Former Los Angeles Lakers star guard Kobe Bryant is one of the more beloved figures in the franchise's history. He helped lead Los Angeles to five NBA titles, winning one MVP award along the way.
He was unhappy with how the organization was going about things and was criticized by former general manager Mitch Kupchak. Many people blamed Bryant for the struggles that the Lakers were seeing but one trade changed everything. "I learned a lesson, which is you have to separate business from the love of the game because there were a lot of decisions that were made business-wise that I wasn't happy with," Bryantat the end of the 2007-08 season. "I took a lot of the blame for a lot of the stuff they were doing. It didn't sit right with me. It still doesn't sit right with me.