Player of the Decade by TNT

[ffadicted]

"It goes to show you the fans don't know anything" - Charles Barkley

lol @ TNT announcers ting on the fans and their ridiculous decision. LeBronze on second, timmy with only 8% and shaq with only 13%. Kobe with 57%..... Stop with this fan voting for everything please, casual basketball fans are the dumbest mother ers in the planet

[Darthkiller]

lol@ tim duncan @ 8% and 4th place. EPIC FAIL

[redzero]

>8%

[BRHornet45]

sons anytime you let people like ghazi vote ... my God

oh and we have also gone downhill ever since allowing women to vote as well. god bless

[crc21209]

lol@ tim duncan @ 8% and 4th place. EPIC FAIL

Yup. And the crew is right, the player of the decade is basically a tie between TD and Shaq. LeBron should not even be in that list period seeing as he didnt even come in till 2003...

[Pelicans78]

Duncan and Shaq clearly. Kobe only won 1 Finals MVP.

Kobe is number 3.

[Armando]

Yeah good idea there Taco Bell. Take the fans out of voting for a game designed for the fans. I have a problem with players and former players complaining about the people that put money in thier pockets. Get over it!

[spursfan09]

As a Spur fan I can say Probably Shaq wins.

[Armando]

Yup. And the crew is right, the player of the decade is basically a tie between TD and Shaq. LeBron should not even be in that list period seeing as he didnt even come in till 2003...

Well in that case blame the person that comes up with the ballot. Don't blame the fans. Same thing with the All Star. If you don't like AI getting all those votes then don't put him on the ballet in the first place.

[Mike D]

A very clear case could be made that the media should never vote for awards again either based on some of the laughable awards they've given over the last 10+ years.

It's a flawed process. The whole point of the contest was to get people to flock to a website, thus raising the number of views/price of advertising on the site, under the pretense of voting for a make believe award. Most people fail to realize it, and the NBA is who wins financially every step of the way.

[Armando]

You want a laughable award look back at how the 2007 MVP made the media voters look foolish.

[DJ Mbenga]

Yeah good idea there Taco Bell. Take the fans out of voting for a game designed for the fans. I have a problem with players and former players complaining about the people that put money in thier pockets. Get over it!

[Spur-Addict]

What will be annoying is the 300,000 idiots who will attempt to use this as an argumentative point. "Well, Kobe is the player of the decade. So, it necessarily follows that blahh blahh blahhhhh"

[Pelicans78]

I would have put Dirk over Garnett on that list. He's been more productive, and more success in the playoffs. Garnett was overrated in Minnesota. Even Pierce was named Finals MVP instead of KG.

[Allanon]

I missed it.

So who got Player of the Decade?

[ffadicted]

I missed it.

So who got Player of the Decade?

Kobe with 57%

lol

[Allanon]

lol

Thanks, II saw a post above with "Kobe is number 3" and I was confused.

[namlook]

Shows you how much Barkley knows. Shaq's game fell off too much the second half of the decade to be a player of the decade. Player of 2000-2005 was Shaq. But for the entire decade it's Kobe and Tim.

[Allanon]

But for the entire decade it's Kobe and Tim.

I don't have a problem with Kobe or Tim winning Player of the Decade.

Both were deserving.

[LkrFan]

This decade started in 2000. So, let's see what Kobe has done:

2000 - Ring #1
2001 - Ring #2
2002 - Ring #3
2003 - Historic 9-game 40 point streak, 12 3's in a game (NBA record)
2004 - NBA finals appearance
2005 - Lakers rebuild, only down year but still 27.6ppg 5.9reb 6ast
2006 - Historic 81-point game, 35 PPG scoring average
2007 - Historic 4-game 50 point streak, back-to-back scoring les
2008 - MVP and NBA finals appearance
2009 - Ring #4

Now I wouldn't mind seeing TD win it - I respect him, but not Snaq. Still, can't argue with Kobe's body of work. And to boot, he should have been MVP in 2006.

[Chieflion]

This decade started in 2000. So, let's see what Kobe has done:

2000 - Ring #1
2001 - Ring #2
2002 - Ring #3
2003 - Historic 9-game 40 point streak, 12 3's in a game (NBA record)
2004 - NBA finals appearance
2005 - Miss playoffs
2006 - Historic 81-point game, 35 PPG scoring average
2007 - Historic 4-game 50 point streak, back-to-back scoring les
2008 - MVP and NBA finals appearance
2009 - Ring #4

Now I wouldn't mind seeing TD win it - I respect him, but not Snaq. Still, can't argue with Kobe's body of work. And to boot, he should have been MVP in 2006.

Fixed and I wonder who spearheaded the Lakers squad in the early 2000s. Revisionist history at its best, Kobe fan.

[Killakobe81]

Kobe NOT a bad choice ...
But I think Tim 1st Kobe 2nd Shaq 3rd
Team though was Lakers ...

[Nahtanoj]

Fixed and I wonder who spearheaded the Lakers squad in the early 2000s. Revisionist history at its best, Kobe fan.

Kobe was the playmaker as well as the go to guy in the clutch during the early 2000s. He is not revising anything..

[duhoh]

well by fan votes, of course kobe.

[Chieflion]

Kobe was the playmaker as well as the go to guy in the clutch during the early 2000s. He is not revising anything..

I agree with the first statement, but Shaq was the de-facto number one, best player on the team, and the MVP in 2000 pretty much makes it so. Kobe = 2nd option on the 2000-2002 team. When he wanted to be the number one, his team lost in 2004. He looks like he is giving credit to Kobe Bryant for winning the championship as the best player, that wasn't the case.