European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June stars and stripes Page 39 lakers Bryant requests later backpedal Star changes mind after talk with coach by John Nadel the associated press los Angeles Phil Jack son and Kobe Bryant were on Dif Ferent pages a few years Back the disharmony prompting the lakers coach to Call his Star player Unco Schable in a Book he their relationship is much Dif Ferent feeling insulted and Bryant asked the lakers for a Trade saying nothing could change his he spoke with his i dont want to go this is my Bryant told Lac i love it i called he and i it was an emotional but he just you know Kobe let us try to figure this thing Phil is a Guy i lean on a some three hours in an interview with esp Bry ant said i would like to be Trad Tough As it is to come to that theres no other its but i dont see How you can rebuild that i just dont know How you can move Forward in that Type of Bryant told the lakers flagship that his agent had contacted general manager Mitch Kupchak Early wednes he also said he haunt heard from owner Jerry indicating a conversation could go a Long Way toward resolving the Buss issued a statement after Bryants request to be say ing we Are aware of the Media Kobe has not told us directly that he wants to be we have made it very Clear that we Are building our team around Kobe and that we in tend for him to be a Laker his entire we will speak directly to Kobe and until we do we will not comment publicly about Bryants Rob didst respond to several messages left by the associated who helped the lakers Wui three consecutive Aba Cham has four years left on the million contract he signed july that was a Day after Shaquille Oneal was traded to the Miami Bryant was angered tuesday after a los Angeles times Colum nist quoted a lakers insider As saying it was Bryants insistence on getting away from Oneal that prompted the Trade to Bry ant said he knew who the so called insider but  identify the he also said he believes Buss misled him three years ago right before he resigned with the lakers by telling him one thing and Jackson something else about the teams Bryant said he was told the Lak ers would immediately try to re join the nabs but he said Jackson told him tuesday that Buss was not bringing him Back As coach following the 200304 season because the lakers were committed to reducing payroll and rebuilding Long they said nothing to me about a Lon term absolutely Noth Bryant told Lac on tues they told Phil one thing and they told me actions speak louder than it was the following when Jackson was out of that a Book he wrote chronicling the 200304 season was Carrier needed i he was most candid concern ing his feelings about but the two have grown close since Jackson returned As the lakers coach a year the lakers won Champion ships from 200002 and reached the Aba finals again in los ing to the Detroit pistons in five the team was broken up at that Oneal was Jackson left and other stalwarts Karl Gary Derek fish Robert Horry and Rick Fox went elsewhere or the lakers failed to make the playoffs the following with Jackson returning before the 200506 they finished seventh in the Western Confer ence in each of the past two but were eliminated by Phoenix in the first round of the the lakers appeared to be con tenders through the first half of this going 2613 despite several but they lost 27 of their last 43 games to finish 4240 before bowing to the suns in five Bryant urged the team at sea sons end to do what it takes to get Back into he essentially repeated those comments last weekend in an interview with the on he suggested former lakers general manager Jerry West should West left the team in the summer of 2000 and was succeeded by an employee of the Lak ers for about 40 years As a coach and is under con tract As the Memphis grizzlies president until july he turned 69 this week and has remained a close Friend of West has said he has no plans to seek employment with any other Orga it was West who brought Bry ant to the trading Center Vlade Divac to Charlotte in the summer of 1996 for the rights to Bryant the 13th pick in the Aba Bryant was Only 17 at the Matt Utah jazz guard Deron Williams sits on the Bench in the third Quarter of game the jazz led in Only one of 12 quarters played in san spurs jazz rarely led in series from Back Page the jazz were Over matched this after taking a seven Point Lead in the first Quarter of the first Utah didst Lead during any of the other 11 quarters played in san Antonio and has now lost 19 straight games on the spurs Home san Antonio played this game like a Veteran team the oldest in the in fact motivated by the Chance to have eight Days the spurs also were Well aware of All the other benefits of ending the series like not giving the underdogs Hope and avoiding another trip to Salt Lake san Antonio led 1611 when the Gam breaking stretch began with Parker cutting through Sev eral big Guys and making a Tough it ended with Bruce Bowen hitting a three Pointer from the left Corner that put the spurs up by they made eight straight were 12for16 for the and were out rebounding the jazz Duncan and Parker each finished with 21 Points and Manu i Nobili scored none of them played in the fourth Andrei Kirilenko led Utah with 13 Williams and Matt har Pring each scored Aba scoreboard playoffs conference finals Besto seven Eastern conference Detroit Cleveland Detroit Cleveland 76 Detroit Cleveland 76 Cleveland Detroit 82 tuesday Cleveland Detroit series tied 22 thursday Cleveland at Detroit saturday Detroit at Cleveland monday Cleveland at Western conference san Antonio Utah san Antonio Utah 100 san Antonio Utah 96 Utah san Antonio 83 san Antonio Utah 79 wednesday san Antonio Utah san Antonio wins series 41 finals san Antonio Cleveland or Detroit june 7 at san Antonio june 10 at san Antonio june 12 san Antonio at Cleve june 14 san Antonio at Cleve june 17 san Antonio at Cleve june 19 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