The only thing I hate is when your sister doesn't leave a fresh bowl of Quaker Oatmeal on the kitchen table in the morning after I rearrange her ovaries. Love me some Quaker Oats.
How appropriate that a Kobe nut-hugger can do nothing but spout the stale, baseless "hater" defense. Shouldn't you be on the ESPN boards?
Phil Jackson needs to say this once every month. A constant reminder to Lakers fans that Kobe will never be close to Jordan is necessary. Kobe is not the greatest. I would draft Hakeem over Kobe without hesitation.
Let's see, an in-his-prime Jordan vs a no hand check NBA + with a "flagrant foul" rule so you can't just whack the hell out of him (like Detroit & New York). He would get 40 a game EASILY! It would be laughable. People forget that Kobe played with (outside of Wilt Chamberlain) the most physical, dominant, and unstoppable forces the NBA has ever seen in Shaquille O'neal (in his prime). Kobe won titles when he wasn't even the best player on his own team. Jordan has ALWAYS been the best player on any pro team he's been on. So I love Kobe, but he's not Jordan. He got his five titles a little differently than Jordan got his six. But Bryant is a damn fine 2nd all-time.
ALthough I think Phil does mean this about MJ being better than kobe, i think he is purposedly talking to the media about it to fire up kobe and get a 3peat.
Look here, I'm hot cheese around here, and you are a stale chicken nugget on the Laundromat floor of life. Perhaps you should remove Kobe's jock from your esophagus, that 2-bit MJ-wannabe is clearly clouding your judgment.
If you mean damn fine 2nd banana and one of the best all-time at that, I'll agree. If you mean the 2nd best SG all-time, that's certainly debatable. But if you're trying to say that Kobe is the 2nd greatest player in league history, you're out of your freaking mind.
Kobe's career isn't over. This year will tell me a lot about where he belongs in the ranks amongst the greatest. Jordan only had 3 championships at age 32. We'll see how Kobe does at 32.
if you watched them both play, keep an open mind, it is easy to always assume jordan was the best based on the media and perhaps more strongly based on your initial loyalty developed for jordan, might take years for people to realize, but jordan is just a top 5 player while kobe is the no.1
Kobe was not the best player on his team when he won his first 3 titles. And Jordan is statistically better than Kobe, even though he played in a tougher NBA than Kobe does.
I hated Jordan actually. Couldn't stand his arrogance. But he was the best I've ever seen, and that sure as **** includes the Rapist.
Keeping an open mind and watching both, it's still very easily identifiable that Michael Jordan is still very easily ahead of Kobe. It's not so much light-years ahead, but there is still a gulf.
