The Los Angeles Laker fans are getting worried as the NBA Draft is approaching. The fans aren’t really concern with who the Lakers might take with their number 19th overall pick, but keeping NBA leading scorer Kobe Bryant on the roster. It’s being rumored now that Kobe wants out of LA. If the Lakers were going to move the superstar out of the gold and purple, it would most certainly be before or during this year’s NBA Draft.

Most are calling this a 2 player draft with Greg Oden going 1 and Kevin Durant going 2nd. Once you get to the Atlanta Hawks 3rd overall pick, then the draft could take any direction. If Kobe is leaving Los Angeles then you have to go right to the top of the draft first.

The Portland Trailblazers have that pick and it would be really hard to trade away a future NBA center that will probably have a 10+ year career as a starting center in the NBA. If they was going to ship Oden out, then it would take a player like Kobe for them to pull the trigger. Portland is very young and adding a 29 year-old Bryant might not make the most sense here.

Then we have the Seattle Supersonics who is on the clock. Kevin Durant falls in their lap with the 2nd overall pick. This could be possible here; if Seattle could add in future draft picks and maybe gets Rashard Lewis under contract. I could see Kevin Durant, Rashard Lewis, and a future 1st round draft pick being enough for the Lakers to bite. Ray Allen and Kobe Bryant would be a tough tandem to deal with, if you could find a way for them to both get their shots each night.

Then you have the Atlanta Hawks who have a lot of young players on their squad. Packaging up some of these players and Atlanta having the 3rd and 11th overall draft picks in this year’s draft, might be able to land Kobe in the ATL. Obviously Atlanta would want to have Josh Smith and Marvin Williams to play along side of Kobe, so the current players of Josh Childress and Shelden Williams might be in the deal with the 3rd overall pick.

It should be interesting to see what team Kobe is on after this year’s draft. If Kobe is still a Laker the Friday after the draft, I think Jack and all the Hollywood stars that make up LA’s season ticket holders, could breathe a sigh of relief.