannons, along with PMS (a local sports talk show), just broke this Trade Rumor from the doctor of a friend of a friend of Money. This doctor also happens to be the doctor of Vanessa Bryant:

Kobe for Luol Deng, Ben Gordon, Chris Duhon and the 9th pick of the draft.

If that's true, then wow.

Lakers Starting Five:
Lamar Odom
Luol Deng
Ben Gordon
Chris Duhon or Jordan Farmar
Andrew Bynum

Bulls Starting Five:
Kobe Bryant
Kirk Hinrich
Ben Wallace
Andres Nocioni
Tyrus Thomas

Interesting. The Bulls probably can make it to the Finals in the Leastern conference, while the Lakers suddenly become entertaining.

Of course, this is from the doctor of the friend of the friend of Money, so this is all probably just a bunch of bologna (also, that'll be breaking patient-doctor confidentiality, don't you think?). But couple this with Johnny Buss shooting his mouth off saying "Good Luck Kobe wherever you go!" and you have the makings of an interesting scenario, to say the least.

Hey, maybe that's why Kobe switched to the number 24: he knew all along that he would be following number 23 in Chicago.