Give that man the props he deserves man He's the nicest since Jordan. Best footwork and body control in the NBA. He hit 2 clutch shots today. Not 1 but 2 Kobe haters.
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hell yeah...he is the man!!!\nLaker rules!!!\n\nSun is weak now!!!! Laker will kick their ass at game 5
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I hate Shaq. He is so over rated. You would think after being in the league as long as he has you would possibly be able to make free throws. He fouls like you said every time he backs some down in the paint. I consider him a turd that comes out of my ass with arms and legs. I wish someone would pull a Nancy Kerrigan on his on him. I'm a huge Kobe, and Artest fan because they play defense as well as put up points. Yea they have had their share of incidents but they play are complete players!
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Its the Lakers and Kobe fault. KOBE suppose to be the MVP. Mr. 81 points man. THe superstar. They choke badly. They been beating the Suns all that time and couldn't keep it up come on. Its manly Kobe to blame. You the MVP of the team, you suppose to take the over the game when the team is in that big hole. Thats what great players do. And people calling him the next JORDAN or better than Jordan. PLEASE. T-Mac and the Rockets last year was down by over 10 points. T-Mac took over and score 13 points in 35 seconds AGAINST THE SPURS. SUNS dont play defense. He had over 7 minutes to make a big comeback. KOBE know his team wasn't hitting nothing so he should've taken over like great players do. Like Bird, MJ, T-Mac, AI, Magic, Oscar, Hakeem. Good LORD,  Anthony Johnson, took over for the Pacers to try and stay alive in the playoffs. Yeah they lost but you got to admire that he did was trying to pull off a victory.
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One of the criteria for NBA MVP should always be making one's teammates better. Nash does that. Kobe does not. He's made efforts before in the past, but it never lasted for very long (see his 81-point "performance") I'm speaking from the standpoint of a former Laker fan who was a fan until they traded Shaq. And before anyone calls me a "bandwagoner", I was a fan during the "Showtime" era and continued watching through Magic's retirement and through the Shaq & Kobe era until Kobe got Shaq traded. Also, an MVP never skulks off the court without so much as a congratulations to the winning team.
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Kobe has the biggest ego of all time.  Still, he is money at the end of a game, or at clutch moments
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I know Michael Jordan has done it several times. Kobe did last night. I'm not sure who else but I'm sure others have. You can probably get a more complete list from NBA.com
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Well he talked a little too much about Jerry's hit...sure it wasn't that neccisarry but .....if Shaq's daughters could hit him harder....and he said it felt good.....then y did he try to get up and kick the shit out of him if dwayne didnt hold him back....hes lucky that would have been his second technical....but i give him props good jiob with the free throws
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critics say the nets have too good of a trio. who cares bout rj, j kidd, and vc. the pacers got their own trio. jermaine oneal, peja, and stephen jackson. tell me which player on the nets were ever close to winning a mvp race? tell me which nets player can single handedly take over a game like JO. the pacers play a half court set, that the nets do not like. just watch for the pacers to play great defense and slow the ball down, and pound it down low to jermaine oneal. oh ya, jamaal tinsley is back. go pacers!
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It was beautiful - Kobe tried to win it by himself, and of course the Lakers lost.  It was also great to see Jack Nicholson trying to put a useless hex on the Suns - he is the next most annoying Laker after Kobe!  I hope Kobe goes for 60 points the next game.  \n\nBut enough of Kobe.  The Suns were awesome - what a gritty effort with so many things going against them.  That's what a championship team does.  Go Suns, believe in yourselves!!!
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I'm a person who doesn't like Kobe and it is not because of the Colorado incident. That has no bearing for me on what kind of player he is. To me he is not a team player. To me he is a ball hog.
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I think what all of you are saying is BS.  First of all, about the rape thing... he was found innocent if you remember.  And about being a ball hog, thats what he has to do to win games!  Lamar Odem had two concecutive triple doubles before the Suns game tonight anyway, so obviousley other people are scoring and he is passing it.  But if his team wants to win, Kobe has to take shots.  And if he makes a lot of the shots he takes, which he obviously does, then it's fine in my point of view.  Kobe is an amazing player, and the most like MJ in the game today.
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Got to be T-Mac. Why? I don't like Kobe at all. To me he is to selfish during the games.
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Manu is a multi- fasted player. He can hit the three and remember he drives to the left. On Defense he is great at getting offensive fouls on the other team and also he can steal the ball consistently.He is an excellent player my friend.Yesterday against SAC Game 4 he had 27pt.8reb off.rebounds(9 in all),that proves your point!
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he shoots, he scores! 2 points
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A clutch shooter can get the shot not only when he is wide open and his team is up by 20, but gets buckets when his team is down by 2 with seconds to go and he already has two defenders on him.  IMHO, Robert Horry is clutch.  In a big game, he will bury the three that wins the game and he has done it several times in his career.  Kobe is nice and he has been clutch on several occasions, but i need to see him do it for a little while longer before i consider him to be a GREAT clutch shooter.  He is VERY GOOD, but nor great. Yet.\n\nAll time clutch shooters?  There have been many, but I could make a strong case for two in particular (oddly enough, they wound up working in the same franchise)--Larry Bird and Reggie Miller.  I hated the Celtics growing up and was a huge Laker fan. (Anyone who graduated high school in the eighties knows what I mean)  But give credit where it's due--L. Bird was lights out.  Ask Knicks fans about Reggie Miller, and they just cringe.  He probably more than any other single player is the reason Patric Ewing went title-less :-)  \n\nSeriously though, I'd rank my clutch shooters this way:\n\n3.  Steve Kerr and John Paxon (or was it Paxton?)<tie>\n2.  Robert Horry\n1.  Larry Bird and Reggie Miller <tie>
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All I have to say is I like the Lakers but they do need a rebounder/shot blocker like Ben Wallace and some pure shooters off the bench like Steve Kerr was before they can compete for a championship. See as good as Kobe is the game was lost on defense. People say Kobe shoots too much that is bull. He can have 90 or 10 and they could still lose. Because when you have a defensive pressence in the paint it's not as easy to drive in and dish out because the other team knows that they got someone in the paint ready to block the shot so they have more time to guard the perimeter too. Then they don't have pure shooter who can drain over 50% night in and night out if Kobe were to dish it out after he drives.
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First of all, Kobe Bryant is the best player since Michael Jordan, and even in their primes, if they played one on one...I would lean towards Kobe...he plays a totally different game than anyone else...he takes it to the rim when he has to, he dishes it out when he needs to, he goes up for the rebounds, and most importantly of all...he puts the team on his shoulders and and carries them to victory...\n\nPeople will tend to say that without shaq Kobe wouldn't have gotten those rings...that may be true but without Shaq, the Heat wouldn't be the number two team in the Eastern Conference...he's a one in a 100 years player, there won't be another like him anytime soon (shaq that is...) Kobe can't do it all, all the time though...he's proved he can win games squarely by himself...ala 81 point games and numerous 60 point outings as well...one more player would make the Lakers a true title contender as well...The thing about Jordan was that he made the players on his team better...well if you look at the players around Kobe, he makes them better as well, Lamar Odom is good but he's not almost triple double average good...Kwame Brown never really produced until he got to LA, now he's almost averaging a double double, smush parker is an up and coming point guard...wonder why?  They need a true big man to push them over the top...\n\nI'm glad you asked this question because I feel the exact same way, but I've gotten used to all the Kobe haters.  He's a one in a life time player and everyone knows that, it's just that he got a bad rap after the whole rape incident and it was proclaimed that he ran phil jackson out of town, but miracuously he is back coaching them...it was "supposedly" his doing was the reason Shaq wanted a trade...people just don't understand, Jordan came around and was a one in life time player that never made mistakes...except reportedly using drugs...but everyone looked past that because he was a nice guy...that's not the case with Kobe, he's not a jordan esque player, but he's just as good....\n\nOh by the way, just tell whoever comes at you with this arguement...ask them who else averages 35.0 points a game...see what they say about that...