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Last Sunday when Kobe raised the Larry O'Brien and the Bill Russell (Finals MVP) trophies, he proved why he is still the best player in the world. The entire playoffs and the entire series Bryant proved why he is still better than LeBron James.
Talk about a man who has gone through so much adversity through his entire career. From the sexual assault case in Colorado to unfairly being blamed for running Shaq out of town. Kobe has been hated the most by people than any other player in the history of the NBA. But he answers the hate every time.
Kobe has been the best player in the league for about three years now and even in 2003 you could make a case that he was the best. But there are a lot of people that still hate Bryant for his past. They hate the young arrogant, cocky, selfish Kobe Bryant. Judging a man by his immature past is totally unfair. A lot of it is again the media always knocking Bryant. Just like they did with Iverson they do not want Kobe to be the face of the league. But Bryant too is forcing them to make him the face of the league for the last three years by putting up sensational numbers and last week by winning his fourth ring.
It is pretty clear the the league wants James as their No. 1 guy because he is not the way Bryant was when he was younger. LeBron is shown as the nice guy. Bryant probably knows this and this is what drives Bryant everyday. He gets up 5 a.m. every morning to workout. He wanted to be the best and now he is the best and he wants to maintain being the best. When Bryant started averaging 35 ppg they said he needs to pass more when he passed more they said he should score more. It was getting extremely unfair for Bryant. Last week Kobe proved people wrong once again. Even though it was silly saying Kobe could not win a title without Shaq he still got that monkey off of his back. Shaq would never have a ring without Kobe or D-Wade and all the haters know this but it was just the only thing they had left against Bryant.





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