Kobe was a Pippen for his first 3 chips so he doesn't compare to MJ Playboy. I will give you feeling he's better than Bron even though it could go either way in my opinion but he was a wannabe Jordan who never came close to Jordan. Kobe is a poor man's version of Jordan and that's not a diss.
Y'all love that narrative when it comes to Kobe....

Kobe had to carry that team a lot of times during the 3 peat run. Shaq would take most of the season to get in shape and he pretty much would save it for the playoff runs. In the mean time it was plenty of times he'd get into foul trouble or pout and not play defense if he didn't get the ball on offense. Then add is how the team had to plan on offsetting "hack-a-shaq" and you'd then realize that without each other they were not winning any titles.
It's cute to say...but the truth is they should have won at least 2 more titles together but Kobe was right...Shaq was lazy as fukk and even he admitted this