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Post subject: Article: Most Villainous Player: Bryant
 Posted: May 09, 2008 - 02:48 AM PST
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Well you just gotta love this: a commentary article written by someone from New Jersey and posted on a Kentucky newspaper site.
I'm not sure but do you all sense that this guy is just upset that we never traded Bynum for Kidd?
True Kobe was not a model citizen last summer but people will say anything to get into print.
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Kobe Bryant might have likened his first MVP award to the uplifting payoff found at the end of a Hollywood script, but his honor proves only that good things happen to bad actors.
Bryant is indeed the best player in the NBA; he's assumed that role for some time. He's scheduled to go down among the all-time greats, to be remembered as a shooting guard worthy of flying Michael Jordan's skies.
That doesn't make him an admirable figure. Not even close. In a perfect world, a world where selfish conduct isn't rewarded with a FedEx shipment in the form of Pau Gasol, Bryant would be joining the Nets and Knicks at the draft lottery and watching David Stern's post-season band play on without him.
In a wildly imperfect world, Bryant is a much decorated megastar on a team that can win the whole thing.
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Post subject: RE: Article: Most Villainous Player: Bryant
Posted: May 09, 2008 - 03:17 AM PST
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Well, yes it does seem that the writer would have loved the Bynum-Kidd trade. Thank goodness, cooler front office heads prevailed.
However, I who did not see the infamous parking lot video to which he refers, do not need to see it to have an opinion.
Kobe is a winner. He realised, as did a whole lot of people, that the Lakers team previous to the apocalyptic shake-ups that happened this year, were not particularly competitive. The team was going nowhere. That Kobe threw down the gauntlet with management, and owner, though unpopular at the time (this guy is not a diplomat after all) was predictable. Kobe quite rightly, in my opinion, gave them an ultimatum. Better the team, so that we can compete on a high level, or deal me so that I can go somewhere else where they are interested in contending! For me, Kobe was right! He prodded, and now our team is better, and in some small measure Kobe's ultimatum to management had this positive effect. Now, people do not forgive him, they consider him disloyal and egotistical - but, all this guy ever wanted is to have management backing up the team in a way that the team could effectively return to it's rightful place, and that is, contending for the Championship. My two cents! |
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Post subject: RE: Article: Most Villainous Player: Bryant
Posted: May 09, 2008 - 08:01 PM PST
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| Well i really cant argue with what he says in the article other than the part that says that kobe ran shaq etc out of LA. Kobe did ask to be traded and did ask to trade bynum as well. The best players in the league other than tim duncan have all been selfish. M. Jordan was selfish, ever read jordan rules? Magic was selfish too got pat riley fired and westhead fired. AI, barkley the list goes on. The writer needs to wake up and realize we live in the real world people dont hand you millions of dollars so you can play nice all the time. |
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