Do we hold Kobe to a higher standard than any other player in NBA history?

[Killakobe81]

MJ came to a team that had never won a thing and turned it into the most dominant franchise in professional sports for almost a decade. Kobe will never be able to make that claim. He had his chance. He could have gone to Charlotte and done for the Hornets what MJ did for the Bulls. But he didn't want to go there.

Who cares he can build on 3 le sthat is all that matters ...

[Bob Lanier]

league was MUCH slower then especially BIGS.

Kobe has better foot work

and handle

you cant say he is a better passer

[kingmalaki]

I know Pippen and Jackson have said it before, I don't remember Horace Grant saying it but that's obviously because he's not as famous as the other two. And I'm sure Kobe thinks he'd beat Michael playing one on one as well.

Kobe will never live up to MJ's legend. People won't let him. He obviously doesn't have the accomplishments (yet) and might never have as many as MJ has. If he ever does match him in rings/accomplishments and it would be a virtual tie, people would still give the nod to MJ just because no one likes Kobe because he "raped" some ty white girl, because he came after Jordan, and because people think he's trying to be MJ.

I didn't make the post to say MJ > Kobe or Kobe > MJ.

Tell me if I'm wrong about my assessment.

Pippen is one of my favorite players all-time, and I never recall him saying Kobe was better than MJ. Actually, if Pippen ever made that kind of statement it would have been major news for the time and very easy to find support of it. There is no need to create stuff to prop your boy.

[024]

lol at kobe worshipers whining about high expectations for kobe when it was them that made the comparisons to jordan in the first place. kobe fans are too much.