What makes you think Kobe Bryant is arrogant?
824551
He's arrogant because he's good, and when you're good you're arrogant, and you should be.
987841
I agree with you but all the Kobe haters will say hes selfish and needs to become a team player.
574241
Kobe is the most famous. He is probably not the most loved. Not the best attitude. Probably the most skilled, but everything in life isn't always perfect.
365107
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.
1031728
No, because he's going to realize that, while scoring all those points may be great, if he wants to win another ring, the Lakers need more quality players around him.  The dumbest thing Kobe ever did was running Shaq and Phil Jackson out of town.  Phil's back, but even he couldn't lead them past the first round.
860555
A mediocre player doesn't have the right to be arrogant.
876467
kobe is very much so overrated.he has no other high profile player on his team since shaq is gone.i dont like him b/c hes cocky, and a showoff.hes good,but mj was better.now give lebron a few more years and he mite be better.
196279
Either though he seems humble, he is cocky. He didnt even enter the dunk contest because he said that he wanted to give the people who dont get as many minutes as him a chance to shine. Everybody knows he can only do that same korny dunk he always does. Actually I do watch hoops and I play as well. Lebron does not have that big of a sclection of dunks as Vince or Kobe may have. He does same signature dunk in every game. He hangs back one handed and dunks it. Nothing particulary special. He would get murdered in a dunk contest.
515632
I KNOW!  He's such a jack@$$!  He gets SO MANY technical fouls.  He's ALMOST my least favorite player.  I think the reason he can't "shut up and play basketball" is because he thinks he's SO GOOD.  Someone told me that these fans Rasheed Wallace, but he ALWAYS refuses to sign any autographs!  Sadly, there are people out there who want his damn autograph, and not just to sell it.
1180324
Can we handle the truth??\n       \n      Towards the end of the 2005-2006 NBA regular season\nall time assist great and current ABC Analyst Marc Jackson \nremarked that, "Kobe Bryant will go down as the greatest \nbasketball player of all times". Perhaps the biggest credit to \nKobe's talents is that there was not as big of an uproar as one \nmight expected when ranking a current player above the legacies \nof Magic, Kareem, Wilt and of course the man that is currently\nwidely regarded as the 'greatest'. Michael Jordan. The truth is\nas human beings we all like to look at the past and gasp in awe\nbecause the past is brought to us in clips and articles\nand commentaries. Most of the younger generation of basketball\nfans don't truly know how good of a perimeter player Jordan was\nat age 26 or what Jordan did during the 88 season. They only\nsee clips of a magestic Michael flying high with that now patented\ntongue hanging out. They don't see Michael's struggles during the\n89 playoffs against Detroit, they don't see Michael's inability or \nunwillingness to pass during his mid twenties as he threw up 26-30\nshots a game nightly. Perhaps because they don't see these things\nthey also failed to see the obvious. Kobe\nBryant will surpass Michael Jordan at the rate that he is going. It is \nnot 'perspective' or 'opinion' from a Kobe Bryant fan, it is simple\nbasketball common sense. At age 27 Kobe Bryant is greater then\na 27 year old Michael ever was. Kobe is the better shooter, he has\nmore endurance and is the more fluid dribbler. Yes, the similarities\nare eerie. Kobe and Michael will bring the ball down the court the same\nway, they will elevate to same heights as they leave defenders looking up\nin dismay, and of course in the clutch they will prove ADIDAS's marketing\nslogan, 'Impossible Is Nothing'. Of course if people took the time to dissect\nand anaylze they will suddenly realize that Kobe do dribble the ball down\ncourt in the same fasion as Jordan, except Bryant does it with a little bit more\ngrace. More like a running cheetah as oppose to a running lion. Yes, Bryant\ndoes shoot that beautiful jumper in similar ways to Jordan except that Bryant\ndoes it a few feet further out, and yes Bryant does elevate and drive to the rim in\nsimilar fashion as Jordan except that Bryant finishes with that tiny bit more of \ngrace and style. Bryant will also 'mimic' Jordan in another sense in that he will\nmake bounds and leaps of improvement year to year that only Michael had done.\nA 27 year old Michael compared to a 33 year old Michael is no comparison at all.\nThe 33 year old Michael was a true master of the game. We will see the same \ntrend from Bryant. At age 33 Bryant will so elevate above his current status that\nwe will see a mockery of his former self. \n        What's the reason for this predication?\nWhat is to say Kobe will not go down the roads of Carter and Mcgrady? The \nroads of false contentment and injuries? When it comes to physical perfection\nBryant is the model of that for basketball. The words 'for basketball' should be\nemphasized in that no Kobe does not have the best 'body' in the league or the\nbiggest muscles. Yes Ben Wallace make Kobe Bryant look like a high school kid\nagain and yes Lebron James is probably the fittest 21 year old in the history of this\nleague. Neither of the two have that basketball body in which only so very few had\nachieved. A basketball player perfectly designed is not ripping with biceps or with\nchests of Hercules.  Shaquille Oneal might be the perfect example of that. Oneal\nis considered the greatest force to play this game in terms of sheer size and strength.\nIn his prime that size and strength render him almost unstoppable, yet at age 34( a age\nin which Jordan was still winning championships while scoring 30+ a night with ease)\nShaq is clearly running out of gas and s
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Basketball is a team sport, not a lone ranger sport.  Steve Nash is the leader of his team, and his success is clearly apparent through the improvements his players have experienced this season.  Kobe has to consciously try to be a team player, but he is a "me first" player and always will be.  I have said enough on this subject and will let game 7 speak for itself.  \n\nAll you Kobe lover boys should keep your mouth shut when the Suns hand you the pink slip on Saturday.
489590
I agree.  \n\nBusiness stand point:\nFor one thing, MJ is an icon and innovator.  He is a living legend.  He changed basketball.  That cannot be quantified in statistics.  He made basketball a money maker in endorsements and marketing.  People wanted to be "Like Mike".  I rarely hear pple coin the phrase I want to be "Like Kobe".\n\nPlayer standpoint:\nOkay, he was an outstanding player.  He made every teammate around him better.  Kobe can sometimes, but is too inconsistent.  Sometimes, he forces his individual game too much.  Kobe can make it in the clutch sometimes..but seriously...Jordan is the CLUTCH player.  And, he took retirement..came back and brought Chicago to championships again.  I mean how many players can retire..not play and then come back again?\n\nMedia standpoint:\nKobe has the Colorado scandal and is known to be somewhat selfish and arrogant from media and public.  He also dissed Shaq.  Jordan did not diss Pippen.  You gotta respect your teammates when they help take you to championships.\n\nConclusion: Jordan is the best basketball player and is better than Kobe by far.
1071713
Define player.\n\nHe's a bad team player by most standards, but his skills as an individual are incredibly refined and consistent.  His defense is improving, but he still hasn't reached Jordan's level.\n\nPut it this way.  I don't like the guy very much, but I'd put $ on Kobe in a 1on1 game with anybody that's ever played but Jordan.
351731
He strikes me the same way. Even his name "Dr. Phil" strikes me as arrogant and insincere: He wants to be an "everyman" and hence goes by the shortened version of his first name, Phillip, but he also wants to rub his professional title in your face. Unfortunately, as with most arrogant people, he is no more right or wrong than anyone else, but his arrogance makes his good advice hard to accept and his bad advice seem that much the worse.
1009960
I hate Artest. That guy has no skill, and shows off about his so called "skill". That guy is way too overrated. But I also hate Kobe and Dirk. Dirk has a anger problem and acts like a kid.
1129122
you guys dont know your basketball..\nkobe bryant is the best basketball player ever\nthat isnt an opinion\n\nif the question is "who is the best player in the nba?" its kobe bryant without a doubt\n\ni think he overcame more than anyone in this league and loves this sport more than anyone\n\nhe practices far more than a normal human should and i think that shows\n\nstat wise .. "oh hes a ball hogger" haha .. or the fact that he wont get a mvp award \n\nis because of his team\ndont even start with me\n\nkobe bryant overcame jordans accomplishments \n\nkobe is a better player than micheal \nwanna argue? i dare you\n\nkobe is #1\n\nlebron doesnt know a thing about defensive switches and weak offensive help\nhe isnt #1 now he is way too young \nbeing #1 doesnt look upon their stats .. rookies..\n\nwade is going to hurt himself he is skillful in SOME ways but in others he is ignorant and immature \nhe'll get hurt in no time as a.i experienced\nquote me on that\n\noverall\nkobe is #1 as of now\n\ndirk nowitski is getting there\n\n#1 - kobe bryant\n#2 - steve nash\n#3 - dirk nowitski
646288
i don't like kobe. he's cocky and thats not good sportsmanship. plus its all his fault that raja is out the game and he's just smiling and laughing about it. PUNK! i bet he wouldn't be laughing if raja was in the game slowin him down.