Kobe takes Dwight Howard to the lottery, while Harden takes him to the WCF...

[dubeta]

wtf

Why do people here argue Prime Kobe > Prime Harden?



And before you talk about the 7th seed, the Lakers had to fight for the 7th spot after Kobe got injured. They were headed to the lottery before that, then Dwight + Gasol took them to the 7th seed.

[AirTupac]

Everyone knows Kobe carried that team to the playoffs, Dwight was carrying them into the lottery. And Gasol was injured all the time. Shows how dumb of a troll you are :)

[24-Inch_Chrome]

Kobe was 34, Harden was 25.

[HOoopCityJones]

Dwight carried him self a first round exit as the main option.


How can you still blame Kobe when he was limping around a lockeroom with the worst injury of his career.

[dubeta]

Everyone knows Kobe carried that team to the playoffs, Dwight was carrying them into the lottery. And Gasol was injured all the time. Shows how dumb of a troll you are :)

The rockets were injured all year too, do your research

[r15mohd]

Everyone knows Kobe carried that team to the playoffs, Dwight was carrying them into the lottery. And Gasol was injured all the time. Shows how dumb of a troll you are :)

D12 was also injured and not 100% coming off of back surgery...they even rushed him back into playing.

Lakers wanted pick up where they left off in winning and not letting D12 become fully acclimated with the team and Pau/Kobe aligning themselves to make this a Big3 dominating threat for years to come.

Kobe made it no better by ridiculing D12 and to extents Pau, and essentially driving both top5 bigs away from the Lakers.

many factors ruined that collab....Kobe "carrying" them is nothing to harp on

[AirTupac]

D12 was also injured and not 100% coming off of back surgery...they even rushed him back into playing.

Lakers wanted pick up where they left off in winning and not letting D12 become fully acclimated with the team and Pau/Kobe aligning themselves to make this a Big3 dominating threat for years to come.

Kobe made it no better by ridiculing D12 and to extents Pau, and essentially driving both top5 bigs away from the Lakers.

many factors ruined that collab....Kobe "carrying" them is nothing to harp on

What ridicule. Gasol and Kobe are best friends you bozo.

[JellyBean]

D12 was also injured and not 100% coming off of back surgery...they even rushed him back into playing.

Lakers wanted pick up where they left off in winning and not letting D12 become fully acclimated with the team and Pau/Kobe aligning themselves to make this a Big3 dominating threat for years to come.

Kobe made it no better by ridiculing D12 and to extents Pau, and essentially driving both top5 bigs away from the Lakers.

many factors ruined that collab....Kobe "carrying" them is nothing to harp on

Well I am just glad that Dwight aint wearing the purple and gold. He just wasn't worthy of that honor.

[r15mohd]

What ridicule. Gasol and Kobe are best friends you bozo.

what does that have to do with him ridiculing him over his play? friendships are for off court, on the court you do your job.

Kobe's method of instilling Pau to be aggressive and play better was to call him out, however Pau isn't the best at responding to that type of "support" or pressure. it's why he's labeled a softy

[AnaheimLakers24]

Reminds me of when bron got swatted by pau gasol

[r15mohd]

Well I am just glad that Dwight aint wearing the purple and gold. He just wasn't worthy of that honor.

he's been the rockets consistent threat during his healthy runs over the past 2 seasons...every team would welcome that.

LAL fans are just spoiled in wanting excellence without any setbacks to get their eventually

[Levity]

D12 was also injured and not 100% coming off of back surgery...they even rushed him back into playing.

Lakers wanted pick up where they left off in winning and not letting D12 become fully acclimated with the team and Pau/Kobe aligning themselves to make this a Big3 dominating threat for years to come.

Kobe made it no better by ridiculing D12 and to extents Pau, and essentially driving both top5 bigs away from the Lakers.

many factors ruined that collab....Kobe "carrying" them is nothing to harp on

dwight wasnt ready, yet he said he wanted to be the focal point on offense during that time?

and even weirder, in dantoni's high pick and roll offense, dwight preferred to play with his back to the basket, which is far from his strong suit.

[kennethgriffin]

i'm pretty sure kobe lifted the team into the playoffs


then dwight choked without kobe in round 1

[JT123]

Good point OP. Everyone wants to pretend that Kobe took the Lakers to the playoffs, but the team didn't clinch a playoff spot until AFTER Kobe's injury. So in reality, Dwight took himself to the playoffs.
He would have given the Spurs a run for their money too, if Nash, Meeks, and Artest hadn't been hurt.

[riseagainst]

i'm pretty sure kobe lifted the team into the playoffs


then dwight choked without kobe in round 1

this.