The missing item on Kobe's resume? Defeating a champion...

I’m of the opinion that whatever he does he won’t be better than Jordan. He came into the league younger than Jordan did and has had more time to grow. He came after Jordan and has surely studied Michael’s great moves and tried to mimic/best them. Kobe won three of his rings with Shaqtus, who, is one of, if not THE greatest Big Men of all time. Kobe isn’t as good on the defensive side as Jordan was. Kobe sometimes isn’t the best at involving his team… etc. etc. That’s not to say he isn’t an amazing player, but there will never be anyother Jordan. Just like there will never be another Picasso or Jimmy Hendrix or “The Great One”. Oh & Go Celtics!!!

and of course there’s no mention of The Spurs…the “Best team of the decade” that the Lakers beat multiple times in the playoffs.

Sometimes the finals are decided in the conference finals. The East has tended to be a LOT weaker than the West over the course of Kobe’s career, but that doesn’t cheapen his titles. He had to go through good teams to get every one of them.

guarded Michael Jordan and Pippen carried the majority of the defensive load as he and Jordan mostly trapped up on the guards so as not to expose their weaker interior. Jordan also lost to all those teams before Phil Jackson came there and Pippen was given a bigger role so that point is mute. Pippen also had the lack of a benefit of a last second call that actually decided that conference finals and they would’ve advanced had it not been for that. He was also one of the best perimeter defenders ever and even better than Jordan at defense that is. He also made it to the Western Conference Finals only to get beat by who? Kobe and Shaq with on of the most infamous plays and end of game sequences in Laker Lore. The reason Kobe doesn’t finish like Jordan is because he has smaller hands than Jordan so palming the ball is harder to maintain than it was for Jordan. I’m not gonna touch the defense because things Jordan could get away with back then he can’t get away with now, plus if you go to youtube you can watch the possessions they played against each other and the only difference is their offensive game and defensive discipline to stay on the ground, which pretty much disappeared later as Kobe became one of the premier guard defenders in the early 2000s. Look at who Jordan played against after Larry Bird and the Bad Boys Pistons and the Lakers began to slow down. Jordan never beat the Celtics in the playoffs, he never beat the Bad Boys when they were still the Bad Boys and he beat the Lakers in their last hurrah with Magic far from the Showtime Lakers they were at that point. Barkley was lazy and he carried his team to the finals, but he was beat by the better team, not Michael Jordan. Hakeem never played him for a ship. Stockton and Malone always came up short themselves and Rodman is one of the best post defenders and rebounders ever.
Lastly, Kobe played with Ron Harper, Derek Fisher, Rick Fox, Robert Horry, A.C. Green, Brian Shaw, Tyronn Lue, Devean George, and John Salley for that first ship. Who other than Shaq and Glen Rice was not past their prime or was a role player at best? No one and even Glen Rice was a strict role player by then although I respect he gave up his stats to win a ship. There are no other hall of famers. This team is constructed the exact same way as the Bulls. Top-heavy surrounded by role players and shooters and Jordan definitely had the better shooters for longer years. His teams were better shooters. They were younger overall in the beginning, because he had more teams than just the ones in the late 90s. Basically, I’m saying that this argument is more legitimate than you make it. They’re both champions and they’ve both lost to better teams and they both have their personality flaws. Compare their games and their styles not their competition because at this point they’ve all faced the best you can get of their eras. What you’re arguing is that this era can’t touch those past eras. I’m sayin had the Bad Boys tried to play like they did or the Celtics did or any team tried that stuff now, they’d never win cuz they’d always be missing players for flagrant fouls cuz of the blatant things they did. In your eyes no matter what he does he won’t be better than Jordan because of the difference in eras, but I’m trying to tell you that had Jordan played against a Lebron, a Dwayne Wade, a Carmelo, not to mention defenders like Bruce Bowen, Raja Bell, Thabo Sefalosha, Shane Battier, Ron Artest who was actually on one of those Bulls teams, or any of the other premier defenders out here with the rules in place now, he’d have similar issues. Not saying he wouldn’t be Jordan, but it would’ve been harder especially since players now are bigger and stronger and more of the same mold needed to guard Jordan than they were back then because Jordan’s build was more of what athletes are like today than athletes back then.

I won’t watch a single second.

I keep meaning to put up a fan post this week titled “The NBA: Where Cinderella Doesn’t Happen,” but haven’t had the time yet.

…Never. Kobe will never compare to his airness. Michael was better in every aspect of the game. Name one thing Kobe Bryant does better then Jordan, you can’t do it.

The best part of that read is the “America F*** Yeah” video, because that will never ever ever get old.

Because he’s good? Because he “raped” somebody in Colorado? I just don’t get it.
You can’t use the “he whines like a little b*tch when he doesn’t get the calls” because everybody does it, including Carmelo.