Why Appreciate Kobe Bryant’s Skills When It’s Much Easier To Hate Him?

September 16th, 2010 by Hadarii Jones Leave a reply »
When Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant finally decides to retire it will likely be as one of the most accomplished and decorated players of our time, and one of the greatest of this generation.

But really, who cares?

Lakers' fans spend too much time praising Bryant when it's much easier, not to mention more fun, poking holes in his questionable legacy.

For instance, Kobe's fan club love to point to his 81 point game against the Toronto Raptors as proof of his greatness, but why waste the time when it's not even a record?

If memory serves me correctly Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game was 19 more points than Bryant's 81. It doesn't really matter that I can probably count the number of people who actually witnessed Wilt's performance on one hand since it wasn't televised.

We all know it happened because it's in the NBA record books.

And was I the only one who got tired of watching ESPN replay Bryant-the-ballhog's ridiculous shooting night over and over?

All Bryant's performance really proved is that he shoots the ball way to much, as former Dallas Mavericks' player Keith Horne pointed out when ...

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