On his national TV talk show this week, Fox Sports' Colin Cowherd recounted an old, if inaccurate, story involving Kobe Bryant and the Charlotte Hornets.
Cowherd was talking about bad franchises, and how they are often taken advantage of by good sports franchises. He used the Hornets as an example. As the story goes, when the Hornets drafted Bryant with the 13th pick of the 1996 draft, Charlotte basically kicked Bryant to the Lakers to acquire center Vlade Divac.
Four years ago, Bryant even tweeted something along those lines.
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