Kobe Bryant's Misuse of Personal Pronoun, Nothing Personal

On May 28th we had to issue a citation to appear in "grammar court" to Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers who said, "...the Lakers and me just have two different visions for the future."

Is it just all about "me"? Perhaps, yet in this case, "I" can mean "me" and be the correct grammar choice, sort of a "two for one" deal for Kobe.

Grammatically, Kobe's sentence contains a compound subject, two subjects. Because a subject lies in the subjective case realm (also called nominative case), it must actually be a subject. Although "me" is in the subject position, it is not a subjective case personal pronoun but a an objective case pronoun. Things happen to it; it does not do things. A common solution to the problem is to use each choice alone letting your ears do the work:

The Lakers have a different vision for the future works.

Me have a different vision for the future clearly does not work. The correct choice is I.

Kobe might have said: I have a different vision of the future from the Lakers as they have not done enough for me.