this picture seems somewhat resonant, a pure moment before Stern and Kobe's corruption took over, pulling wool over the audience's eyes in order to recreate MJ 2.0
I said the same thing Jordan retired but the league has never been better with the influx of talents. This generation looks better than the previous class.
Lebron
Griffin
CP3
Durant
Westbrook
Rose
Howard
Irving
Stephen Curry
James Harden
Lillard kid
The next 5-8 years will be just fine.
But in terms of soul? The Kobe-KG-Duncan-Dirk-Iverson era was quite possibly the best in history.
Oh, I get it, you wanted to draw the line then. Then. Then. Then you wanted to draw the line. When it started though and it didn't concern you-you could not have cared less. Too bad, daddy. That train left the station long before Kobe came in.
this picture seems somewhat resonant, a pure moment before Stern and Kobe's corruption took over, pulling wool over the audience's eyes in order to recreate MJ 2.0
MJ recently said it best about Kobe's drive to win: "He's just as cursed as I was."
this generation is wack...dress like 's...ticky tack foul calls, can't take contact, all they wanna do is shoot, scared to speak their minds, afraid to clown reporters, afraid to challenge each other....no real love of the game....96-2003 was the
But, Kobe lives in the edge, in the land of vengeance. Jordan lives in the light. Kobe in the painted black. Kobe is the embodiment of the untruth. Jordan is like the rest of society/barters with the truth. Kobe can never return there. He outcast himself, even before the rape. The rape just cut the road back ever more. Something happened. Maybe he got dropped on his noggin, or, somebody played with his no-no secret place. Something.
tha pussy
I'd settle for the panties.
what happened is he played with Shaq...you know the larger than life presence...a non stop fire breathing dragon...a petulant man-child...constant picking at Kobe thinking he could duplicate the success he enjoyed of ruining Penny Hardaway's career...He left Orlando because he couldn't stand to share the lime-light with Penny whom many regarded at the time as the the Heir Apparent. Shaq was constantly jealous of Kobe...just like with Penny Shaq's hatred and jealousy of Kobe ran deep...Shaq got the media to hate Kobe by playing to their fickle nature of the MJ wanna be kid...Shaq got most of his teammates to turn on Kobe except Fisher and Horry...Face it..Shaq was the biggest thing since Wilt...so it was heresy to not side with him....Shaq did all of this during very formative years for Kobe...Kobe came right out of high school after having broke all of Wilt Chamberlain's high school scoring records in Philly...he never went to college to larn how to be a man when he ended up in a locker room with Shaq's dominating presence...I think Kobe wanted to be loved and wanted to lead but Shaq gave him a very rude awakening and kept him at bay...it wasn't until Kobe's dominance of the Spurs proved that not only did he belong but he was Shaq's equal...
Every pure basketball fan I know from back in the day regarded all those WCF games as the "actual and real" finals...those were the toughest match-ups against the Spurs, Kings, and Trailbalzers and Kobe performed superbly...while Shaq was so so...Shaq won the finals MVP's against weaker east teams after all the real tough battles in the WCF were over....Shaq didnt have the same consistent performances against Duncan that Kobe did...he also realized that Kobe was Dr. Buss's guy and so he had to roll with it...Kobe played the role of Magic while Shaq played the roll of Kareem and Shaq knew it...he hated it but he knew..that's why he subtly forced his way out...he knew Kobe had turned the tables and was coming for his ass when he signed that new mega contract...he had finally become a full grown man...and Shaq had to leave the kid wasn't going to stand by and take the abuse anymore...
These early demons are what drove Kobe and is what drives him today...He was never able to shake it...this is coming from a real and true Laker fan who's been there for quite a while....you can trust my understanding of how it all went down...
Do you think MJ would have the numbers he has today had he played with Shaq... naw...Shaq would have been fighting MJ tooth and nail...and MJ would have done EXACTLY what Kobe did..and say you I'm shooting this mutha er...sometimes you just can't contain that many larger than life presences' on the same team
This is why Kobe should have went to college:
Kobe stands up and goes face-to-face with me and says, “You always said you’re my big brother, you’d do anything for me, and then this Colorado thing happens and you never even called me.” I did call him. … So here we are now, and we find out he really was hurt that we didn’t stand behind him. That was something new. I didn’t think he gave a rat’s ass about us either way. “Well, I thought you’d publicly support me, at least,” Kobe said. “You’re supposed to be my friend.”
Brian Shaw chimed in with “Kobe, why would you think that? Shaq had all these parties and you never showed up for any of them. We invited you to dinner on the road and you didn’t come. Shaq invited you to his wedding and you weren’t there. Then you got married and didn’t invite any of us. And now you are in the middle of this problem, this sensitive situation, and now you want all of us to step up for you. We don’t even know you.” …
Everyone was starting to calm down when I told Kobe, “If you ever say anything like what you said to Jim Gray ever again, I will kill you.”
Kobe shrugged and said, “Whatever.”
If Kobe had not persevered and prospered after he ran Daddy off there'd be a case. But, that is not what happened. Daddy rang first. Kobe still encased in a fog from the rape got a late start, but, finally broke thru and took off after Daddy after he'd set him free, finally running him to ground in Boston where he grabbed him and them, took 'em back to Los Angeles and settled it.
So I'm on edge because I don't have a new deal, and Kobe is on edge because he might be going to jail, so we're taking it out on each other. Just before the start of the '03-'04 season the coaching staff called us in and said, 'No more public sparring or you'll get fined.'… Phil was tired of it. Karl Malone and Gary Payton were sick of it. …
So what happens? Immediately after that Kobe runs right out to Jim Gray and does this interview where he lets me have it. He said I was fat and out of shape. He said I was milking my toe injury for more time off, and the injury wasn't even that serious. (Yeah, right. It only ended my damn career.) He said I was 'lobbying for a contract extension when we have two Hall of Famers playing pretty much for free.' I'm sitting there watching this interview and I'm gonna explode. Hours earlier we had just promised our coach we'd stop. It was a truce broken. I let the guys know, 'I'm going to kill him.'"
^ by now the kid was so jaded he didn't trust anyone or anything..Shaq had it coming
tee, hee. Reminds me of that time in the playoff when Lionel Hollins got Tree Rollins pissed and Rollins chased him under the basket and Hollins got on the side of the stantia and kept running around with Rollins in hot pursuit. LMAO!
sounds like it was before my time....but I wouldn't want to fight a guy named Tree
LOL this dude.. is FABULOUS!!!
Don't know what Garnett's doing there. Seven straight first round exits in the playoffs and he had to sidekick his way to a ring. Iverson's probably the most harmful player in NBA history since he influenced a whole generation of chuckers like Monta and Jennings. And Shaq's the best player since Jordan followed by Duncan.
LOL this dude.. is FABULOUS!!!
The Kobe Face
Kobe in a Colorado bar, trying to go out incognito with white makeup
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