LeBron Robbed us of a classic finals

[Bilz]

No, the Lakers were't expected to make it that year. Kobe's knees were jacked up and the team was on life support



And a healthy Bynum through those meetings with the Celtics and The Big Disappointing 3 would've still been ringless

No, that was what people said after they got swept like garbage. Everyone said the Lakers were winning that year, especially after that 18-1 run or whatever it was late in the season.

Kobe and LeBron have had plenty of chances to see each other in the playoffs. Since LeBron has been in the league, he has been in more finals than Kobe.

 

[SymbolicOne09]

The crying in this thread is disgusting. Bron stans make 101 excuses of "why he didn't........"

He didn't, so .....

its a team game what % of the blame should we really put on lebron?

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Lol at the Kobe puppet looking like a vato in LA and sounding like Luscious Lyon

 

[Big Boss]

No, that was what people said after they got swept like garbage. Everyone said the Lakers were winning that year, especially after that 18-1 run or whatever it was late in the season.

Kobe and LeBron have had plenty of chances to see each other in the playoffs. Since LeBron has been in the league, he has been in more finals than Kobe.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Yup, KG was the anchor of their defense, when he came back the celtics whooped them magic asses in 2010 and that one orlando team was even stronger with additions of vince carter and so on.

I don't agree with that particular point at all. That Magic team worked better with Hedo. They killed teams that post-season with the matchup problems he and Shard produced, and he lead the team in assists that post-season. That Hedo/Dwight pick and roll with Shard sitting in the corner was Of course, with KG (just like the lakers in the finals) the Celtics would have had the personnel to stop it, but the 08/09 team was the better squad. Orlando realized they fukked up what they had letting Hedo walk and went and traded for him a year later but the second Toronto gave him that contract he was done.

 

[ISO]

Those years where the kobe/bron puppets were hot. Between 08-10 we were supposed to get atleast one matchup. Kobe did his part in a harder confrence but bron bron couldn't get out the east.

ruining history



Shyt woulda been like if Nike had the chance to promote Hakeem vs jordan in 94

Do you know what #'s LBJ put up in that series, matter of fact them playoffs period? Dwight dominated the Cavs down low, Magic shot the lights out, Lewis and Turkoglu hit GW's in the series, I think LBJ averaged close to 40 a game in that series and he hit The Shot too.

The Magic robbed us, not LeBron...

 

[Professor Emeritus]

The Celtics were heavy favorites to come out of the east in 2008. OP is a revisionist kobe stan telling lies

Something else the kobe fanboys are ignoring - Lebron and the Cavs played the Celtics a LOT closer than the Lakers did.

Boston barely squeezed out a 7-game series against Cleveland. Three of their wins were by 4, 5, and 7 points, and Cleveland outscored Boston by 8 in the series even though they lost. Lebron went for 45 in Game 7, but the rest of his team was hot garbage in that game (Delonte was the only player even in double figures), and Boston survived with a 5-point win.

But Boston beat the Lakers in just 6 games, and dominated them by 40 in the deciding Game 6. Kobe was a putrid 22/3/1 on 7-22 shooting in the deciding game. Boston outscored the Lakers by 51 in the series, and LA's only wins were a couple 5-point squeakers.

So blaming Lebron for the him and Kobe not meeting, when the Cavs looked a lot better against Boston than the Lakers did, is kinda stupid.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

The Celtics were heavy favorites to come out of the east in 2008. OP is a revisionist kobe stan telling lies

That wasn't quite true in the preseason. For some reason all sorts of people thought the Bulls or the Pistons would come out of the East - they were getting as much hype as Boston was. A few people were talking like Miami or New Jersey might make some noise. No one knew that Rondo was any good yet, so everyone thought that Boston was the Big 3 and nothing else. But once Boston started off 8-0, 20-2, and 29-3, pretty much everyone expected them to take the title.

But everyone agreed that the Cavs had no chance. Preseason they were maybe the 5th-place team coming out of the East that year, if even that.

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Lol at the Kobe puppet looking like a vato in LA and sounding like Luscious Lyon

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Those years where the kobe/bron puppets were hot. Between 08-10 we were supposed to get atleast one matchup. Kobe did his part in a harder confrence but bron bron couldn't get out the east.

ruining history



Shyt woulda been like if Nike had the chance to promote Hakeem vs jordan in 94

LeBron was 23 , 24 and 25 in those respective years with no help.

For comparison, Kobe was still Shaq's sidekick at that point in his career.

If anything, Kobe robbed us 2011.

 

[FS4LFE]

It ain't about settling anything, it's two icons and their teams going at each other. What's wrong with you?

Why don't you blame Tobe? In 2011 and 2012 weren't they supposed to make it to the finals?

What about 2007 when Tobe was averaging 35 a game? I guess all that scoring was meaningless cause he couldn't get his team to the finals.


Then again that is the same year he wanted out and almost went to the Pistons.

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

Smh at y'all