Screw Kobe.
This guy hasn't been good for 4 years. For 4 years.
Forget, just for a moment all the shots he took. But for 4 years the Lakers have been precluded from getting a star that would take shots he may hypothetically take if wasn't injured.
What kind of warped world do we have where Lebron is pilloried for wanting to play with great players, and Kobe is a "legend" for holding his franchise hostage as his own private sports fantasy camp for 5 years?
5 rings? Sure he was there but he was arguably not the best player on any of the 5 teams. He inarguably was not even close to the best player on the 1st three. Gassol had better win shares the other two times. 5 rings? If he wasn't such a selfish baby he could have went after Bill Russell's 11. He works things out with Shaq, he gets to 7 or 8,before he is 30, easy. Easy. Even Jerry West, long a Kobe apologist, now admits Shaq went the extra mile, but Kobe bristled at even acknowledging Shaq was a good player. This fraud then has the nerve to publicly condemn a series of team mates for not fitting in.
And Mr. Clutch? From the article linked below:
With Nike, he created Kobe The Closer[emoji769], a cold-blooded, crunch-time messiah, never mind the fact that he made a mere 37 percent of shots in the last two minutes of a game to either tie or take the lead. Statistics are for eggheads who can't recognise greatness
Jeter was a self important over rated media manufactured annoyance, but if he had acted like, and been allowed to act like Kobe he would still be at SS batting leadoff.
Seriously what is the baseball stat equivalent of taking 467 3's while making 28.5%? I mean he was 6th in 3s attempted while being far below any threshhold where you be considered being allowed to even take any 3s. I mean this is 2007 Julio Lugo batting cleanup. It is hard to argue he even belonged in the league this year. If he had an ounce of integrity he would have stopped playing after the first two months. but, he is the quintessential egomaniac. Donald Trump looks at Kobe and thinks, 'Wow that guy has no shame, I hope I am never so self important.'
50 damn shots?
"Mamba out" when the T-shirts have already been made.
I love guys that train hard, that are nasty, that want to shoot the ball. So at one time Kobe was to me a guy for young guys to emulate. "Believe in yourself, be nasty, get in the gym" At one time I thought he had the chance to be better than Jordan, he was a better shooter. But at that zenith he made one decision, like a series of forced shitty shots, after another that were all about him. Jordan is and was a lousy human being, but he made concessions to his ego. Jordan's fire was directed to winning games. Kobe's was always more about Kobe.
Screw him and his sham of a last game.
http://rollingstoneaus.com/culture/post/kobe-bryant-goodbye-to-the-nbas-all-time-asshole/3598
