i'd like to see L.A, win it all! Boston has won more titles than L.A; i kinda like Kobe!:shades
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i'd like to see L.A, win it all! Boston has won more titles than L.A; i kinda like Kobe!:shades
I dont like Kobe or lakers so I hope they loose, but should be a good series
i despise kobe. go boston!!!
Beat L. A.!!!!!
Grew up watching the celtics during the bird/mcHale/Parrish era...still have a sentimental attachment. Go boston!
WOW! NOBODY WANTS L.A.???:rolf
HUGE KOBE FAN RIGHT HERE!!!! (2nd best PLAYER EVER)
Love The Lakers!!!!
Hate Celtics...Rasheed wallace and big baby amd nate robinson annoy the fuck out of me...especially rasheed...fuck i hate him...
Kobe is a little bitch, great player no doubt...but due to that fact (and Phil Jackson is kind of a bitch) I'm easily rooting for the Celtics. Not that I will bother watching until if/when L.A. is on the brink of losing it or there is a game 7 either way. Not a Boston fan by any means either, but they are more tolerable I guess, to me.
I think The Onion sums it up pretty well: http://www.theonion.com/articles/nat...s-or-la,17559/
funny read...rasheed is a bench player...he shouldnt come in and get a technical...if i was a fan of boston id instantly hate a player like that....
ALL nba players act like they never commit a foul....boston players are just thugs and Talk SO MUCH SHIT and beat there chests and scream every chance they get...
and yes Kobe is the 2nd best player in nba history...behind MJ
Kobe is in no way, shape, nor form, the 2nd best player ever. I'd be hard pressed to put him in the top 10 even...hell, he wouldn't have even been the second best player of either the lakers or celtics in the 80's, lol.
There is a difference b/w second best, and ones second favorite.
name all others you would put above him...
As much as I hate Kobe, the guy is effing good. Easily top 10 all time and probably top 5.
I wish basketball would go back to being a mans game. I stoped watching it after a hard foul meant you'd be instanly t'd up....or players isntantly cry to the ref. for a little slap on the hand or every little bump and push in the lane. NBA reminds me of Godsmacks new song :shades
Jerry West, Oscar Robertson, Larry Bird, Pete Maravich, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Magic Johnson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Julius Erving, John Stockton, Michael Jordan.
edit: throw in charles barkley too.
And those are the ones I don't have to put any thought into....so yeah, he doesn't make my top ten.
Heck, even of those playing today or recently, I can come up with a few that merit consideration of being placed higher on the "greatest ever" list above Kobe: Iverson, Duncan, James. Not saying they are for certain, but it's at least debatable.
This isn't to take anything away from Kobe...this isn't to say he's a chump. He IS a great player, there can be no question. But not the second greatest of all time.
Barkley was phenomenal in his heyday. Hate to say it, he was actually underrated imo...you look at the impact he had on the teams he played, and also what he did with what he had. In my mind, he's undoubtedly the best of the small "power" forwards to ever play...which is saying a lot, considering that many consider elgin baylor to be the best of the small "power" forwards.
Just as Barkley couldn't do what Kobe does on the court, Kobe couldn't do what barkley did...and I consider barkley's feats more impressive honestly.
after seeing that list i guess we'll agree to disagree....
john stockton? great but not kobe great...
Lebron James? UMMM NOOOOOOO....great talent could be the best..not even close yet..