Ten-time NBA All Star. Eight-time All-Defensive Team Selection. Ten-time All-NBA Selection. Three-time NBA Champion. Two NBA Scoring Titles.
The list goes on and on of all the awards and achievements Kobe Bryant has reached in his 12-year NBA career out of high school. Now there's one more thing that he can add to his collection: A gold medal.
What more can Kobe Bryant do to get even better from what he is now with three championship rings, an MVP trophy, and a gold medal?
There's no doubt about it, Kobe Bryant is the best basketball player right now.
Yes, it is arguable that LeBron could be up there, but he does not measure to the level of greatness Kobe Bryant is at right now.
The way Bryant can take over and change the game is just unbelievable, just as he did in the Olympic gold medal game against Spain.
The game was getting close and Spain was creeping back into it. Although USA played an amazing game of "team basketball," in the end it was Kobe who got the ball most the time.
After hitting a three in a Spain defender's face and getting fouled he put his finger on lip and silenced all the believers that Spain had a chance. It was almost like he was silencing the basketball world and showing why he is the best player in the game right now.
With the way Kobe Bryant has dominated for so many years, and now that he is a world champion, it is almost impossible for people not to make the comparison to Michael Jordan now.
How could someone not compare them? There both about 6 foot 6 inches, both have won multiple championships, and both play the shooting guard position. Even now Kobe is still nothing close to MJ, but to be honest no one probably will ever come to close to being a Michael Jordan.
But that does not take away anything from Bryant. Because he might, just might, be the closest thing to the next Michael Jordan ,but at the same time he is nowhere near what Jordan did to the game of basketball. Just being compared to Jordan should feel like one of the greatest accomplishments for Bryant.
Another thing Kobe has to separate him from the other players in the league right now is his will to win.
He will do anything he can to win. It even dates back to his career at Lower Merion high school. His teammates remember that during practice, if someone would beat him off a move, at the end of practice Kobe would not let that guy leave until he tried to do the same move on him again.
Out of the many things a younger player can model after Kobe to go far in basketball, the best thing would probably be his hunger and will to win everything he can.
Kobe's will to win has showed multiple times throughout his career. Kobe has become the third player to score 20,000 points under the age of thirty. And the two others who also have done this are Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan.
Kobe Bryant also has the second-most points ever scored in a game (81 against the Raptors), and that is also behind Wilt Chamberlain. Bryant also holds the record for youngest player to score 15,000 points, youngest player to win a slam dunk contest, and youngest player to start a game at 18 years and 158 days. As you can see age has not held Bryant back from pursuing his dreams.
And dreams are what got Bryant to where he is now. Yes, he is blessed with unbelievable athleticism and strength. But he had to work to get to who he is now.
You get a lot expected of you when you are a Mcdonald's All-American and a National High School Basketball Player of the year, and Kobe Bryant didn't let anyone down.
Philadelphia born and Los Angeles made, Bryant has become a basketball prodigy. At only 30, he still has years left to dominate the league and keep showing why he is the best basketball player right now.
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Jamaal Foster 10 months ago
Great article and if I wasn't a Kobe-hater I'd agree with you. He's at his peak and anyone else I would name doesn't have the championships. Maybe Tim Duncan, but he's over-the-hill at this point.
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Moe T 10 months ago
MVP MVP MVP MVP MVP
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diya somi 10 months ago
kobe is the best player second to none. he also has something that other players don't have charisma. it was kobe that charmed the world. team usa impressed everyone at the olympics off court but it was because of kobe. kobe is admired all over the world. you know why, b/c he actually appreciates other cultures and other sports.
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Rodge Correa 10 months ago
I'm not so sure about that. I was thinking Dywane Wade... When the guy is healthy he can't be stopped. He's proven it throughout his short career and showed yet again in the olympics as the unoffcial MVP. I'm not saying he is yet but he puts up a fight!
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Ralph isaac 10 months ago
Look maine, Kobe is the best player in world. .But MJ is still better than Kobe: 10 scoring titles vs 2 for kobe, 6 league MVP vs 1 for kobe, 6 finals mvp vs 0 From KB
MJ is the man and always will be.
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B 10 months ago
Ya I know thats why i said Kobe is nothing close to him
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T R 10 months ago
Kobe hasnt finished playing basketball yet and he's only 30. Also, do you actually think if Kobe really wanted to win the scoring titles each year that he couldnt?? He could average 40 a game if he wanted to, who could stop him? If he won the scoring title each year everyone would complain that he's not a team player and all he does is shoot. He's damned if he does and damned if he doesnt.
Kobe will win a title without Shaq, trust me on that one. He's too great of a player not too.
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tone lowque 10 months ago
Gilbert could average 40 a game too. I'm thinking TMac, Wade, Duncan -- if you get a PG to do nothing but feed him -- among others.
It's whether those come in the flow of the game, whether those points keep a team together or leaves guys watching.
As for Kobe winning another title, I'm sure Barkley thought the same. So did Malone, Stockton, Ewing, Miller...
Nothing is given. Despite all he has been given so far, from the NBA, its marketing department, the refs, Jerry Buss and co., Kobe has to earn the next ring. His playoff performances actually suggest he may not.
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mc 10 months ago
i know ppl compare kobe to mj. there is no mj, but kobe is the closest thing. also you can't really compare them b/c kobe isn't finished yet.
i agree with diya, kobe is something special. what other person could recover from all the publicity mess. kobe has charm.
also love the fact that he loves other sports.
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yungCaucasoid ... 10 months ago
Who notices how no one ever dares to scrutinize the selfishness that Jordan displayed, continually, in order to have so many scoring titles...versus, how Kobe would never dare get *that selfish* and therefore doesn't have as many scoring titles?
The double-standard is eerie.
Almost as eerie as, how mad they get when you compare how many NBA players The Dream Team faced, enroute to the Gold Medal, versus how many NBA players The Redeem Team faced enroute to The Gold Medal.
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tone lowque 10 months ago
The funniest part of this is the fifth graf. Anyone else catch that? Writer starts off making it seem so cut and dry, and then slips in "Yes, it is arguable that LeBron could be up there, but he does not measure to the level of greatness Kobe Bryant is at right now."
You could argue it? You could argue after the Olympics that Dwyane Wade was too. How these games erase a near no-show in the NBA finals just a few months earlier, someone needs to explain to me.
All these games showed me about Kobe was that when he's forced to, he can play some team ball. His fourth quarter, nice as it was, borders on that selfishness we've come to expect from him. Seriously, was the team foundering and needed one guy to take over? Was there some lapse in offense? Isn't this the guy that is always preaching defense? How was his defense that game?
I don't think adding an Olympic gold "solidifies" Kobe's status, particularly given his impact on the game. Curious about stats. Check out Kobe's plus/minus for Beijing. He's 8th on the list. Number one? Wade.
I don't know how you determine the best basketball player on the planet or why that's even important, but I do know that right now who the best is in the NBA is debatable.
Until Kobe can do something to erase the stink from his recent stinkers in elimination games in the NBA, he hasn't solidified anything in my book.
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yungCaucasoid ... 10 months ago
tone,
as much as you probably hate to accept it;
That Gold Medal was unnecessarily close in 4th quarter. Which = a need of someone to take over. LeBron DEFINITELY didn't want it. Wade KIND OF didn't want it. Kobe saw that, so he seized the moment. Period. He played defense, like crazy, and had the *offensive end* on lock as well.
Lets not forget that he had *a hand-in* on 15 straight, 4th-quarter points. Period. And that was NOT he scored 15 straight. But, was a part of, 15 straight points. Meaning he was making things happen, for himself and others. Face this.
He showed why no player in the NBA is better than him. He went the whole Olympics watching The World, The coaches, The American People try to *play pretend* or hype or put, LeBron over him. He quietly sat back, in his reserve role, and waited for that moment where 'the truth spoke' in a way that couldn't be denied. Period.
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Nick The Only 10 months ago
Wade sunk the dagger. Kobe's 4 point play was nice, but Spain turned around and cut the lead to 4 points. Wade then made his 3 and extended the lead to 7 and the Spaniards never got closer.
Take off your Kobe blinders. Wade dominated the Olympics.
If it wasn't for Wade's 21 first half points and 4 first half steals, the USA wouldn't even have had a lead in the second half.
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tone lowque 10 months ago
No one is saying Kobe didn't have a nice fourth quarter. You can't debate that.
How it solidifies him as the be-all, end-all of basketball on the planet is what I can't see. How that showed why no player in the NBA is better than he also escapes me, particularly when you consider the following:
http://sonicscentral.com/apbrmetrics/viewtopic.php?t=1871&sid=c98721f28fad285c89f3a6cdc41bfbef
Also, good sir, kindly explain to me how Wade "KIND OF didn't" want to take over? Seems to me that he was playing in a system and that system was working. Was it close than it should have been? Sure.
My question then is, why didn't Kobe exert himself earlier to blow open a wider margin? Because he was in foul trouble and was paying tentative until Coach K told him to snap out of it. It reminded me of the Australia game -- Kobe's lefty lay-up around three Ozzies when you have open All Stars on the court with you.
Thank God the shots when down, but half of his points were clearly questionable choices.
Again, a fine fourth, but hardly one that puts to rest the question or should make anyone forget the stinker of a Finals he turned in.
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james 10 months ago
as for the moron who commented on jordan... get a life. jordan had 10 scoring titles but more importantly 6 scoring titles throughout his 6 championships... and he was the mvp of his finals every time. and u must be some fool who wasnt paying attention when they did bag jordan for being a hod and that a scoring champ couldnt win a championship. he showed them. Kobe is my fav player now.. but let the jordan comparrissons end.. he aint no jordan.. let see when hes retired how much closer he can come.. but thats it.
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dhruv shangari 10 months ago
I think the comparisons between jordan and kobe are invalid and ridiculous for many reasons. People often tend to look at career statistics when comparing these two and then comes the inevitable conclusion "Oh, Kobe isn't even close to Jordan". While Jordan was certainly better than Kobe, it really isn't the situation where "its not even close". You should consider that back then the NBA had never seen something like Jordan's complete package. How many all-around players of Jordan's caliber were even there in the league? So the NBA tried to sell Jordan as much as possible even putting him in the 3 point contest where he embarrased himself. But in Kobe's years, there have been Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady, Iverson, Lebron, Dwade and more who have the spectacular "superstar" abilities to match up with Kobe . Again, Jordan was drafted onto a bad, losing team with a lack of talent which allowed him to step in right away and be the leader. Even during Pipen's years, Jordan got the bulk of the shots and the "leader" tag. But Kobe was drafted onto an established championship contender in the 1996 Lakers. No coach would want to play a high school kid, no matter how talented, in place of Nick Van Exel (who was an all star), and Byron Scott , Eddie Jones etc. who were all veterans. So when you compare the two, you should really analyze before simply saying "its not even close".
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Gaz V 10 months ago
Your entire analysis here is "ridiculous". You think Jordan was the only "star" of his time? The only "all-around player" of his era?
You must be under the age of twenty, since you obviously have no clue about the skill level of players during Jordan's era. Check here for a start:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/50905-team-usa-basketball-yet-another-dream-team-versus-redeem-team-article
Although today's "stars" may be more athletic, in terms of fundamental skills most are pathetic. Tim Duncan is one obvious exception.
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Nick The Only 10 months ago
On any objective measure, Wade was CLEARLY the best player on the floor for team USA.
He outscored and outrebounded Kobe despite playing 5 fewer minutes per game. He shot so much better than Kobe that its not even close (Wade = 67%, Kobe = 46%). Wade was second on team USA in offensive rebounds. He also had more steals than Kobe.
And as someone mentioned earlier, Wade was #1 on the team in +/-. Kobe was #8 (which was basically the WORST of all the regular rotation). +/- is the ultimate indicator of a player's impact on the game.
Kobe did two things better than Wade: miss shots and play phantom defense.
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tone lowque 10 months ago
Here is the link:
http://sonicscentral.com/apbrmetrics/viewtopic.php?t=1871&sid=c98721f28fad285c89f3a6cdc41bfbef
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yungCaucasoid ... 10 months ago
nick,
try to lie, as hard as you can, Kobe took over in the 4th quarter...plain and simple. Wade knew, LeBron knew it, The World knew it. You Kobe haters are the only ones who refuse to accept reality. Kobe was downplayed, the entire Olympics. Still taking on the opponents best non-Center player. Wade DID not. Wade roll was to supply a scoring punch, from off the bench, to pick up where the starters supposedly left off/were cold. Period.
Kobe killed it in the 4th-quarter of the Gold Medal. Stop hallucinating. There's footage of the game to prove that you're lying to yourself. Kobe had a hand-in 15 STRAIGHT 4th-quarter points. Not Wade. Kobe had the MasterLock defense, not Wade. Wade got a few steals, which is great, in showing his quickness but Kobe was shutting fools down in that 4th quarter. Stop hiding from reality. Accept it. Embrace Kobe.
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tone lowque 10 months ago
Again, no one ever said Kobe didn't have a great fourth quarter. I'd question whether he was "downplayed" before that or just wasn't getting the attention because he wasn't playing particularly well. As the link above amply demonstrates, his overall performance wasn't legendary by any means.
So again, how the Olympics takes him unquestionably the best baller on the planet escapes me. One quarter of inspired play in a gold medal game doesn't atone for the clunker of a performance he had a few months earlier. In fact, it makes you wonder about it all the more. If this is Kobe Bryant basketball, where was it in the Finals. It's one thing to have someone like Wade carry a team for three quarters and then rise to the occasion. It's another to do it game-in game-out.
If anything the fourth quarter reminded me more of when Kobe was second fiddle to Shaq, as in the Pacers game, when Shaq had fouled out and taken much of Indiana's defense with him, and Kobe stepped up his play to seal it. Nice performance, but one only possible because someone else was carrying the team till then.
Just accept it for what it is.
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yungCaucasoid ... 10 months ago
No one else carried the team. Gold Medal featured LeBron having as terrible of a game, as LeBron was. Actually, LeBron started off more shakier than Kobe.
See, you're duped into hallucinating what you do, *because THE WORLD hyped LeBron, CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP hyped LeBron, THE NBA hyped LeBron as the Olympic team's leader*
Kobe simply shut his mouth, conceded to the hype, and stayed in the rear. Just like he did from 2000-2003 for The Lakers. When he showed up to do those things, that Shaq wasn't capable of. Period.
And yet, there's more truth you hate to have to think about;
After 3 championship rings, THE WORLD was calling Shaq the most dominating player in basketball...and what was Shaq's response? He just simple made sure that you knew, he felt that Kobe was *THE BEST player in the NBA* hands down. And he said the same thing at the start of the 2008 playoffs.
Same scenario unfolded for the Olympics. Kobe sat back, let LeBron soak up the spotlight and hype that folk like you loved to see occuring, yet...as soon as the Gold Medal looked threatened??
LeBron got out of the way!
And let Kobe show why he's the best player in the NBA.
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tone lowque 10 months ago
Actually Kobe didn't sit back; he couldn't make a shot. If anyone has a gripe about not getting his due, it's Wade who carried the team each game. But I guess you didn't bother checking the stats beause they may not cast Kobe in the best light. Here they are again:
http://sonicscentral.com/apbrmetrics/viewtopic.php?t=1871&sid=c98721f28fad285c89f3a6cdc41bfbef
No one is saying anything about LeBron. He played a fine game. But fact is, Wade carried the team.
As for Shaq, I get that the world thought he was dominant -- although he himself came up with MDE. Why do you believe him about that, when he's said that about Amare, Wade, himself?
Bottom line, how did the Olympics solidify Kobe's place as best on the planet? Did his good quarter make up for the goose egg he laid in the NBA Finals?
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yungCaucasoid ... 10 months ago
tone,
Kobe was designated as the THE DEFENDER of the opponents' best player. And thats from the beginning of the Olympics, and therefore making it irrelevant how much scoring Wade did each game, if you're not going to stop the other team's main scorer.
-Kobe did that. LeBron didn't. Wade didn't.
-Wade was fresh, wheras Kobe had just come off of 9 straight months of basketball. I like how you ignore that GLARING reality.
-Wade was the only person on THE ENTIRE USA SQUAD who had just rested for months and months and months. While Kobe showed up for practice, about 1.5-2 weeks withdrawn from an NBA Finals appearance.
So, keep ignoring that reality, all you want. It only paints your sports mindset in the questionable state that its in. I see that you hate reality, a whole lot, and it's starting to make debating you with...putridly unreasonable.
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tone lowque 10 months ago
Wow, Kobe was such a lockdown defender that Wade's scoring was just a bonus? Are you sure about that? Designated defended? Didn't look like it against Spain. But regardless, that means he can go 1-10 and it's OK?
No one is ignoring reality here. I am however, becoming aware all the little conditions it takes in order for Kobe Bryant to be considered the best on the planet. You have to give him some slack because he's tired. You have to overlook the overall domination of Wade statistically throughout Olympic play because Coach K ask Kobe to be a lockdown defender. You have to forget he was the leader of a team that blew a 24 point lead in the NBA Finals at home. You have to forget he led a team that got waxed in Boston in an elimination game, scoring 17 on 33% shooting.
If you overlook all this -- which seems to be to be ignoring reality -- then Kobe Bryant is the best player on the planet because of his fourth quarter performance against Spain? Really?
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Gaz V 10 months ago
tone, you should learn to ignore yungCaucasoid. He is pro-Pedophile in everything he says. Moreover, as you can tell, he knows nothing about sports. He only uses this forum to promote his pro-Pedophile mindset and views. Disgusting...
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yungNegroid 10 months ago
This is typical of the pro-Racist crap that gets published here on B/R. Coach K (yes, the guy who led this team for three years to bring back the gold!) gets no mention in this entire article or in the comments so far. Everyone here focuses on the exploits of the all-negroid team members, but no one mentions the man who returned America to basketball glory: Coach K.
Coack K was the 'man with the plan', the 'General on the field of battle who marshalled his troops'! Do people here mention that? No, they instead focus on the efforts of the negroid player Kobe Bryant who played one good quarter only. Bryant was a pathetic child who chewed out his teammates when he couldn't lead his team to victory over the Celtics, in case you forget. So, let's not sing his praises too loudly because he finally manages to put together 15 minutes of decent play.
Guess who focused and brought his 'A' game every quarter of every game of every tournament for the past three years? Certainly not Bryant! It was Coach K.
In the NBA, when a team performs badly, the typically non-negroid coach is the one who gets blamed and is fired. But, when a great non-negroid coach like Mike K devotes three years of his life bringing glory back to US Basketball all you monkeys talk about are the overpaid, chest beating, self-promoting pawns on his chessboard.
Tell me that is not Pro-Racist agenda with a straight face!
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Unknown Unknown 10 months ago
I bet YungNegroid and YungCaucasoid are the same person.
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yungNegroid 10 months ago
yungCaucasoid is a lame pretender who simply promotes the same pro-Racist crap that gets published here on B/R. All he focuses on are the exploits of one overpaid, self-promoting negroid player called Kobe Bryant, who was a pathetic child who chewed out his teammates when he couldn't lead his team to victory over the Celtics, in case you forget.
A couple of other key differences between yungCaucasoid and myself:
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yungNegroid 10 months ago
(1) I can write full, grammatically-correct sentences.
(2) I actually know something about sports.
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yungCaucasoid ... 10 months ago
Unknown,
thats an insult. For you to even insinuate that I could be *on my own scrotum sac* that hard. the writer posing as yungNegroid, is simply, someone who I have ripped to shreds and exploited so many times...he can't even sleep at night anymore. So, he had no choice but to disrespec this site with is mockery games.
So, take heed, of how impactive my veracity is when exploiting the pro-Racist mindset. Until, it's moved to execute acts like these.
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yungNegroid 10 months ago
Dear Unknown,
What you have suggested is insulting. The writer posing as yungCaucasoid is simply a lost soul who has been tormented by the ugliness of his misplaced beliefs. He is now haunted every waking hour by the searing memory of my vengeful spirit. As a consequence, he resorts out of desperation to games of deception, hoping to confuse you all through his cheap chicanery.
Heed the penetrating and enlightening power of the truth I preach in exposing the pro-Racist mindset of yungCaucasoid and his evil disciples on this site. Until I have achieved my mission, those darkened by the cloud of ignorance are moved to execute acts such as these.
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yungCaucasoid ... 10 months ago
yungNegroid,
heed the Impact, of he, who drove you out of your mind to mimic/mock me with this login. You're hurt. You're wounded. Your pro-Racist pride has been pummeled. You lost self-control. You were too too cowardly to use your regular login, to debate the validity of my posts. Because you toiled in perplexity with each contribution of mine that exploited you.
So, you created this login. To show other writers here *how empty* your reservoir is, versus me. You hate a world where *Equality reigns* in sports-information reporting, so you lost self-control and created this login. You hate a world where White privilege is exploited, so you lost self-control and created this login. You hate a world where you're made to feel inept, when expected to use your original login to pit your arguments against xenophobic rhetoric I exploit, so you lost self-control and created this login.
I like it too.
I think it's the pinnacle of all compliments, to how impactive I have been in exploiting you Inequality-lovers here, on this site. So thanks for the pom-pom-presentation, in the form of a "yungNegroid" login you created.
OH YEY:
since your IP-Address can be linked back to that same *original login* of yours that you cowered from posting through, then...Anticipate a psychiatrist to correspond with you, under you "original" login...cool? In the meantime, stay off of those 'Suicide Hot-Lines' because I promise, everything will be okay. You can be delivered from the delirium that I motivated. I apologize. Just please, don't go and hurt yourself.
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yungNegroid 10 months ago
Do you have an original thought? If so, please share it. Your predictable replies have grown rather tiresome.
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Gaz V 10 months ago
yungNegroid, I like the name.. :)
You must realize that yungCaucasoid is only here to accuse others of a pro-Racist mindset. It's about all he seems able to write about. The guy/girl rarely has anything new or interesting to write beyond what you read above. Same old stuff, over and over again.
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yungCaucasoid ... 10 months ago
Gaz,
come on pal, get real, you've enjoyed dyckrydyng anything you see on this site posted, against me. You have felt the wrath of my sports knowledge, when you lamely attempted to criticize me on issue. So, please, go find someone else's socks to suck.
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yungCaucasoid ... 10 months ago
yungNigg,
You really really really have some nerve. You went and created a login account dyckrydyng my entire essence, mimicing me, and even copied my profile to show readers how much you covet my entire style, yet...now you have nerve to challenge someone about *being original* here??
....hahahahahahahahahaha
say you're only kidding--------please!!!!
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ty y 8 months ago
There is really nothing to debate. The players knew what time it was. when the team was in a close game,coach k didn't ask wade or lebron to save them,he asked kobe. coach k himself has been quoted as saying thank God kobe saved us. People can try and downplay it all they want but the proof is right there for anyone that wants to see it. I can admit kobe was the man,and I am a lebron fan,but first and foremost I am an American team fan. Like it or not if kobe had not stepped up we would have the silver medal right now.
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tim mcdavid about 1 month ago
kobe bryant is the best basketball player in the world as of right now. Obviously Michael Jordan is the greatest of all time but right now Kobe is the best. Lebron is really good right now as well. He is not near as good as Kobe is yet. Lebron will be better than Kobe in about 5 years or so. KOBE IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MVP 24
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tim mcdavid about 1 month ago
Kobe will win the 2009 NBA Championship against LeBron James. The Cavs dont have what it takes yet to win it all!!! In the end the top 3 basketball players ever to play the game in this order will be 1. Michael Jordan, 2. LeBron James, and 3. Kobe Bryant
Kobe is unstoppable
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tim mcdavid about 1 month ago
people that dont like kobe and think he isnt the best right now are stupid and obviously dont know basketball!
FAGS!!!
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