It's the high school player syndrome in my opinion. Everybody who comes straight from high school without being in college at least a year has exhibited signs of baggery and a sense of en lement. High school basketball has and always was "pass it to the best scorer and let him lead the team to the championships" while college stressed the importance of running sets and playing team ball.
Kevin Garnett had this baggery
Lebron James had this in Cleveland
Josh Smith is just... Josh Smith
Kwame "pick me, and you'll never regret it" Brown
Dwight Howard's a mental midget
Andrew Bynum
the list goes on...
The point of this is basically that Kobe was and still is immature at every level, no matter how old he is. He can't ever own up to his mistakes and blames other teammates and wants his teammates to bail him out after he misses his shots. The present case with Dwight is just the same that every other big encountered: Shaq was pissed because he had to clean up Kobe's misses, Bynum hates Kobe for not giving him the ball in the post, and Dwight was just smart enough to not let Kobe blame him for losses anymore - plain and simple.
how can u claim to be the best player in the last decade only to have 1 mvp? his not undisputed best in the world
how many wing players would love to play with shaq, pau, howard but never had the chance and history will only remember them as choke artists, when those elite wing players are just arguable on the same level as kobe....
coat ride to 5 rings and trying to steal the credit of those wins
omfg Nelly
Yup....he truth bombs her OKC style and basically ends the discussion about why no one is coming to LA to play with Kobe.@ 9:40 they couldn't even say and change the subject to Dwight in Houston
Boiled down:::
Kobe: 5
the tired old bag Duncan: 4
Nelly, I'm going down down baby... Your street in a range rover ... Shimmy shimmy coca puffs ... Sorry didn't even click on links just saw the tweets can't take him seriously. DPG throwing MJ under the bus to give Nelly credit. Just sad ...
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Someone should telly Nelly you can't re-negotiate your contract under the CBA.
the white guy on that show was going to go zimmerman on nelly...
htf do you guys put up with sas, that clown is a joke
Not really. With the rise of Lebron James Kobe's legacy has begun to shrink, media throughout the playoffs consistently talked about how clutch Lebron is and how unclutch Kirby is with his 7-27 and no go-ahead buckets in the clutch since the PHX series in 06.
This will only get worse for Kirby stans as players like KD and Alpha continue to get better, people will realize how 80% of Kirby's career is sidekick status and how he only earned one FMVP in 09. So, unless he somehow sidekicks himself to the Finals and manages to steal the FMVP, he will continue to drop on everyone's all-time list to the point that even his stans will admit he's a top 20 player at best.
Pretty sure you can actually
• A new "renegotiation and extension" provision allows an existing contract to be renegotiated so the player is paid a smaller amount over a longer period, but the player's salary cannot decrease by more than 40 percent. Renegotiations previously could only increase a player's salary.
Citing viewer demand, NBA adds breaking Kobe’s nose to annual All-Star events
Orlando, FL--At the All-Star game Sunday night, league officials breathed a sigh of relief when the NBA’s new Kobe-punching initiative debuted to near-unanimous fan approval. Acting on the league’s behalf, Dwyane Wade broke the prickly Lakers star’s nose and sent the Amway Center crowd into a frenzied state of rapture.
“Hindsight being 20/20, we should’ve added breaking Kobe’s nose to All-Star weekend a long time ago. Fans have been begging for it since at least 2003,” says Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver. “We at the league office have learned our lesson, though. We’d like to announce that at each All-Star weekend moving forward, we’ll find a new and creative way to hit Kobe right in his arrogant face.”
The league plans to utilize social media to gather fan ideas for next year’s iteration of what NBA sources now refer to as Mamba Mash. According to Silver, “some fans want to see Kobe sneering at reporters, cursing like a thirteen year-old trying to impress some upper-classmen before receiving a stiff jab between the eyes. Others would rather see him freeze out key teammates and force up bad shots, glaring indiscriminately at anyone bold enough to share the court with him until some teammate gets fed up and delivers a knockout haymaker.”
Even if their preferred violence delivery method fails to get picked next year, Silver encourages fans to keep the ideas coming. “Fact is the guy is still just 33 and fan desire to see him physically harmed shows no signs of slowing; we'll have plenty of time to explore all of these options.”
Nelly with the goods, tbh, must be the money..
lol dude says "I've been getting nailed in the inbox"
Underrated moment in ESPN history. Just thought about this earlier in the morning
Ill always be a Kobe fan, but after all the history, this was the moment I just couldnt back him up anymore. After everything 'we' had gone through as a fan base, to see him do that was revolting. After begging Nash to come to the team and Dwight he immediately had to say it was MY TEAM
Nelly being a historian and a prophet at the same time.
Classic thread.
"This organization can ride on as if I never left" - Bryant
What a .
& Dwight ran away. He knew, Kobe knew in '09, but, the kids asked him and Mitch asked him to ferret out Dwight. He did.
It's the "as if I never left" that's like, considering yourself to be the savior of the ing world. Ironically once he leaves it will be as if he was never there.
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