Kobe Bryant has reached a point of frustration with Pau Gasol trade rumors.

"I wish [Lakers] management would come out and either trade him or not trade him," Bryant said after the Lakers' 102-90 loss Sunday in Phoenix. "It’s just tough for a player to give his all when you don’t know if you’re going to be here tomorrow. I'd rather them not trade him at all but if they’re going to do something, I wish they would just ... do it."

Bryant sympathized with what Gasol is going through.

"If they're not going to do it, come out and say you're not going to do it," Bryant said. "This way, he can be comfortable and go out and can perform and play and he can invest all of himself into the game. You can't have one of our pillars not knowing if he's going to be here or not. Do something. One way or another, do something."

"It is a situation that we're going through, I'm going through. It's been that way this year from before training camp," Gasol said. "Obviously it's not the best-case scenario for anybody. It's always nice to have security and reassurance but I understand it can't be that way all the time. It would be nice to know one way or the other for my mind's sake but I don't know if I'm in a position to demand that at all."