Kobe Bryant says he would fire the scouts who overlooked Jeremy
Lin  Either Mike D’Antoni’s system really is that good for a
point guard, or Jeremy Lin was completely overlooked. As we all
know, Lin was a few short days away from being cut by the
Knicks. If that day came, there’s no guarantee any team in the
NBA would have offered him a roster spot. Kobe Bryant finds that
to be completely unacceptable.  “The biggest thing to me is how
everybody missed that,” Bryant said according to
ESPNNewYork.com. “They all would be fired if I was owning a
team. I hear this stuff about it came out of nowhere, and I
think it’s (wrong).  “You can’t play that well and just come out
of nowhere. There has to something there and everybody missed
it, so heads would roll.”  Somebody learned about Linsanity in a
hurry. This is the same Kobe Bryant who was blatantly frustrated
with reporters a few weeks ago when they were asking him about
Lin on the eve of the Lakers loss to the Knicks. I guess Lin’s
38-point performance in that game