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For the same reasons I would've picked Jordan over Magic, Bird, or Hakeem back in '88.
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Good points. I can see where your coming from re Kobe at the same age.
BTW ignore KDRE.
Unfortunatley, he's a 12 year old kid who is obsessed with T Mac. Now, that's fine and all. However, it means that he has some sort of insane bias against Kobe. (Theory = Kobe and Mac are rivals, you know how kids are with that [censored]).
Personally, I don't like Bryant as a person. But the facts are, just about every player in the game calls him the number one player when on his game. I respect Rudy T a lot and Rudy basically feels Bryant has the potential to be the greatest ever. LA will be his team now.
As stated, I don't like him as a person and I don't like the Lakers. As a basketball fan though, it will be very interesting to see if he can rise to this challenge. I think a lot of us forget how young Kobe is.
People also forget (conveniently) that Shaq, for all his domincance, hasn't had to take or make a game winning shot in a big game for years.
Because of his foul shooting, Shaq never gets the ball when it counts, game on the line.
Now, despite this, most Kobe haters will tell you the kid did nothing to get the three rings. Where I sat, he seemed to cary them most times in the crunch.
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