Notes for Wednesday (+video)

Just some notes from Wednesday's NightShift on SportsRadio 610...
Mentioned Aaron Hill's steal of home last night on Andy Pettitte, here it is...

Also have to make sure you've seen this dunk from HS hoops prospect Willie Warren, of course he's from Team Texas

I know you saw Quinton "Rampage" Jackson get the best of Chuck Liddell this past weekend, but have you seen this...


- Discussed this article from Bill Simmons on Kobe trade proposals. Anything you like? btw - as I mentioned on the air several times, KObe is a Laker today, Kobe will be a Laker tomorrow and he'll retire a Laker, with no stops in between.
- The he said, she said was in full swing, most of it coming from Kobe. Here's what Kobe said about the team being broken apart after the '04 season...

"I went up to his penthouse suite. [Buss] looks me dead in the face and says: 'Kobe, I am not going to re-sign Shaq. I am not about to pay him $30 million a year or $80 million over three years. No way in hell. I feel like he's getting older. His body is breaking down, and I don't want to pay that money to him when I can get value for him right now rather than wait.

"This is my decision. It's independent of you. My mind is made up. It doesn't matter to me what you do in free agency because I do not want to pay [Shaq], period.'"

"Dr. Buss said that," Bryant told Smith. "And I haven't said anything for years because I've always felt like folks were just looking to create controversy. Now I know. I realize what extent [the Lakers] will go to, to cover themselves."

Reached afterward, O'Neal told Smith that he believed his former teammate to be beyond reproach.

"I believe Kobe 100 percent," O'Neal said when reached in Los Angeles. "Absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind Kobe is telling the truth. I believe him a thousand percent.

"I would have respected Dr. Buss more as a man if he would have told me that himself, because I know he said it. But he didn't [tell me]. He never said a damn word to me."

- Rashard Lewis constantly being discussed by the fans as a possibility for the Rockets. You can see in this article where he thinks he stands and what he thinks he's worth (and how that does not match the Rockets in any way.

--- WEX