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Is there a bigger Kobe sucker on this forum then Koolaids?
While there are many great players to have graced the NBA hardwood there's only a handful that should be credited with saving the NBA from collapse. Irregardless of what you think of these players personally there's not a single person on this forum that can produce facts that would disprove me.These guys are responsible for the league's success and skyrocketing player salaries...Thanks to these fellows...
Magic Johnson & Larry Bird - 1980's - 10 yrs
Michael Jordan - 1990's - 10 yrs
Shaq O'Neal - 1996 - 2006 10 yrs
Kobe Bryant 2000- 2015 ( + 5 projected yrs) 15yrs
First off Magic and Larry were the first saviors....they get credit for rescuing the league from a bad image, drugs, and poor ownership of the 1980's.
Secondly MJ - Rescued the league in the 1990's post Magic and Bird and became the first true iconic global brand
3rdly - Shaq & Kobe - 2000's- Just like Magic and Bird except they played on the same team. Shaq by virtue of his Goliath like qualities became a world phenomenon unto himself and a for the NBA...Shaq made us all forget about the MJ heir apparent...Shaq had the NBA world unto himself...until......Kobe came along....Now the race to replace MJ started again with Kobe...hate him or love him Kobe catapulted the NBA to unknown heights. While MJ was a global marketing brand Kobe became a universal figure...similiar to Michael Jackson.
The Euro's and Chinese didn't love MJ they way they love Kobe...MJ was loved at home while Kobe was loved abroad. Based on this alone Kobe has done more for the NBA from a marketing perspective than anyone before him.
Kobe 2000 - 2010 ( 2010 - 2015 projected) - Based on All-Star returns alone and NBA player straw polls Kobe is still the NBA's biggest draw and will be for the foreseeable "near term" future. If Dwight lands in LA as expected he will extend Kobe's window into my projection years mainly from 2012-2015...making Kobe the single most important iconic figure in NBA history.
Is there a bigger Kobe sucker on this forum then Koolaids?
2015, really? Kobe needs to pass the holy grail onto his successor durant already and just disappear like in indiana jones.
Kobe can win the next 2...but will need Dwight to extend from 2012 - 2015...My post is spot on...You may not like me but I speaketh the truth...
lol Koolaid, you should have been admitted to a psychiatric ward for such outlandish thoughts.
Why does this matter? You're too obvious of a troll.
Kobe saved the NBA from what?????????
And CROFL at Shaq
Once again, Kool delivers the daily crap.
Why not create a poll in which we vote the worst thread of the week? At the end of a year, a " poster of the Year" award for the most wins, with a le and all (that can't be changed for a full year).
vBulletin allows permanent le changes?
Kobe saved the NBA from what?????????
And CROFL at Shaq
From Mediocrity and Tim Duncan...ratings alone could prove this...and many of you don't know this but ironically David Stern is on record as saying that his top 5 players all time are:
- Magic
- Larry
- Michael
- Shaq
- Kobe
think about it...what player filled the MJ void...if Kobe wasn't there the NBA would have floundered similar to Magic and Bird holding it up in the 80's and MJ holding it up in the 90's..like I said you cannot disprove my facts...
absolutely not...if 5 rings is swagger-jacker then getting 6 will be straight up ski-mask robbery...what you fail to realize is that we measure greatness by les...all the guys I listed were not only champions but trendsetters...Lebron is nowhere near that so don't get life and bull ed up...Lebron couldn't hold up Cleveland so what makes you think he can hold up the league if he can't even beat Kobe out of All-Star votes while he ( Lebron) is in his prime and Kobe is past it...
this pretty much sums it up:
I'll say this ... Yao opened Asia (except Philipines they have always loved the NBA) and Kobe has been the most poular player internationally because of it.
But the assist come from Yao ...so Kool is not COMPLETELY off base here ...
If we're talking ratings champions then Nash and Ewing trump Kobe tbh.While there are many great players to have graced the NBA hardwood there's only a handful that should be credited with saving the NBA from collapse. Irregardless of what you think of these players personally there's not a single person on this forum that can produce facts that would disprove me.
Magic Johnson & Larry Bird - 1980's - 10 yrs
Michael Jordan - 1990's - 10 yrs
Shaq O'Neal - 1996 - 2006 10 yrs
Kobe Bryant 2000- 2015 ( + 5 projected yrs) 15yrs
First off Magic and Larry were the first saviors....they get credit for rescuing the league from a bad image, drugs, and poor ownership of the 1980's.
Secondly MJ - Rescued the league in the 1990's post Magic and Bird and became the first true iconic global brand
3rdly - Shaq & Kobe - 2000's- Just like Magic and Bird except they played on the same team. Shaq by virtue of his Goliath like qualities became a world phenomenon unto himself and a for the NBA...Shaq made us all forget about the MJ heir apparent...Shaq had the NBA world unto himself...until......Kobe came along....Now the race to replace MJ started again with Kobe...hate him or love him Kobe catapulted the NBA to unknown heights. While MJ was a global marketing brand Kobe became a universal figure...similiar to Michael Jackson.
The Euro's and Chinese didn't love MJ they way they love Kobe...MJ was loved at home while Kobe was loved abroad. Based on this alone Kobe has done more for the NBA from a marketing perspective than anyone before him.
Kobe 2000 - 2010 ( 2010 - 2015 projected) - Based on All-Star returns alone and NBA player straw polls Kobe is still the NBA's biggest draw and will be for the foreseeable "near term" future. If Dwight lands in LA as expected he will extend Kobe's window into my projection years mainly from 2012-2015...making Kobe the single most important iconic figure in NBA history.
hey Killa just fyi...that Kobe was holding up China way before Yao...in fact even till this day Kobe sells way more Jersey's in China...in Yao's own country than Yao himself and this is a dam shame...really
like L.L Cool J said ...they love Kobe more than a man who's 10 ft tall...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...289862830.html
Oh I know he was making waves there and in other countries before Yao. But my point is having Dirk in Germany, Parker in France, Manu in Argentina those guys get an assists for peaking interest in the NBA. Now once they are invested they can see as plain as day who the best player is and they dont need PER or sabre metrics to do it either. they love Kobe he has even more nicknames over there (Asia) then he does here ...hey Killa just fyi...that Kobe was holding up China way before Yao...in fact even till this day Kobe sells way more Jersey's in China...in Yao's own country than Yao himself and this is a dam shame...really
like L.L Cool J said ...they love Kobe more than a man who's 10 ft tall...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...289862830.html
yeah Kobe could go to each one their countries and take their shine and their Ho's away from em just like that...Kobe around and visit the Virgin Islands and they'll be like Duncan who?
Koolaid just pouring the truth out...Kobe is by far the most popular athlete in the NBA in the entire world.
That's because today's NBA sucks so much ass
He is really popular by default
thanks for coming out.
Truth hurts
But aloe soothes
this list is such horse . well actually you could make a case for Kobe/Shaq but that would involve logic and basketball knowledge and instead I'd probly get a laundry list full of sexual references and youtube videos so I'll just leave it at that
Yao's vote totals would argue otherwise
Yao's vote totals would argue otherwise
Dennis Rodman was more popular than Shaq during 96 and 97.
Tiger Woods was the most popular athlete. And he didn't even rape anyone.
I think it would be more like "Tim who?" because Duncan is his last name.
yeah Kobe could go to each one their countries and take their shine and their Ho's away from em just like that...
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