Does Kobe deserve a Jeter-style sendoff in his final year?

whatsmyname wrote:

4. Deemed at times to be a selfish player

At times? You must be joking. The ONLY times he DIDN'T play selfishly was when Phil Jackson would tell the media how SELFISH Kobe Klanker is and this would irritate the ballhog/gunner so much he would not take any shots to spite his coach thereby actually helping the team play better.

Years ago when I could watch all the west coast games on the internet, it was pretty routine for the Klankster to rest the first half of the 4th quarter. He would go back into the game at the 6 minute mark with the Lakers leading by 10 or 12 points. He would proceed to start jacking up a bunch of off balance, turnaround, fade-away jumpers from 21 feet until the other team caught up and went ahead. He would then proceed to take EVERY shot the rest of the game and if the Lakers won, espn would spend half the next day telling how great he was for making the "game winning" shot.

Juicy miler wrote:

Jester didn't deserve this year's send off. That was plain stupid. He's a definite HOF inductee, but so are a lot of other players that didn't his send off. Not the best Yankee, not the best shortstop, and not the best of his generation.

I agree with this post. A Hall of Famer and maybe top 10 at his position, but of the three veteran players that retired this season (Jeter, Konerko, Bobby Abreu) guess who had the lowest career OPS? Guess whose career OPS was about the same as Gene Tenace's?

In his final game, Kobe should run the gauntlet of all the b*tches he's raped over the years

If he needs a Jeter-style sendoff to increase the chances he doesn't play in 2015-16, I say we give it to him. While Jeter had more support among fans, I think the Yankees and baseball really did it to be sure he didn't hang around, either.

Jeter is everything good about sport.

Bryant is everything bad about sport.

Umm no wrote:

No Malone? He has more points than Kobe, played more defense than Kobe. (Kobe is horribly overrated defender.) And all around good guy. The one thing that Malone did that was stupid was championship chasing, by spending that year in LA. I put the arguably best PF of all time over the 3rd best SG of all time.

But as you said, and I still agree, he does not deserve a send off. He was / is a dick and that's how he will be remembered. No teams will want to do anything for him.

In no world is Malone a better power forward than Tim Duncan.

Eagle County Eagle Eye wrote:

Rape Allegation??? Kobe Bryant settled a civil case out of court with the victim, in exchange for her refusal to testify in the criminal case-which resulted in the DA dropping the charges. HE PAID OFF THE GIRL HE RAPED!!!

If Kobe is innocent, so is OJ.

He deserves exactly the same end as OJ-rotting to death in prison. I will never again watch the NBA.

Then don't watch, nobody cares. Turd.

what a snowjob wrote:

whatsmyname wrote:

4. Deemed at times to be a selfish player

At times? You must be joking. The ONLY times he DIDN'T play selfishly was when Phil Jackson would tell the media how SELFISH Kobe Klanker is and this would irritate the ballhog/gunner so much he would not take any shots to spite his coach thereby actually helping the team play better.

Lol - I remember the specific game which you are thinking about. After taking some public criticism from Phil for shooting too much, Kobe literally refused to shoot in one game. I think eventually he did take a few shots and ended with an uncharacteristically low 8 points for the game. Anyway, yes it was a very immature and childish reaction by Kobe who showed how over-sensitive he was and how he was willing to sacrifice his own team's well being in order to make a point.

However, I do stand by the "at times" comment. Later in his career, Kobe did seem to learn more about the value of sharing the ball and how to help other players score instead of just him. This was all post-Shaq.

Malone, Oscar, Hakeem, Shaquille, Duncan , lebron no yet.... they are not better than Kobe.... noppppp.

Kobe is a million times better at basketball than Jeter is at baseball. Jeter is a DECENT player with the new york media behind him.

Neither player needs to be paraded like Jeter was, that was a joke.