Damn Dwight in Orlando you was the man homie!!!!!

[Malta]

Rony Seikaly would be a monster in this era

nikkas wouldn't have an answer for Rik Smits

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

dude got exposed in 2010 vs cletics

perk made that nikka look average

even the 09 finals

 

[Clarence Boddicker]

 

[street heat]

guess shaq was right

 

[IGSaint12]

Shaq says he won 3 of those championships and Gasol says he won one (he dominated KG in the Finals), so stfu

Check kobe's scoring through those championships and let's see who was carrying who. Nah you stfu

 

[GzUp]

nikkas wouldn't have an answer for Rik Smits

 

[Skip b]

nikkas wouldn't have an answer for Rik Smits

Smits game=Brook Lopez

 

[froggle]

The sad thing is that's actually true.
Average centers from the 90s would absolutely BEAST today.

old ass Arvydas would be stanned as the GOATest center of all time in this era. Eating all these cats for lunch, dinner and dessert

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

 

[Constellations]

The Least Influential People of 2012

4. DWIGHT HOWARD
Congratulations, Dwight! You're a Laker now. And all you had to do to become one was spend months making vague demands of the Orlando Magic and then backtracking on those demands like a spineless p*ssy until every American hated your guts and wanted to see you fail. "I'll stay in Orlando if you fire my coach! Or maybe I won't. Or maybe you could fire the coach and then build a statue of me made out of frozen butter. NO WAIT TRADE ME TO BROOKLYN NO WAIT DON'T TRADE ME THERE BECAUSE I THOUGHT BROOKLYN WAS MORE CONVENIENT TO MANHATTAN THAN IT ACTUALLY IS." In a just world, Dwight Howard will hurt his knee and doctors will take seventeen months to make a proper diagnosis.

Read More The Least Influential People of 2012 - GQ December: Celebrities: GQ

 

[GetSomeMoney]

Check kobe's scoring through those championships and let's see who was carrying who. Nah you stfu

ESPN's top 10 finals performances

Name Team Year PPG RPG APG FG% PER

1.Dwyane Wade Mia 2006 34.7 7.8 3.8 46.8 33.82.
2.Tim Duncan SA 2003 24.2 17.0 5.3 49.5 32.0
3.Michael Jordan Chi 1991 31.2 6.6 11.4 55.8 31.5
4.Shaquille O'Neal LAL 2002 36.3 12.3 3.8 59.5 31.4
5.Shaquille O'Neal LAL 2000 38.0 16.7 2.3 61.1 31.1
6.Michael Jordan Chi 1998 33.5 4.0 2.3 42.7 30.8
7.Tim Duncan SA 1999 27.4 14.0 2.4 53.7 30.7
8.Dwyane Wade Mia 2011 26.5 7.0 5.2 54.6 30.2
9.Michael Jordan Chi 1997 32.3 7.0 6.0 45.6 29.5
10.Shaquille O'Neal LAL 2001 33.0 15.8 4.8 57.3 29.4

In the 2009 Finals, Kobe averaged 30 but shot 40%, Gasol shot 60% and went 20 and 10, and had KG guarding him, Ray Allen was guarding Kobe

Nah, you can stfu again

 

[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

Check kobe's scoring through those championships and let's see who was carrying who. Nah you stfu

ima say this then leave it alone....yea kobe had some high averages during those chip years with shaq....now the the question is why?

well...thats becuz shaq was always getting doubled and sometimes triple teamed...leaving kobe to be covered one on one...which was an L for any defender back then...

and no im not saying kobe isnt/wasnt great....he was...no doubt....but shaq played a big part in his success back then...

i would say they were 1a/1b back then...

and that doesnt take away from the greatness of either of them...

 

[Da_Eggman]

ESPN's top 10 finals performances

Name Team Year PPG RPG APG FG% PER

1.Dwyane Wade Mia 2006 34.7 7.8 3.8 46.8 33.82.
2.Tim Duncan SA 2003 24.2 17.0 5.3 49.5 32.0
3.Michael Jordan Chi 1991 31.2 6.6 11.4 55.8 31.5
4.Shaquille O'Neal LAL 2002 36.3 12.3 3.8 59.5 31.4
5.Shaquille O'Neal LAL 2000 38.0 16.7 2.3 61.1 31.1
6.Michael Jordan Chi 1998 33.5 4.0 2.3 42.7 30.8
7.Tim Duncan SA 1999 27.4 14.0 2.4 53.7 30.7
8.Dwyane Wade Mia 2011 26.5 7.0 5.2 54.6 30.2
9.Michael Jordan Chi 1997 32.3 7.0 6.0 45.6 29.5
10.Shaquille O'Neal LAL 2001 33.0 15.8 4.8 57.3 29.4

In the 2009 Finals, Kobe averaged 30 but shot 40%, Gasol shot 60% and went 20 and 10, and had KG guarding him, Ray Allen was guarding Kobe

Nah, you can stfu again

shaq in 2000

 

[GetSomeMoney]

ima say this then leave it alone....yea kobe had some high averages during those chip years with shaq....now the the question is why?

well...thats becuz shaq was always getting doubled and sometimes triple teamed...leaving kobe to be covered one on one...which was an L for any defender back then...

and no im not saying kobe isnt/wasnt great....he was...no doubt....but shaq played a big part in his success back then...

i would say they were 1a/1b back then...

and that doesnt take away from the greatness of either of them...

There is no way you can say 1a/1b, check the numbers, it was only 1 (Shaq) and 2(kobe) when it came to the court, celebrity status was 1a/1b but not on the court, Shaq averaged 40pts/17rebs in one finals and COULD NOT make a free throw to save his life. Kobe is really good, but put a few other guys on that team in the early 2000s and they would have won also (namely Tmac, Iverson, etc..)

 

[IGSaint12]

There is no way you can say 1a/1b, check the numbers, it was only 1 (Shaq) and 2(kobe) when it came to the court, celebrity status was 1a/1b but not on the court, Shaq averaged 40pts/17rebs in one finals and COULD NOT make a free throw to save his life. Kobe is really good, but put a few other guys on that team in the early 2000s and they would have won also (namely Tmac, Iverson, etc..)

Give kobe a pippen type of player who can create his own shot, average 18+, set up shots for the rest of the team and play elite defense, and kobe would of won championships just as well in those years.

You people who keep talking about shaq as if he carried kobe act like he couldn't win shyt without shaq. Shaq is a monster but he is replaceable if kobe had the same team template that jordan had.