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You could have dropped this schtick long ago Midnight_Pulp...keep sucking that Spur behind closed doors. Ha!
http://espn.go.com/
And they wonder why I criticize Kobe and question if Im a Laker fan.
"Peek behind the banners," says one longtime NBA agent, "and it's rotten.""Kobe is like the big rock in their front yard," says an agent who has had a Lakers client in recent years. "You can't mow over it, so you just have to mow around it."
Another agent with current Lakers clients was asked whether Bryant undermined the team's rebuilding by alienating would-be free agent recruits. "Well, duh," he replied. "Isn't that obvious?"
You could have dropped this schtick long ago Midnight_Pulp...keep sucking that Spur behind closed doors. Ha!
He's also just a few weeks' play from setting an all-time league record for misses. "The problem is, he's just not as good as he thinks he is," says one source in the Lakers' inner circle. "He's just not as efficient as he thinks he is. If he had the other intangibles, like LeBron, or if he was any kind of different person, it would have been easy for us to attract talent, retain it and win."
ouch
You rape what you sow, etc...
The time has come. Kirby is at a point where now the media ain't there to prop him up and to save him. Now it's time for the milking.
Just like A-Rod
Top notch article, top notch. A lot of quotable passages, truth for the masses once from ESPN. Well done, well done
I wonder what kind of gy picture he'll post on instagram in retaliation.
When Howard asked why his teammates let the injured center take all the flak when the Lakers' season went south, Nash said he didn't know that Howard had felt that way and that had he known, he would have acted differently. Bryant, on the other hand, offered a crash course in developing thick skin and a mini lecture on learning how to win. Sources told ESPN Insider Chris Broussard that Bryant's lecture was "a complete turnoff" for Howard.
Kobe
Yep, they're going to bury him like A-Rod, and I'm sure Kobe will play along to stir the pot. 48.5 is no skin off his back, and the Laker fans have to just eat it.
Fisher looked at the Lakers then as we all did: From Wilt to Kareem to Shaq to Pau to Boozer
Hey, did Kobe shout out your name? I havent heard anything....or was he just shouting out your name to the police department as you stood outside his gated community crying
Something strange tells me that you'll never, ever see an article like this written about #21.
I wonder why that is?
IF ONE COMMON denominator has persisted throughout Bryant's tenure with the Lakers, it is this: The blame lands elsewhere, and usually with teammates.
Three things:
1) As I said in the other thread, anyone who needed "inside sources" to learn this hasn't been paying attention.
2) The gloves came off when he called them idiots after they've done nothing but walk behind him picking up his in little blue plastic bags for years.
3) ESPN is probably upset with him for single-handedly killing the Lakers cash cow.
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And it continues
This. Kobe had a great thing going for himself. Chuck up all the shots he wants even if they lose, and the media will just blame his teammates. He bit the hand that fed him and pissed of ESPN, his most loyal supporter for years, and they seek to destroy him.
they called him last season's worst player in the league
I never thought I'd see the day when the media finally hopped off Kirby's , but here we are
Kirby's ego has finally ruined the part of his career that mattered most to him - the fake image/persona of the "clutch, tough, cold-blooded killer who only cares about winning" that the media helped prop up year in and year out.... way to where you eat, Kirbs
that should have ended the moment he Begged his wife to take him back..I never thought I'd see the day when the media finally hopped off Kirby's , but here we are
Kirby's ego has finally ruined the part of his career that mattered most to him - the fake image/persona of the "clutch, tough, cold-blooded killer who only cares about winning" that the media helped prop up year in and year out.... way to where you eat, Kirbs
Pretty much TOSB personified.
Seriously. Kobe has done a lot of damage to the long term standard by which he'll be judged. There have simply been too many problems in his career that are the direct result of him being a me-first asshole.I never thought I'd see the day when the media finally hopped off Kirby's , but here we are
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