Now explain why the overwhelming majority of players say point blank Kobe is better than LeBron.
Sorry but Kobe is just better than LeBron according to their peers. Cry about it.
Because as much as you clowns refuse to acknowledge it, Kobe is the safe answer. Kobe has had the full benefit of all of the media hyperbole. Praising Kobe = ratings. The shock jocks all praise him because it equals ratings. Building him up like a superhero = ratings. Meanwhile, for LeBron, the focus has always been on the negative. It has always been cool to hate him.
Last year, people still called Kobe the greatest player in the league and the response was

. That would never happen for LeBron if he was statistically one of the worst players of all time like Kobe was last year.
No matter how heavy it was laid out for Kobe, it was never controversial to do it. He could be down 100 in the 4th and if a media head said he still thinks Kobe would come back to win, people would be like "

maybe he's right". It wouldn't matter that he never showed that ability, just like it doesn't matter that in just about all of the statistical categories people clown on LeBron for, he's easily >>> Kobe.