It really isn't Kobe's fault that people see glaring similarities between his game and Mike's. I mean, at the height of MJ's popularity was a big theme surrounding him? "Be Like Mike" Everyone wanted to be like MJ. It just so happens that Kobe's the closest thing to step on the court like him, from the intensity, to skill.
This really is just an idiotic pov because you don't see people in baseball going, "Mike Trout looks like a bootleg Mickey Mantle, what a fukking fakkit." Only weirdo basketball fans.