Thank You Kobe Bryant - The Greatest Basketball Player of All Time

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11:52a, 4/13/16
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2 decades comes to an end tonight. The end of an era, and no doubt the fundamental changing of the NBA going forward.


  • 5x nba champion
  • 2x finals MVP
  • 2x gold medalist
  • 1 MVP
  • 1x ALL-NBA First Team
  • 2x All Star
  • 4x All Star MVP
  • 12 All NBA Defense
  • 3rd on NBA's all-time scoring list
  • 3rd on NBA's all-time playoff scoring list
  • Second-highest scoring game
  • 24 Games with at least 50 points
































and like that.... he's gone.


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11:56a, 4/13/16
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A sad day. Long live the GOAT.

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12:49p, 4/13/16
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Great player. Definitely top three of his generation.
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1:02p, 4/13/16
Great all-time player. But really, he was finished 3 years ago. His swan song was the games leading up to his Achilles injury
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1:11p, 4/13/16
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SB -Welcome back from purgatory!
GOAT? Nope, but I wouldn't expect any other proclamation.
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Deputy Travis Junior
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1:59p, 4/13/16
Greatest basketball player of all time? Hell he's probably only the fifth best Laker of all time. I'd take Wilt, Kareem, Magic, and Shaq over Kobe.
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2:00p, 4/13/16
I didn't root for him since he was a Laker, but up until he assaulted that woman I would have wanted him on the Rockets. After that, he was just another thug NBA player.

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In reply to Texas A&M • 2:05p, 4/13/16
I'm not a criminal apologist, but that woman was far from a saint and none of us know exactly what happened in that room that night. It's not a given or close to one that he did in fact rape her.
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2:10p, 4/13/16
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Definitely one of the top 40 basketball players of all time.

The Terry Bradshaw or Troy Aikman of NBA basketball.

Very good player.
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2:51p, 4/13/16
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Nice of you to join us, Simple!
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2:53p, 4/13/16
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Guys, give Simple the benefit of the doubt. I doubt he actually thinks the's the actual GOAT.
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2:58p, 4/13/16
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GOAT?
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2:59p, 4/13/16
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3:07p, 4/13/16
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He's the GOAT shut your mouths.

If you actually want to know what i think...Kobe doesn't sniff Jordan. Kobe is top 5. I can only tie him with Magic at best. He's better than Duncan, although due to duncan having an amazing coach and amazing cast and organization for his career, Duncan can and likely has the better career. But kobe is still better.
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3:11p, 4/13/16
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He's not even a Top 5 Laker of all time.
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3:11p, 4/13/16
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1-0 vs rape charges

65 losses (and counting) his last season.

GOAT indeed
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In reply to Simplebay • 3:15p, 4/13/16
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He's better than Duncan
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 3:16p, 4/13/16
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There's a reason i led with the second picture i did
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In reply to Simplebay • 3:18p, 4/13/16
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3:21p, 4/13/16
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I am so not ready for losing Duncan. I think he comes back for one last hurrah next season, but regardless, I will probably cry when it happens.

I imagine it's pretty tough to see an icon go out at such a low point in his career. Sucks he never got the help he needed in the last few years. (Actually, not so much. The last Spurs-Lakers series was a ton of fun.)
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In reply to Simplebay • 3:22p, 4/13/16
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He's the GOAT shut your mouths.

If you actually want to know what i think...Kobe doesn't sniff Jordan. Kobe is top 5. I can only tie him with Magic at best. He's better than Duncan, although due to duncan having an amazing coach and amazing cast and organization for his career, Duncan can and likely has the better career. But kobe is still better.


Kobe had the most dominant player in the game on his team for the first three titles.

Duncan had Avery Johnson, Jaren Jackson, Mario Elie, Sean Elliott barely even in the game from Kidney disease, and a fairly washed up David Robinson for his first title run.

Then Kobe gets Gasol for a bag of skittles (at the time) from the grizzlies. Kobe has hardly had worse supporting casts than Tim. A better coach? I agree with you there but there are worse coaches than Phil.
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3:25p, 4/13/16
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favorite Kobe highlight

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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 3:39p, 4/13/16
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I am so not ready for losing Duncan. I think he comes back for one last hurrah next season, but regardless, I will probably cry when it happens.

I imagine it's pretty tough to see an icon go out at such a low point in his career. Sucks he never got the help he needed in the last few years. (Actually, not so much. The last Spurs-Lakers series was a ton of fun.)
he did it to himself. taking 25MM salaries to the detriment of the team (He could've worked some under the table deal behind the scenes where they could keep him as a consultant after he retires and his salary would be undisclosed) and making it impossible to add legitimate help
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3:44p, 4/13/16
Nice to have you back, Simplebay. Good to see you haven't become a Clippers fan since last posting around here.
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4:01p, 4/13/16
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F the floppers. they will never win a chompionship
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In reply to Simplebay • 4:28p, 4/13/16
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F the floppers. they will never win a chompionship
I love that everyone on this board hates the Clippers. Let's all hope that Chris Paul never sees Round 3.
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In reply to Deputy Travis Junior • 5:00p, 4/13/16
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I'm not a criminal apologist, but that woman was far from a saint and none of us know exactly what happened in that room that night. It's not a given or close to one that he did in fact rape her.
This is true. However, street hookers can be raped.

I find it doubtful that she faked the vaginal tearing.
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In reply to Guitarsoup • 5:05p, 4/13/16
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I'm not a criminal apologist, but that woman was far from a saint and none of us know exactly what happened in that room that night. It's not a given or close to one that he did in fact rape her.
This is true. However, street hookers can be raped.

I find it doubtful that she faked the vaginal tearing.


That's not something I expected to read today...
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In reply to Guitarsoup • 8:56p, 4/13/16
You're right that it's very possible that he did. I remember that she'd had sex with multiple guys in the previous 24 or 48 hours, and that the defense said the trauma was due to that lots of sex. I don't know anything about the physiological effects of marathon sex sessions so I don't have a clue whether there's anything to that. But on its face it didn't seem like the "wow he absolutely got away with rape" sort of situation that you saw with Roethlisberger.
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9:17p, 4/13/16
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Farewell Black Mamba!

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In reply to Deputy Travis Junior • 9:22p, 4/13/16
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You're right that it's very possible that he did. I remember that she'd had sex with multiple guys in the previous 24 or 48 hours, and that the defense said the trauma was due to that lots of sex. I don't know anything about the physiological effects of marathon sex sessions so I don't have a clue whether there's anything to that. But on its face it didn't seem like the "wow he absolutely got away with rape" sort of situation that you saw with Roethlisberger.
You know, a lot of women have sex multiple times within 48 hours without extensive tearing/bleeding.
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9:22p, 4/13/16
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He was only first team all NBA one time?
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9:23p, 4/13/16
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Cuban says he had a deal done for Kobe+contract dumps for JET+Josh Howard+Picks in 2007.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15199148/dallas-mavericks-nearly-acquired-kobe-bryant-2007-mark-cuban-says
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