"Dear Basketball" poetry by Kobe Bryant greatest sports star in world history

pert wrote:

The NBA will milk the story to a great degree for the rest of the year for exposure.

^THIS ^2

Highly likely Koba announced his retirement now to make it much harder for the team to bench him.

Kobe is the greatest and most famous sports personality in world history. The only sports star famous even in the worst places such as North Korea and Israel.

... the most famous. Ronaldo, Beckham and Jordan are far more popular.

How's it klanging?

And we both know, no matter what I do next

I’ll always be that kid

With the rolled up socks

Garbage can in the corner

:05 seconds on the clock

Ball in my hands.

5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1

Klang

Tomorrow Kobe gets the chance to show his multi-pump fakes, klanks, and air balls. The lowly Lakers meet the winless 76ers. The 76ers are favored. Kobe is outraged to be the underdog to the worst team in the NBA.

the nba truth wrote:

pert wrote:

The NBA will milk the story to a great degree for the rest of the year for exposure.

^THIS ^

Similar to what the MLB did for Jeter

Kobe's played very poorly recently and is a shell of his former self after the injuries and the age, but this is a guy with five NBA championships as either the main or second guy, which alone makes him one of the greats, plus multiple Olympic golds and MVP's. Why the antipathy here?

MVP's? Singular in terms of the seasonal NBA MVP. Won once in 2008 a year the Lakers lost in the finals. The Lakers were only 57-25 Kobe's MVP year. Not much of an MVP.

Kobe write beautiful poetry. Or did he have a MMA/UFC screenwriter do it?

jjjjjj wrote:

Kobe's played very poorly recently and is a shell of his former self after the injuries and the age, but this is a guy with five NBA championships as either the main or second guy, which alone makes him one of the greats, plus multiple Olympic golds and MVP's. Why the antipathy here?

Because without Shaq and the NBA gift wrapping the Lakers a bunch of good players, he would have had ZERO. Remember they got Pau Gasol for a sack of potatoes from Memphis and Derek Fisher used his sick kid to weasel out of his contract with Utah to go back to the Lakers. And then the only way they could win was Phil Jackson shaming the Klankster in the newspapers so he would get mad and quit shooting so much. Once Phil left, any coach that tried to stand up to the Klankermeister so the team could actually win was promptly fired.

Also that championship against Boston was a joke because the game was so obviously fixed.

Any idiot knew that by watching but here is the game play by play if you want to check out the 4th quarter.

Beside that, the other reason the Lakers are so terrible now is because NO good player wants to have anything to do with the klankster and his ballhogging regardless of what the Lakers were willing to pay.

Hard to like a barely above average player who only put up a bunch of points by bullying his teammates into letting him shoot all the time. Most years his fg% was UNDER his teams fg% costing his team points every time he jacked up a bad shot. I haven't even started on his blaming teammates every time the team lost, but taking all the credit when they won.

Basketball is a team sport. It is not an individual sport. Players who insist on ball hogging and hero ball should never be considered for top players of all time. Kobe's presumed greatness is based on volume shooting, and that he must have the ball as much as possible. This is known as selfishness. Kobe has pretty much dismantled the Lakers, a team he owns everything to. He is not, and never was, an ambassador for the Lakers.