so basically you are throwing in the towel
resignation accepted thanks for playing
It also never said it’s not based on how many burgers they can eat in a meal. So you can assume they do. Got it.
so basically you are throwing in the towel
resignation accepted thanks for playing
Take it how you want. Given your total lack of logic so far, I’m not surprised you got to this conclusion.
ESPN list isn't awful but there are too many agendas. For example overrating current athletes because it will be used to sell current product.
Few seem to still trust this brand. It's a shame. Most of us grew up on it.
well considering the article is littered with dozens of comments on different athletes are focused on the impact the athletes had on their respective sports, seems like my logic was just fine. factual, actually.
obviously you didn't read anything, you just got butthurt over nothing
They can state all they want but the criteria they set off wasn’t it. Which makes this a bad list. Get it?
not sure how having a legendary and gamechanging impact on a sport isnt an accomplishment, or doesnt have anything to do with their performance
seems more like you are sticking to your own interpretation of what "accomplishment" and "performance" means, as opposed to how the writers of the article viewed it
but have fun crying some more about it!![]()
So now it is legendary and game changing which by definition is subjective interpretation, but I cannot have any interpretation. But hey, you can define what the writer wanted but not anybody else.
I know you had to cry your way out. No need to announce it to the inter webs.
Not only shaq and duncan, but pretty much every player who is associated with Kobe comes up worse.
It’s generally mental gymnastics by kobe stans.
Kobe is better than shaq because 5>4, essentially 2>1 because shaqobe was equal in the threepeat. Nevermind shaq won an mvp and all three finals mvp during that span
Kobe is better than duncan too
But how would kobe and shaq, who are both better than duncan, end up only 3-2 in their head to heads during that span? Well it’s because the other players suck. Karl Malone and Gary Payton were over the hill and they are no match for rip Hamilton and rasheed. Players like Rick fox, and Robert Horry are bums. And the entire failure of 2004 is due to devean george.
So what about the horrible 05-07 stretch? Well, Lamar sucked, Caron butler didn’t even exist and we can pile all the blame on smush Parker and Kwame brown, as in every other low seed in the entire nba are filled with superstars like Chris Kaman and Quinton Ross.
How would such a phenomenal player like Kobe not dominate the nba with that frontline in the late 00s? Well because mvpau didn’t put on his big boy pants even though he led the lakers in multiple advanced stats, Lamar odom sucked because he just does and Andrew Bynum don’t like basketball.
But then how did the lakers miss the playoffs six years in a row when it only missed the playoffs 5 times in the previous 60 years? Improving the year after kobe retired with a dreadful roster led by the likes of Jordan clarkson and Julius randle? Um… those years never existed.
Also, Phil Jackson sucks. Rudy T is the worst coach ever.
Pretty much the only person who came up well in this entire thing is Derek fisher.
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That's only because MSM thought Daddy was gonna best Kobe on the ring count...and went all in. Kobe catches a hanger in Florida in '09 and Fisher vs. Boston in '10 and all the sudden it's 5-4 Kobe. Mind you, MSM didn't have to go home, but they had to get the outta there.
In reality it was all a put up job the entire way. Daddy & Kobe were never estranged, swapped baby sitting chores with each other, on & on. But it made great print for the s MSM...Like Ruth & Gehrig, Bette Davis and Crawford, Mantle & Maris...all lies for commerce sake. Made a fortune.
...and Kobe because for once in his career, probably life he listened. 13 down 3rd quarter out of a TO Fisher Dutch Uncled him..."Stop whining!!! GD it!!! Go down into the paint and play defense. NOW, GD, NOW!" What did Kobe do? Dropped that game face for the first time in his life and did as he was told.
It's was Fisher's finest hour,,,Kobe's too...and honestly painful to watch because we'd never seen him in honest panic mode. As the end came into focus, victory for the taking, he was in agony. Nothing was hidden. Like Daddy on the restraining ropes in Indiana looking for his pa...that look of panic on his face. Took all the fun out of it. I just eased on back into the Lazy Boy.
Thread, we all know you just make random rules on the whim to push your agenda, no matter how illogical those rules are. If you want to do ring count solely in measuring a player in a team sport, be my guest.
That was the rule when Boston had the con. That.was.it. Nothing we accomplished would count until we beat them for all the marbles. me. I obeyed. I mourned, I cried, I pissed, I moaned. And I made peace with it in full knowledge that I'd never get off the snide. Ever. Lo & behold Magic took us to the promised land in June of '85. Well, of course the Celtics in close association with the MSM decided that it wasn't that big of a deal after all. Anybody that got to the dance didn't have to worry about finishing. tee, hee.
No, we ain't a gonna do that, kids. No. I swore then 39 years ago in Cleveland that everybody is gonna abide that original rule. I arrived in Phoenix and have been enforcing said dictate for the past 38 years. And that's just the way it's gonna be. That's how we started and we ain't goin' back. Ever. It's my religion.
But peculiar to Daddy & Kobe it was a set up job as I have delineated. But of course we didn't find that out until AFTER Kobe had the 5-4 count. See, MSM is shrewd, they grudged Trump his Pre...I mean they grudged Kobe those 2 rings because there was no upside to him having the count advantage. Daddy didn't suffer well in front of the nation. Kobe was a natural, especially after the rape. So once Kobe had the advantage and it gonna hold we were told that Daddy and Kobe were really good buddies, baby sat each other's children, loved one another unconditionally. You know, amb:::yada, yada, yada.
I love when MSM gets thwarted, the crooked s bas s.
And because that's how MSM does it and guides "you" to do likewise...then when the jig is up MSM leave "you" sittin' there with your your hand. I've been there, had my in my hand wondering why the I was by myself all the sudden when MSM was sittin' there before I blinked. Easy, MSM had changed direction and left us holding said s.
Until trump is involved then it’s all rigged machines and lizard people.
Trump did that. He made President. That's all it took.
I'm fine with Phelps number 1 tbh... for the rest this list is awful
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