Sporting News Poll: Who Is The NBA Athlete Of The Decade: Kobe Or Duncan?

[duncan228]

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Who is the NBA athlete of the decade: Kobe or Duncan?

Sporting News magazine is preparing to name our athletes of the decade in each of the seven sports we cover: NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, college football and college basketball. And we want your input, as well. Cast your vote below and check out the results in an upcoming issue of the magazine.


The results at the moment, 1739 votes in.

Kobe Bryant 1003 58%
Tim Duncan 736 42%

[DJB]

Vote that up

[lefty]

Wtf

[xtremesteven33]

2 MVP's
4 les
3 Finals MVP's


Duncan over Kobe right now....

[Nathan Explosion]

How is this even a contest. One played second banana to the most dominant player at the time. The other lead a franchise to the best winning percentage of the 4 major league teams since he arrived.

One toiled in mediocrity once dominant big man left. The other hasn't missed the playoffs once, and has bowed out in the first round only once.

Finally, one nearly ripped a team apart, while the other has done everything (from taking less money on a contract to taking a backseat offensively in the Finals when another player have a HUGE matchup advantage) to keep the team together.

[Thompson]

Kobe is not the athlete of the decade over Duncan; that's ridiculous.

Someone help me throw the poll, I keep deleting cookies and voting again, but I'm seeing 2 more votes for Kobe for every 1 vote I add.

[Russ]

Interesting question by ESPN --NBA athlete of the decade?

Not NBA player of the decade. Or NBA MVP of the decade.

Does the question suggest the answer (as is so often the case with polls)?

[Nathan Explosion]

I threw in the "Duncan has a higher winning percentage than Shaq and Kobe" argument. Don't think Kobe lovers will buy it. Stats can be misleading, but winning isn't one of them. Duncan wins games. He's so good, he got Gino and Parker in the top 15 of all time when they didn't belong.

[duncan228]

Someone help me throw the poll, I keep deleting cookies and voting again, but I'm seeing 2 more votes for Kobe for every 1 vote I add.

Same here. It counted my first vote, but even with cookies cleared I haven't gotten it to count another one.

I put it in the Duncan forum too so as many people see it as we can raise here.

[duncan228]

Results at the moment:

Kobe Bryant 1056 56%
Tim Duncan 831 44%

[peskypesky]

I just put Duncan ahead.

[Knoxxx]

Same here. It counted my first vote, but even with cookies cleared I haven't gotten it to count another one.

I put it in the Duncan forum too so as many people see it as we can raise here.

I'm going to go ahead and reinstall windows so I can get another vote in for Tim.

[peskypesky]

I'm going to go ahead and reinstall windows so I can get another vote in for Tim.

[cobbler]

Kobe is not the athlete of the decade over Duncan; that's ridiculous.

Someone help me throw the poll, I keep deleting cookies and voting again, but I'm seeing 2 more votes for Kobe for every 1 vote I add.

So sad.

I would vote for Duncan over Kobe as of now in their careers. With that said, I also think Kobe will end up with the better resume when it is all said and done. Time will tell.

But to go to the extreme of cheating to raise the numbers in a poll. Wow... simply pathetic and ohhhh so insecure.

[mrcoon29]

Kobe Bryant 1192 49%
Tim Duncan 1237 51%

[duncan228]

I'm going to go ahead and reinstall windows so I can get another vote in for Tim.

I voted. How long with this last?

It doesn't say anywhere I can find.


Go SpursTalk:

Kobe Bryant 1198 48%
Tim Duncan 1306 52%

[honestfool84]

KB 47%
TD 53%

[cobbler]

I wouldn't call it cheating, I'd call it making sure the right player wins by any cost.

Whatever. However you spin it.... it's pathetic regardless.

[peskypesky]

Not really. I find people who take time to call other people pathetic over things that are not really pathetic are pathetic.

But thats just my opinion.

I think people who have opinions are pathetic.

[Phenomanul]

...

[Sense]

As much as I know Duncan deserves to win this poll.... I'm surprised he is.

[peskypesky]

So by that logic people are pathetic? I agree.

the Buddha has no opinion.

[Sense]

Kobe Bryant 44%
Tim Duncan 56%

[Brazil]

Question: Who is the NBA athlete of the decade?


Kobe Bryant121044%

Tim Duncan155056%

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[peskypesky]

Did you know him personally? I think he died around 2500 years ago.

the Buddha cannot die. the Buddha is waiting inside each of us.