Cowherd: If I was to ask you Kobe will be a ________ by ________, what would you say? Bucher: That's just too hard to call, because there's one other team that's floating out there that I'm waiting to get in the mix and that's the Detroit Pistons.
Cowherd: There we go. There's another team with a lot of players: Give me Tayshaun Prince, Chauncey Billups and a draft pick.
Bucher: I don't even know that you'd have to go that far. Also, Rip Hamilton is going to have to be in the mix because that's the spot Kobe would take.
Cowherd: Oh, that is interesting.
Bucher: So the way things are going, I'd be surprised if Kobe's not somewhere else by Thanksgiving. Again, I was the guy that said he would never wear a Lakers' uniform again because it was obvious where this was heading. I thought calmer heads would prevail and they'd never let it get to this. I thought they'd make the deal way before this, so it's difficult for me to put a timeline on it. They've already gone way further down this road than I ever would have been willing to go.