Kobe was traded for Vlade Divac and Vince was traded for his best friend fron University of North Carolina, Antawn Jamison.
And to be honest, Vlade was one of the better Centers at the time, no one really knew what Kobe was going to end up like and the Hornets needed a center so...
Imagine a Hornets team at the end of the 90s, beggining 2000, made out of Eddie Jones, Baron Davis, Ricky Davis, Elden Campbell, David Wesley, Jamaal Magloire, etc.
That would've been the craziest team in history.