Kareem on Horrys Historic night...

[SRJ]

It's an honor to be misquoted by you, whottt.

[01Snake]

Don't cry Murdoch. You're still and always will be legend!

[mystargtr34]

Kareem is a ... he does come across as classless just from reading that little bit.

Makes me laugh.

[clubalien]

Nope, didn't forget about him at all.
I met him too and me too think he's a nice guy, but he didn't get HIV infected because he was filling all those hotelrooms with his class.

hiv from blood transfusion or is he gay?

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Pretty lame and weak comments by Kareem, but then again he is a Laker.

[PlayoffEx-static]

Does Kareem acknowledge that he never would have had the record had the Russell Celtics used the same format as his Bucks and Laker teams? Sauce for the goose.

What an ass. This is why he has no job in the league. This is also why Rick Barry has no job in the league. I'm sure neither of them has a clue.

[ShoogarBear]

I'm saying definitely missed the playoffs as the best player on his team...

Something that may or may not be true of Oscar...but definitely isn't true of Magic Johnson.


I'm also saying that I don't necessarily think he was the best player on any of his championship teams.


Magic certainly did better with the Lakers without Kareem than Kareem did with them without Magic.

Well, I don't think there's any question that he was the best player on the 71 Bucks. And anything you can say about Kareem without Magic goes double for Oscar without Kareem.

Having said that, Kareem is an aloof, prickly personality and has always been that way. He is also a complicated, introspective person who insn't given to absolutes or empty pla udes. I doubt he was trying to dis Horry; he's just not the type to give anyone effusive praise.

[pauls931]

In all seriousness, Horry is not half the player Kareem was. They shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence. Horry has been a role player that thrived when he was on a team with a dominant center. Remember when he was in Phoenix? nada... Kareem dominated up to 1984 and then played about 3 or 4 pathetic years after that. You could build a team around kareem, not horry.

Horry has 2 people to thank, Hakeem and Tim... Without them he'd be Eric Piakowski.

edit: Horry can still run?

[PlayoffEx-static]

In all seriousness, Horry is not half the player Kareem was. They shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence. Horry has been a role player that thrived when he was on a team with a dominant center. Remember when he was in Phoenix? nada... Kareem dominated up to 1984 and then played about 3 or 4 pathetic years after that. You could build a team around kareem, not horry.

Horry has 2 people to thank, Hakeem and Tim... Without them he'd be Eric Piakowski.

edit: Horry can still run?

He was wioth Phoenix for half a year, and I don't think I was ever more fond of him than when he threw a towel in Ainge's face. Well, OK, THE SHOT in 2005 was better, but nothing else.

No one is saying that he's a better player than Kareem. He's just one of the MOST clutch playoff performers in NBA history, and probably deserved congratulations from KAJ instead of excuses about numbers of games played. As I stated above, if the Celtics had played the formats that Kareem did, he never would have gotten the record from Russell after 11 championships.

Yes, he was a role player, but I think that up to three of those rings don't happen without Big Shot Rob. He hit at least one HUGE shot for Houston (SA), LA(Sacto) and SA(Detroit) to propel them to series wins in championship years.

[pauls931]

He was wioth Phoenix for half a year, and I don't think I was ever more fond of him than when he threw a towel in Ainge's face. Well, OK, THE SHOT in 2005 was better, but nothing else.

No one is saying that he's a better player than Kareem. He's just one of the MOST clutch playoff performers in NBA history, and probably deserved congratulations from KAJ instead of excuses about numbers of games played. As I stated above, if the Celtics had played the formats that Kareem did, he never would have gotten the record from Russell after 11 championships.

I agree he's clutch, before getting thumped by the Spurs I had to tolerate the Rockets and got to see plenty of his shots. I just see him getting this record as being a result of being on the right teams. Somehow whoever had the most dominant center, horry found his way to that team.

Forgot about him having to thank Shaq too. Horry had to be on the team with the best center to function.