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Kobe ran off the best player he ever played with (Shaq) and constantly belittled the second best (Pau) and even in his old, and supposedly wiser age couldn't even make peace with Dwight Howard. He's ending his career as king of an irrelevant team. Which is exactly what he deserves.
The Satanic Principle from Milton's Paradise Lost.
It's better to rule in , then serve in Heaven.
Fits Kobe pretty well.
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Prepare for the Jeter-like ass-kissing that's about to take place the rest of the season.
Never was a fan of his persona, character, or the selfish way he played the game. Kobe was however one of the most talented and fierce compe ors to ever play, why lie. I always enjoyed the games between the Spurs and Lakers growing up. man, we're talking about these games that began in the late 90's. Not gonna lie I got the feels when the announcement was on twitter. Part of my childhood growing up watching this beautiful game gone right there.
I can't imagine how it'll feel when one of the big three and/or Pop retire. It'll be 1,000,000,000,000x worse.
People always feel the need to bring him down. I get that kiddies try to paint him as the second coming so its obvious there would be reactionaries, but he was pretty great back in the day.
There will be a dark cloud over the city of San Antonio for a long time, the likes of which hasn't been seen.
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Let's see what all these teams give him as a parting gift.
Spurs should dress Bowen and let him guard Kobe. If not, matching Kawhi's minutes to his should suffice. Would love nothing more than an 0-for shooting night.
Would you say Duncan is a post-Madonna?
No lead ever felt large enough when he was on the other team. It was scarey what he could do in his prime.
I would pay good money to have gotten to see Kawhi guard prime Kobe. I don't think anyone Kobe faced in his career had the combination of gifts Leonard does (not even Artest or Bowen in their primes), and I don't think Kawhi has ever faced someone as gifted offensively as prime Kobe was.
Another fun one would have been Kawhi against prime Manu. Although then one would have to be on another team, which isn't cool...
Hopefully you guys can attend his last games in SA when Kawhi makes this retire 2 months early tbh.
Glad he is gone ... his battles with George Hill were epic though
Never liked him or respected him. Will never forget him disrespecting Duncan when he won those two mvps by saying they should have been his. He ran his mouth '02 about Tim winning the MVP and then the same in '03. That's was part of the reason why winning in '03 was too sweet just to see him in tears. I will give him this easily the most hate able player in NBA history. There is no player I have enjoyed seeing lose more than Kobe so I will say Kobe you were the greatest NBA villain of all time.
I would have loved for him to drag the Lakers franchise down a few more years. Hope he puts a few good games together at the end of the season and decides to cash in the 24M next year.
so now he's on his look-at-me Farewell Tour?
GOAT attention . In terms of basketball though, he barely cracks the top 10 of his own contemporaries (I'd take Duncan, Dirk, Lebron, Durant, Curry, Nash, Garnett over him... can you imagine what any of them would've accomplished paired with Shaq? Oh and Shaq too of course).
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