MikeYikes122
Master Don Juan
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He is probably the best player of this generation. He deserved to win two years ago when Nash won his second, and now he is going to be overlooked when Garnett takes the award again this year.
Call me crazy, but I think if Kobe had a better reputation for being a decent guy among media and coaches, he'd already have an MVP award on his mantel. Everyone in the media bashed him because he asked to be traded from a team that wasn't trying to better itself, while KG kept his mouth shut for years about how bad Minnesota sucked and all the media ever did was beg Garnett to ask for a trade. I also don't think you can blame Kobe for being pi$$ed about wanting to leave L.A. after that story that came out in the beginning of the summer, where the Los Angeles Times quoted a source from within the Lakers as saying Kobe was the one who drove Shaq out of town. Up until that point, Kobe had been told by Mitch Kupchak and the rest of the Lakers' brass that any insinuations about him driving Shaq out of town were coming from the media.
I think he gets a worse reputation than he deserves. He kind of seems like a decent guy, and I think he is actually underrated as a basketball player. He is twice the defender Nash and Nowitzki can ever dream to be, and no one seems to recognize just how much Kobe carries his team night-in and night-out. Those other guys had really good supporting casts, while Kobe carried the Lakers to fourth place two years ago with a team that had Smush Park as its third best player. How he did not win that year was astonishing to me. He scored 81 freaking points in a game. I don't know how someone can accomplish that, win the scoring title on a sh!tty team that he had to carry and still not be considered the most valuable player.
Call me crazy, but I think if Kobe had a better reputation for being a decent guy among media and coaches, he'd already have an MVP award on his mantel. Everyone in the media bashed him because he asked to be traded from a team that wasn't trying to better itself, while KG kept his mouth shut for years about how bad Minnesota sucked and all the media ever did was beg Garnett to ask for a trade. I also don't think you can blame Kobe for being pi$$ed about wanting to leave L.A. after that story that came out in the beginning of the summer, where the Los Angeles Times quoted a source from within the Lakers as saying Kobe was the one who drove Shaq out of town. Up until that point, Kobe had been told by Mitch Kupchak and the rest of the Lakers' brass that any insinuations about him driving Shaq out of town were coming from the media.
I think he gets a worse reputation than he deserves. He kind of seems like a decent guy, and I think he is actually underrated as a basketball player. He is twice the defender Nash and Nowitzki can ever dream to be, and no one seems to recognize just how much Kobe carries his team night-in and night-out. Those other guys had really good supporting casts, while Kobe carried the Lakers to fourth place two years ago with a team that had Smush Park as its third best player. How he did not win that year was astonishing to me. He scored 81 freaking points in a game. I don't know how someone can accomplish that, win the scoring title on a sh!tty team that he had to carry and still not be considered the most valuable player.
