Does anyone else dislike Kobe's #24?
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Well, I dislike everything about Kobe inside out, from his ugly face down to his selfish, arrogant attitude...\n\nWhat's not to dislike about him?
39366
He's been okay.. I guess.. He's been only scoring around 14 ppg because kobe's been scoring 30+ ppg. (that's been the largest gap between a team's laeding scorer's in a few years) He's just not been a prolific enough scorer that's why kobe needs to take all those shots.
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Literally the only reason the new NBA ball is bad is that we have to listen to all the whining and complaining about the new ball. A very small minority of players complain about the ball. Anyone that does is just being a baby. There are just as many players that have come out and openly said they love the new ball. Its just a matter of preference and the whole issue is overblown.\n\nESPN had an article not to long ago which breaks down a bunch of stats so far this season on FG%s and TOs and such and found that FG% are in fact slightly up so far and TOs are actually down. (Disproving Shaq's (the biggest baby of all) that the NBA will set a new record of TOs this year because of the ball.)\n\nAnd Ive seen every Laker game so far.... and Kobe's scoring is down 1. cuz he just had knee surgery and he's obviously playing not 100% healthy and 2. he's playing more within the offense.\nIf Kobe's scoring is down cuz of the new ball, then Kevin Martin must LOOOOVE the new ball. (10.8ppg last year to 23.2ppg this year.)
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The number change does nothing but let the NBA market a whole new set of Kobe Jerseys... that is why he did it. Kobe may be the most talented play in the NBA but after his whole problems in Colorado I have no respect for anything about him other than his talent to play ball. What about Stoudemire? Once he heals and gets back into basketball shape the Suns are going to be monsters in the West. I believe that they will make it to the finals.
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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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I Dislike Kobe but... I'm pretty sure he'd take that one...
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because in his mind, he's been there and done that. everyone knows he's a flashy and entertaining dunker. now, he's more matured and wants to be labeled as a player who wants to win, not show-boat...btw, i am not a kobe fan, but i would love to have him on my team which is the Warriors.
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I am sick and tired of seing posts about kobe......I can't stand him....
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There's no rule against all three of them retiring his number.\n\nThe Lakers certainly will retire #34.  That's absolutely a given.\n\nShaq was the best player in Magic history as well, so far. They might eventually retire his number.\n\nDon't know about the Heat... let's see how long he plays there.\n\n\nSeveral players have had their uniform numbers retired by more than one team:  Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Nate Thurmond, Clyde Drexler (Houston and Portland), Oscar Robertson, Julius Erving, to name a few...
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Heck yeah I'm not a fan I think he's too much of a thug but he lost weight, got quicker jumps much better looks better on d,more consistent with his shot. Maybe he'll drop that thug tag too after he got rid of hi drug dealer friends. Not too many people in the NBA have a mid-range game like Melo does.
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poor kobe he thinks hes better than magic jhonson ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha kobe sucks ....
1060246
Yeah, Kobe Bryant already has a stigma attached to him, stating that he's a bad guy and he forced out Phil Jackson and Shaq a couple of years back. Plus, Dwayne Wade is more fan-friendly nowadays and more marketable, and the media see this and don't jump on him when he takes so many shots. It sucks because Kobe is 100 times better player than Wade.
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There's no telling how many points he can score - I hate Kobe, I think he's an arrogant, selfish, worse ball hog than Allen Iverson - but he's one heck of a fantastic scorer - I hate Zen-boy Jackson, too - but, they seem to work well together - I think Kobe will get 60 tonite....
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.
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OK bro I'm a answer your question because I know what you mean. Firstly I think a lot of people comment on the NBA and don't know much about it. They know stars and commercials and what others say and they might watch some games but they don't know in depth stat analysis. For example most of these people making these comments are making them as if they only started watching Jordan when he returned from retirment the fist time when he couldn't really average over 33 anymore because he slowed down physically. Secondly they don't like Kobe because he's a good looking black dude married to a white girl or almost white girl that's way hotter than any girl that ever liked them. So many whites would like to beleive that he's a rapist because it reafirms there superiority complex that a good looking black man would want to rape an average white chick just cause she's white which a lot of people know is complete BS. Because I'm sure some playboy bunnies have tried to throw panties at him. Kobe is not a perfect player but neither was Jordan, and I don't think anyone can say that they have seen a player never make mistakes on the court. Jordan's shot to win his 6th championship was an offensive foul. Yes Jordan was my favorite, and Kobe is the best right now and he is very unfairly judged by people who act like it doesn't hurt the man. How can you run around calling someone a rapist if he might not have done it? You know what that must be like for him? Kobe is the best hands down and these people are ruining his career, and I hope some fairness prevails in the end. The only thing that Kobe needs to improve is instilling confidence in his team mates, but irregardless he is the best in the NBA. His dunks look better than Lebron's. He shoots better and has a nicer handle. How exactly people are hating on this is beyond me. I've seen Kobe do stuff that Lebron will never do and people can scream Kobe's a rapist and Lebron is MJ till they are blue in the face but it won't alter the truth. That being that Kobe is the best since Jordan and even if he fails from here on out it's because he is being mentally abused in this country right now. Just say he didn't rape that girl. O.K. because of what he really didn't do he deserved to be robbed of the MVP award and his commercial pressence? And Shaq never got along with Penny Hardaway either that's why he went to the Lakers! And last year Kobe scored less and they won less. Bro they are retarded don't even bother with them. They said Jordan was a ball hog back in 1988 and he would never win a championship! And Kobe's bad for cheating on his wife like oh say America's favorite white actor Brad Pitt! The kid above me is right in what he's saying about Wilt and Russell. But I think where Kobe and Jordan get the edge is in entertainment factor. After all the NBA is entertainment and they make more spectacular plays.
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I just thought that Kobe would one day get his top,it's just the time can tell how much he could rewite the history----And today he did!Maybe he is always surrounded by the bugs' words,claiming that he is an egoist.But check out the statistics of Lakers and you will find that the team assaults more effective with Kobe.
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Bryant began his career at Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pa., wearing No. 24. But by 1996 -- the year he led the school to the state championship -- he had switched to No. 33, the number his father Joe "Jelly Bean" Bryant wore in high school. \n\nIn order for a player to change jersey numbers at will, he either has to change teams or have the team inform the league of the decision more than six months in advance. Players who stay with the same team must have worn the same number for four seasons or longer. Sources say the Lakers informed the league of Bryant's wish to change his number by this year's March 3 deadline.\n\nCalls placed to Bryant's agent Rob Pelinka and the Lakers were not immediately returned.\n\n \n\nOver the past few months, Kobe Bryant's popularity has been on the rise again. His jersey was the fourth-best seller this season, up one spot from last year's position, according to sales at the NBA Store in Manhattan and on NBA.com.\n\nWhen Bryant came into the league, he couldn't take the No. 33 because it had been retired seven years earlier by the Lakers in honor of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. \n\nBryant arrived at the No. 8 for two reasons. It was the number he wore when he was a kid playing in Italy. It also tied into the number he wore at Adidas' ABCD Camp, 143. The numbers add up to 8.\n\nBryant's switch is the NBA's most significant jersey number change since the 1994-95 season, when Michael Jordan came out of retirement wearing the No. 45 for the final 22 games of the season. Jordan's No. 23 had been retired by the Bulls in his honor. For the next three seasons, Jordan went back to the No. 23.\n\nLeague veteran Jim Jackson, who signed with the Lakers in March, now wears No. 24.