GitarooMan
Member
Lol this made me laugh harder than it should have.
-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
NBA player says he beat another pro baller, in a game that never happend.
- Thread starter Odoul
- Start date
- Status
That was the one year Kobe didn't have another all-star on his team and yeah, he handled it like a complete child whilst the rest of the league just moves on.
so basically, he just got really really mad and ran out the best player that he ever had, had an "I'll show you!" year, got mad that he was alone, then took it out on everyone around him. Kobe.
He's still my favorite player, but that doesn't mean that I'm NOT going to say he's made stupid decisions and benefited immensely from playing with great players and coaches his whole career. McGrady broke his back playing with scrubs and Kobe talked shit about rookies in the parking lot and gets anyone who isn't down with him run out of town.
lol do you know something we don't? shit
after the whole "2 other men's semen found in her panties" thing came out, settling out of court seemed like winning. also, he wasn't found guilty. its not like ben where he's been to court twice for separate occasions of himself and women... just sayin
I will say, I can't defend that >_>
He's a face cummist, according to police records.
BadAss2961
Member
MJ built the franchise.
LeBron is more talented than anyone ever, but is of weak character.
Kobe's had various great big men to help carry him to championships. He now has Dwight, Gasol, Nash, and is struggling to make the playoffs.
Having dantoni makes your statement irrelevant
Ghost_Protocol
Member
The hit or the flop?
Herpes Reasons
Banned
mj never passed the first round without pippen. just syaing.
lebron deserted an entire state to be a wade's robin.
I can only give you the years when he was with Shaq, as he wasn't the number 1 guy on the team. Those other 2 ships he had Pau, but what other top 10 player in the history of the game haven't had help? MJ: Pippen, Magic: Kareem, Worthy Wilt: Baylor, West You can literally do this for any star that has won a championship.
It's not like playing with a Power Forward or Center suddenly disqualifies you from being as good a player as others
KidA Seven
Member
Baconsammy
Banned
None of the rings were won in truth-telling contests.
LiveFromKyoto
Member
In the world where Kobe's a Finals choker, so this one.
Are you counting on everyone forgetting the "It's on me!" thing from the 2007 playoffs, or did you just forget it?
Absolutely.
crimzonflame
Member
Vince Carter > TMAC > Kobe
How bout bosh?
TheKaeptain
Banned
That's the difference between Champions and losers. Champions don't take losing very well. Losers accept it and sink into obscurity.
But so were a lot of championship teams as well
Pippen was a top 5 SF
Wade was a top 5 SG
Worthy was a top 5 SF
Kareem was a top 5 C/PF
How about him?
More like McGrady and dozens of other great players know that they won't start the season with Shaq next year and instead they'll have to look forward to Pat Garrity and Gordon Giricek.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Championship teams are just that. Teams. MJ had fucking Scottie Pippen ffs. Lebron went to the Heat that had a HOFer in Wade and brought Bosh with him.
BadAss2961
Member
I'm not arguing against it taking help to win championships, but some have had/needed more help than others. MJ had Pippen, but he was always unquestionably the leader and built that franchise. LeBron was expected to do the same for Cleveland, but couldn't, and bailed to a super team.
Kobe's Lakers clearly fell off once Shaq left. He wasn't even a serious championship contender again until Gasol came over AND Bynum started to become a presence. I also remember thinking that Gasol could've been awared their last finals MVP.
Exactly. The Kobe hate is absurd.
What are you arguing?
Because non-championship teams are in fact -not- championship teams. Kobe's has played with an abundance of talent for all but maybe 3 years of his career. That doesn't just make winning easier, it makes longevity easier.
lol kobe is my favorite active player
you can't criticize people that you like?
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
Kobe teo'ing
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
lol how did I know this would be the T-mac Kobe thing.
Heres the full interview btw
This is the more newsworthy part actually.
Also I did not know this:
Heres the full interview btw
This is the more newsworthy part actually.
Also I did not know this:
You can nit pick any great player to death, so come on with this silliness. Kobe's career has proven far better than T Mac and the vast majority of NBA players.
lol how did I know this would be the T-mac Kobe thing.
Heres the full interview btw
This is the more newsworthy part actually.
Also I did not know this:
During Kobe's run with Shaq, look at their w/l when he wasn't played and then look at their w/l when Shaq wasn't playing.
TheKaeptain
Banned
If you can't see the slip you're blind.
Nah Dwight is going to stay for one more year. Hopefully Buss gets over the fact that Phil is giving his sister penis and hires the man. If they don't get Phil back Dwight will be gone after next season. The Lakers biggest problem is that they don't have a coach that can keep all of them in check.
First off, Kobe never had to do what KG, McGrady, Iverson, and a lot of that generation had to do because he never had to play 1 on 5 for entire stretches of his career. That's why he's been around for so long. He's only had to put a team on his back for one real season and he was clearly not about that life after seeing how things played out. Saying that Kobe had it easy and able to preserve himself by playing for the Lakers is simply acknowledging a fact. It'd be like saying that QBs have it easier playing in today's NFL and the existence of a "hitters parks" in baseball - these things exist. By not talking about them, you can't make them go away.
Red Blaster
Member
"I almost won an MVP with Smush Parker and Kwame Brown on my team"
"I missed the playoffs with Dwight Howard and Steve Nash on my team"
"I missed the playoffs with Dwight Howard and Steve Nash on my team"
Psychological Intellect
Banned
I'd say Iverson is the only one that had a 100% pure garbage supporting cast. KG and McGrady had some decent role players.
BadAss2961
Member
"I almost won a championship with 4 HoFers on the same team, plus the greatest coach ever. But we lost to a team with no superstar."
Wendel Clark
Member
kobe is like the insecure internet nerd of the nba
The ultimate problem with arguing sports is that it always comes down to woulda-coulda-shoulda.
If you want to go by the book, it's inarguable that Kobe was a much more successful player. Most likely better.
If you want to play the one-upmanship game, then you can debate irrelevant points forever.
No one is saying Kobe didn't take any Ls in his career. But he's a first ballot HoF with a fine ass wife who'll take him back admid many instances of cheating, while McGrady is getting sonned in China.
And he's currently having the best (most efficient) season of his career while the other all-star talent around him is having their worst, and their coach is completely lost.
If you want to go by the book, it's inarguable that Kobe was a much more successful player. Most likely better.
If you want to play the one-upmanship game, then you can debate irrelevant points forever.
No one is saying Kobe didn't take any Ls in his career. But he's a first ballot HoF with a fine ass wife who'll take him back admid many instances of cheating, while McGrady is getting sonned in China.
And he's currently having the best (most efficient) season of his career while the other all-star talent around him is having their worst, and their coach is completely lost.
Players who get the focus of opposing teams more and have to shoulder larger loads of their team's needs breakdown faster.
Madness
Also, lol at "his fineass wife taking him back". Vanessa has Kobe by the balls financially and he knows it.
T-mac is getting shat on in the CBA these days. When those guys are giving you the mutombo finger Kobe won.
LOL that finger wag then the flop. Amazing
I guess that's what happened with that girl in Colorado too, right?
youngplaya21
Member
Does anyone in here believe that Kobe can easily beat Lebron in 1v1? Because kobe said that in the same interview, and that sounded even more absurd than the Tmac comment
Psychological Intellect
Banned
bron would run him over
KidA Seven
Member
- Status