:wow: @ This ESPN Kobe Article

[DaDoc04]

wow at the contrast in opinion on his parents situation from the coli and it's sister site
Kobe Explains Why He Hasn’t Spoken To His Parents In 3 Years

 

[Ziggiy]

Excellent article

Damn shame what happened between him and his parents

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

Ramona puttin in work huh ?

She needs to stay off Twitter tho

Breh she's the best writer over at ESPN.. That Stanford education

 

[Trece]

I don't think Shaq's ego is any softer than Kobe's.
And the other common denominator in those 3 cities is that Shaq led teams to the Finals in all of them (and titles in 2 of them).

Just about everywhere Shaq has been, when the offense flowed through him...the team was successful.

Shaq was the one who revived that Lakers franchise in the late 1990s.
Shaq was the one who led those Lakers to those 3 chips.

Why shouldn't he have felt like Dr. Buss should have offered him an extension?
Why shouldn't have the offense continue to flow through him?

I think a lot of you guys are just defending Kobe because you're fans of Kobe.
I'm not saying he wasn't a great player.

I'm of the opinion that if the organization had done more to placate Shaq...they would have had more success together than they ultimately did apart.
And this argument that "Kobe made a lot of money for the Lakers" doesn't really mean anything. The cap is what the cap is. If the cap is 65 million and they sell 20 million dollars in Kobe jerseys...that 20 million doesn't go into the payroll the following year to improve the team. When you're talking about the product on the court...those dollars are meaningless.

Someone needs to tell this phakkit -in his own phakkit language (maybe with finger snaps and hair tosses)- that Shaq fueded with Wade too after the lakers

 

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Someone needs to tell this phakkit -in his own phakkit language (maybe with finger snaps and hair tosses)- that Shaq fueded with Wade too after the lakers

Means nothing.
Wade owes of one his chips to Shaq. And the other 2 to Lebron.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

ESPN actually came out with two Kobe stories on the same day.

The never-ending story: Who is the Authentic Kobe?

The explicit lyrics of Jay Z, long before he became the POTUS-approved, hip-hop scion, blare through the speakers. Bryant slows down and lowers the volume.

"This stuff is a little harsh, huh?" he says, swapping out the CD after about the eighth n-bomb. "You like the Spice Girls? A lot of people hate them, but the positive image they project, how they make kids feel, I admire that."

For years I wondered if he was projecting what he wanted people to think he listened to, or whether he had unilaterally decided what the white reporter from the New York Times wanted to hear-the mainstream soundtrack of American tweens.

And the more Bryant heard he wasn't "black enough," the more he began to hate the compartmentalization of the African-American athlete. He believed that down-with-the-cause groupthink short-circuited civil debate and genuine education about nuanced issues. LeBron James wore a hoodie to support Trayvon Martin; Bryant first wanted more facts.

"If we've progressed as a society, then you don't jump to somebody's defense just because they're African-American," he told The New Yorker two years ago. Which didn't go over well with a certain social-conscience athletic icon.

"He is somewhat confused about culture, because he was brought up in another country," Jim Brown said at the time, that if he were to convene another historic summit of black athletes like he did in 1967 to support Muhammad Ali over his refusal to enter the military, Bryant wouldn't get an invite.

Bryant responded in a tweet: "A 'Global' African American is an inferior shade to 'American' African Americans?? #hmm. that doesn't sound very #Mandela or #DrKing sir."

Some of it puts him in a good light, some of it is harsher.

 

[Youseenmywork]

LEGENDARY...MAANN

 

[Timeis$]

Means nothing.
Wade owes of one his chips to Shaq. And the other 2 to Lebron.

No the fukk he doesn't Shaq owes his 4th championship to Wade. Only Wade haters or Shaq stans can refute such garbage.

 

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No the fukk he doesn't Shaq owes his 4th championship to Wade. Only Wade haters or Shaq stans can refute such garbage.

Heat were a 40 win team before Shaq.
You think Wade was gonna lead Brian Grant and Jermaine O'Neal to the chip?

The Big Aristotle breh.

 

[CarbonBraddock]

they try to hard to make this dude seem like some kind of inhuman super-genius. mufukka, you throw a ball through a hoop, something children can do, calm down.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Kobe the gawd

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

they try to hard to make this dude seem like some kind of inhuman super-genius. mufukka, you throw a ball through a hoop, something children can do, calm down.

 

[Liquid]

Lol. No you choose Shaq. You always choose Shaq.

For the same reason they referenced in that Magic Moment documentary:

It's easier to find another SG who could be Penny, but you'll never find another Shaq

Not in 2004 and beyond. They went with bean and were right.

 

[Insun Park]

There are levels to this nikka

 

[tru_m.a.c]

wow at the contrast in opinion on his parents situation from the coli and it's sister site
Kobe Explains Why He Hasn’t Spoken To His Parents In 3 Years

Well they are right