Why was Kobe an All-Star in 1998?

[Hey Yo]

lol@ 20th year 1 legged kobe a**f*cking prime lebron

20th year Kobe???

His first 2 seasons don't count. He was just a role player coming off the bench.

3rd season was a lockout year and you've always said lockout years don't count.

2014 where he only played 6gms doesn't count

2015 only played 35gms so that doesn't count either.

So technically Kobe only played 15 seasons....

[E_Stamkos]

Because he finished 2nd in FAN voting for guards.

Why did Yao make it in his first year?

Dumb thread bro.

[Manny98]

i admit he didn't deserve that one...


but didn't he drop like 40 on lebron that year with like 70% shooting

Stop lying Kobe ain't ever drop 40 on LeBron

[zeerghit]

Because he finished 2nd in FAN voting for guards.

Why did Yao make it in his first year?

Dumb thread bro.

why do you think yao made it??maybe couse china has 1+bln population?

[Sakkreth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSe80qSgXVA
Voters just probably trolled or smt

[kennethgriffen]

20th year Kobe???

His first 2 seasons don't count. He was just a role player coming off the bench.

3rd season was a lockout year and you've always said lockout years don't count.

2014 where he only played 6gms doesn't count

2015 only played 35gms so that doesn't count either.

So technically Kobe only played 15 seasons....

so the guy who spent more time training/sprinting/shooting/running than any other player in nba history.

the guy who made deep playoff runs countless times

the guy who's played a combined 60,000+ minutes of basketball with regular season, playoffs and international combined plus another 500,000+ minutes of practice


technically only has 15 seasons on his legs


sure

['Toine=MVP]

He was a fan favorite.

Yeah. Simple.

[kennethgriffen]

Stop lying Kobe ain't ever drop 40 on LeBron

you're right. but he did outscore him by 50+ 1 on 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncMtXkL4Gu4

lebron 2 point hook shot shot 2-0
Kobe 3 point shot 2-3
Kobe 2 point running bank shot 2-5
Kobe 2 point up and under layup 2-7
Lebron 2 point layup 4-7
Kobe 2 point jumper 4-9
Kobe 2 point jumper 4-11
Kobe 2 point jumper 4-13
Kobe 3 point fall away shot 4-16
Kobe 2 point jumper 4-18
Kobe 3 point pull up 4-21
Kobe 2 point fall away bank shot 4-23
Kobe 3 point step back 4-26
Kobe 2 point fall away 4-28
Lebron 2 point fast break dunk 6-28
Lebron 2 point fade away 8-28
Kobe 2 point pull up shot 8-30
Lebron 2 point layup 10-30
Kobe 2 point running bank shot 10-32
Kobe 2 point jumper 10-34
Kobe 2 point jumper 10-36
Lebron 2 point jumper 12-36
Kobe 2 point layup 12-38
Lebron 2 point jumper 14-38
Kobe 2 point jumper 14-40
Lebron 2 point jumper 16-40
Kobe 2 point fall away shot 16-42
Kobe 3 point face up shot 16-45
Lebron 2 point fall away shot 19-45
Kobe 2 point high arching fade away 19-47
Kobe 2 point running leaner 19-49
Kobe 2 point dunk 19-51
Kobe 2 point rainbow fade away 19-53
Lebron 3 point step back 22-53
Kobe 2 point dunk 22-55
Kobe 3 point jumper 22-58
Lebron 2 point layup 24-58
Kobe 2 point fade away 24-60
Kobe 2 point layup 24-62
Kobe 2 point jumper 24-64
Kobe 2 point layup 24-66
Kobe 2 point fade away 24-68
Lebron 2 point layup 26-68
Kobe 2 point fake out layup 26-70
Lebron 2 point dunk 28-70
Kobe 2 point fade away 28-72
Kobe 3 point face up shot 28-75
Kobe 2 point fade away 28-77
Kobe 2 point pull up 28-79

[stalkerforlife]

There was no AS game in 99 (lock out season).

Proof they were born after 99 .

Yikes.

[90sgoat]

Ok kids, I'll try to answer this seriously.

Back in 1996, the league was dominated by a bunch of old guys from the 80s: Jordan, Barkley, Malone, Hakeem etc.

There was a lack of young stars. You basically were limited to Shaq, Penny, Grant Hill and Jason Kidd.

The years before that had been weak, notably the 1995 rooks Stackhouse and Mighty Mouse.

At this time, everyone was definitely looking big time for the next MJ: JR Rider, Harold Miner, Stackhouse, everyone failed spectacularly.

Then out of the blue comes this Kobe and the hype is off the charts. I got my first jersey of Kobe 8, my mom bought it for Christmas for me.

So kids like to act like Kobe wasn't a star, but he was big time even as a rookie, before we had internet for real.

I understand how it might seem strange to today's box score obsessed nerds, but this was a different time, we used our eyes. We had Kobe do stuff like this as a rookie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awHCDkLwx8o

Dunks were difficult to come by in the 90s, so players back then made them count. Look at Kobe here being creative, having that 90s style of dunking which was style and power.

So Kobe was exciting and he showed glimpses of stardom already in his rookie season. This is like how some morons even today don't realize that they're watching a future top 10 in Luka Doncic. Their eyes betray them. Back then we all had better eyes.

[hiphopanonymous]

Ok kids, I'll try to answer this seriously.

Back in 1996, the league was dominated by a bunch of old guys from the 80s: Jordan, Barkley, Malone, Hakeem etc.

There was a lack of young stars. You basically were limited to Shaq, Penny, Grant Hill and Jason Kidd.

The years before that had been weak, notably the 1995 rooks Stackhouse and Mighty Mouse.

At this time, everyone was definitely looking big time for the next MJ: JR Rider, Harold Miner, Stackhouse, everyone failed spectacularly.

Then out of the blue comes this Kobe and the hype is off the charts. I got my first jersey of Kobe 8, my mom bought it for Christmas for me.

So kids like to act like Kobe wasn't a star, but he was big time even as a rookie, before we had internet for real.

I understand how it might seem strange to today's box score obsessed nerds, but this was a different time, we used our eyes. We had Kobe do stuff like this as a rookie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awHCDkLwx8o

Dunks were difficult to come by in the 90s, so players back then made them count. Look at Kobe here being creative, having that 90s style of dunking which was style and power.

So Kobe was exciting and he showed glimpses of stardom already in his rookie season. This is like how some morons even today don't realize that they're watching a future top 10 in Luka Doncic. Their eyes betray them. Back then we all had better eyes.

I remember Kobe on the show "All-That" as a rookie

Yeah, he was a star right away this is a good post. I'll also add that this was also in that time frame when it was fascinating to see how relatively well he did despite being so young - he's among the first of the straight from high school guys and one of few who were fitting right in straight from high school a-la KG and eventually of course LeBron