Matt Barnes: "Kobe > LeBron (MJ and Kobe 2 greatest ever)"

[IllegalD]

https://www.talkbasket.net/51964-mat...on-jumped-kobe

Interviewer: "Now you got to play with Kobe after. And again, like I said, you can't go wrong with either. Kobe and Mike are the two best to me that I've seen."

Barnes: "I agree. It's crazy to me how people jump LeBron. The talk is now MJ/LeBron, and I don't understand how LeBron jumped Kobe. Like that shit trips me out."

Interviewer: "Every single dude that I've spoke to that's played in the league it's like, 'Yo, it's Kobe and Mike. It's Kobe and Mike.'"

[StrongLurk]

Anyone who thinks Kobe is the 2nd best player ever is extremely ignorant.

I actually think if you replaced Kobe's whole career with Durant then Durant would have had more success than Kobe did. I mean, Durant is just as good as Kobe is the playoffs, and MUCH better than Kobe was in the finals.

MJ is GOAT tho.

[IllegalD]

Anyone who thinks Kobe is the 2nd best player ever is extremely ignorant.

I actually think if you replaced Kobe's whole career with Durant then Durant would have had more success than Kobe did. I mean, Durant is just as good as Kobe is the playoffs, and MUCH better than Kobe was in the finals.

MJ is GOAT tho.

KD couldn't win with Westbrook and Harden and had to join a 73-win stacked team that had already won without him to finally get over the hump.

You're probably like 13 so that explains your retarded ignorance.

[StrongLurk]

KD couldn't win with Westbrook and Harden and had to join a 73-win stacked team that had already won without him to finally get over the hump.

You're probably like 13 so that explains your retarded ignorance.

Durant had one season with Westbrook/Harden when they were both elite players and lost to Lebron/the Heat in the finals which was a really good team. Durant in those finals was better than most of Kobe's finals performances.

It is a different era for top heavy teams compared to the lackluster late 90's/early 2000s for top heavy teams.

Those 00-02 Lakers wouldn't have beat the 2012 Miami Heat either because while Shaq and 01/02 Kobe were elite, the rest of the Lakers were not.

Durant's first 8 years in the league were better than Kobe's first 8 years, which means Durant would have won at least 4 rings with Shaq 96-04.

[IllegalD]

Durant had one season with Westbrook/Harden when they were both elite players and lost to Lebron/the Heat in the finals which was a really good team. Durant in those finals was better than most of Kobe's finals performances.

It is a different era for top heavy teams compared to the lackluster late 90's/early 2000s for top heavy teams.

Those 00-02 Lakers wouldn't have beat the 2012 Miami Heat either because while Shaq and 01/02 Kobe were elite, the rest of the Lakers were not.

Durant's first 8 years in the league were better than Kobe's first 8 years, which means Durant would have won at least 4 rings with Shaq 96-04.

Triggered!!

Homie over here writing thesis-long dissertations about hypotheticals based on absolutely nothing except his own weird little feelings/biases.

Imagine caring so much about another grown man's legacy.

[sdot_thadon]

Triggered!!

Homie over here writing thesis-long dissertations about hypotheticals based on absolutely nothing except his own weird little feelings/biases.

Imagine caring so much about another grown man's legacy.

yet you found it important to start this thread......

[StrongLurk]

Triggered!!

Homie over here writing thesis-long dissertations about hypotheticals based on absolutely nothing except his own weird little feelings/biases.

Imagine caring so much about another grown man's legacy.

Imagine struggling to get through 5 sentences

[IllegalD]

yet you found it important to start this thread......

Yet you found it important to respond.........

[IllegalD]

Imagine struggling to get through 5 sentences

Imagine being a keyboard warrior and pretending to know more about basketball than actual NBA players.

[sdot_thadon]

Yet you found it important to respond.........

I just get a kick out of the irony at play.

[Smoke117]

Anyone who thinks Kobe is the 2nd best player ever is extremely ignorant.

I actually think if you replaced Kobe's whole career with Durant then Durant would have had more success than Kobe did. I mean, Durant is just as good as Kobe is the playoffs, and MUCH better than Kobe was in the finals.

MJ is GOAT tho.

Exactly. He's closer to 10 than he is to 1, so any time someone says he's the 2nd greatest ever to MJ his opinion basically loses all credibility.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

Yeah, the second greatest 2 guard.

The second best player of ALL TIME is funny. MJ and KAJ are atop the food chain.

[IllegalD]

Yeah, the second greatest 2 guard.

The second best player of all-time is funny. MJ and KAJ are atop the food chain.

KAJ? The guy that needed Magic and Big O to win all his rings...?

[StrongLurk]

KAJ? The guy that needed Magic and Big O to win all his rings...?

KAJ has 6 rings, 6MVPS, and 2 Finals MVPS

Kobe has 5 rings, 1MVP, and 2 Finals MVPS.

Granted, we could provide you a lot more context as to why KAJ>Kobe, but you cant handle reading more than 2 sentences per post so...

[RRR3]

KAJ? The guy that needed Magic and Big O to win all his rings...?

The guy that was better than Kobe at basketball.