Kobe Bryant wearing Air Jordans in Games

[nermindee]

Originally Posted by Swerv1n

SHAQ N LEBRON......f*** LA......Akron, OHIO STAND UP......Its our time now...!!!!!!!!

hahahaha i guess its ok to dream.

 

[nermindee]

Originally Posted by never wear them


is this really still going on?.... lol.

What a lot of you ppl are not seeing is that Kobe is DOING what he's doing against MORE/FAR ADVANCED PLAYERS THAN BEFORE.......
Put MJ in his prime in this era against Kobe, Lebron, Dwight, Shaq, Wade, and so many more great players...
The NBA is a lot more talented than before..... MJ was all alone back then...

Kobe... one of the greatest, period.... Top 2 and thats for sure. Hate it or Love it. that simple.

haha dude y are you even trying to explain things to closed minded people? it aint gonna work with these butt hurt kobe haters hahaha.

 

[mamba bean]

Originally Posted by xsalvioutlawx

Seems like the only reason all of you hate on Kobe is because you're insecure. You hate to see someone that good.

Hated him since he came into the league, didn't flop.

Gets better every season.

How can you keep hating on that? The fact that he keeps getting better and better.

lol @ Kobe has to many flaws to his game and doesn't shut up his critics. He just won ring number 4 without Shaq, kobe being the clear leader.

The %#$@ are you guys talking about.

People hate Kobe because they claim he wants to be MJ. Well, last time I checked, everyone wants to play like MJ. People are just salty because Kobe's the only person in the world that's actually that good.

Lay off the hate and acknowledge the legend in the making.

Quoted for the mutha bleepin truth.

 

[enrique23]

Originally Posted by Swerv1n

When his own shoe line is a joke. Always has even when Nike didnt want em. Weakest Nike line EVER....IMO

is that why kobe outsells lebron? and outsells mj in asia?

Lebron has his own identity
is that why he wears #23? you think that he didn't know it was MJ's number?
is that why he stole KG's chalk ritual?

I judge my sports heroes and who's jerseys i'd buy from player attitudes, personality and then performance

if you like MJ so much, you must think MJ was the greatest on and off thecourt?

dlsilva21 wrote:

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dlsilva21 wrote:

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If you read "The Jordan Rules" it does a good job of showing his relationships with his teammates and his desires to not only win, but to be the focal point of attention.

He knew he was great and he showed that he knew. Yes, he was a jerk to a lot of his teammates. His argument most of the time was their lack of effort. It does tell of him being kind in a few instances and doing random acts of kindness for his teammates too.

Yeah, I just quoted myself... here's so quotes from the book:



"We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs...Can Pip keep it up?"

"I hate being out there with those garbagemen. They don't get you the ball."

"They've got no idea what it's all about. The white guys, they work hard, but they don't have the talent. And the rest of them? Who knows what to expect? They're not good for much of anything."

"I know what's gonna happen. We'll wait until the last minute and then they'll say something like they couldn't get a deal done because of the cap or somebody pulled out at the last minute. It happens here all the time. I don't know why I'm surprised every year."

"He can't do anything with the ball. Don't give it to him." - Michael yelling at Paxson who passed the ball to Perdue

"You ever hear of a guy, six-eleven maybe and two hundred sixty pounds, a guy big and fat like that and he can't get but two rebounds, if that many, running all over the damn court and he gets two rebounds? Big guy like that and he gets one rebound. Can't even stick his **** into people and get more than that...Big, fat, fat guy. One rebound in three games. Power forward. Maybe they should call it powerless forward." - Michael ripping Stacey King a new one

"He was scared in there and panicking. He just lost it when Stockton scored." - Michael on B.J. Armstrong's mental fragility

I'll let them stand up and take responsibility for themselves."

"We have to do some things. We need to make some changes."

"...I call them 'the Looney Tunes.' Physically, they were the best. Mentally, they weren't even close."

"He's scared. He's got no heart...Nobody told me that. If I had spoken up, he wouldn't have been here."

"I know I can recognize what to do, but I'm not sure they can."

"It's a hell of a lot easier to make Earl Monroe look good than it is Brad Sellers."

"I hope there's a jumpshot in there." - Michael to Stacey King who was walking into the locker room with a box

"They don't need a ticket to watch you sitting on the bench. They can go to your

house for that." - Michael to Charles Davis who was sorting through his tickets for his family and friends

"Give me the ******* ball." - Michael to Doug Collins who drew up a play for Dave Corzine

"I hate when I have to read that in the papers the next day, that I couldn't do something. It wasn't my fault."

"You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you." - Michael to Horace Grant

"If you [pass the ball to Bill Cartwright], you'll never get the ball from me."

"We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams."

"Headache tonight, Scottie?" - Michael asks Scottie, while showing him his 2-for-16 line

"It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up." - Michael on a ten-day contract teammate

"Five more years and I'm out of here. I'm marking these days on a calendar, like I'm in jail. I'm tired of being used by this organization, by the league, by the writers, by everyone."

"They're not interested in winning. They just want to sell tickets, which they can do because of me. They won't make any deals to make us better. And this Kukoc thing. I hate that. They're spending all their time chasing this guy."

"If I were a general manager, we'd be a better team."


"Will Vanderbilt. He doesn't deserve to be named after a Big Ten school." - Michael on Will Perdue

"I want to prove the critics wrong...I want to see some serious moves from management, which I really haven't seen that much of yet, and I want to see more serious attitudes from my teammates this year when it comes to the playoffs. In the past, it's been more or less a joking thing, sort of a 'Well, we're here, so let's have a good time.'"

"I'm sure everything will be fine if we win, but if we start losing, I'm shooting."

"I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our strength is."

"Your boy doesn't want to play. I'm tired of bailing his @$% out." - Michael yelling at Jim Cleamons about Dennis Hopson

"I don't know about trading a 24 year-old guy for a 34 year-old guy." - Michael questioning the Oakley trade

"He's causing me too many turnovers." - Michael on Cartwright's inability to catch

"Why the hell don't you ever set a pick like that in a game?" - Michael yelling at Perdue after also hitting Perdue upside his head (led to the institution of the private curtain for practices)

 

[jreese44]

French Blue XII's and Laker III's are tough!!

 

[hypent500]

we should move this topic in the kobe forum and leave the jordan forum for jordan fans. oh that's right, kobe's so great and he's as good that hehas his own forum. oh i also forgot that no one really gives a damn that kobe won a championship unlike when jordan won his rings. hands down jordan is thegreatest player and hand it to kobe in a heartbeat. there will never be any dmp packs of kobes accomplishment unless you want to see wack kobe kicks or jordanretros in laker colorways........

 

[davis]

Originally Posted by Swerv1n

Originally Posted by xsalvioutlawx

Originally Posted by hypeNT500

when mj came on the scene he was unlike no other in the nba as he represented himself and his game was unique. kobe's game is an exact copycat of mj. kobe even has the nerve to wear mj's kicks. mj wore mj shoes that nike and tinker made for him. i just don't see how people are nut ridin' kobe when he's a fake variant of what mj paved for future players to follow. when i think of a great player i look as a dominant player and their achievments. kobe got his first ring without shaq but the teams he played were garbage. mj won his rings without a great teammate(unlike shaq being the greatest top five centers to play the nba)and he did it 6 times........

That's the best argument you could come up with?

There's always an excuse to every one of Kobe's championships. Gosh lets all look for reason to discredit Kobe Bryants Career!
I'm sorry that you feel ONLY because Kobe and the Lakers won the championship this year, the competition was not up to par.
Had Lebron James and the Cavs been the victor, nobody would be saying that, but because it's Kobe...

hypeNT500's argument is dead on....

even if the Cavs had won i'd still admit the NBA was its weakest i've ever seen it at. Its safe safe to say whoever won got lucky it just so happened to be LA.

When u have 3-4 of the top NBA players injured...KG, Yao, TMac etc thats saying alot especially if they had been playing. You get TMac and Yao in those playoffs and LA goin fishin.

As for the whole Kobe identity and career....I'm not a huge Lebron fan (and i live in Akron Ohio) but i love my cavs. But at least Lebron has his own identity and disreguards ANY comparisan to MJ cause he knows he will NEVER meet the MJ standard. Its like Kobe looks for the comparisan and fuels it. Its like he really believes he is on par to MJ which makes him look stupid and cocky. And since Kobe thinks he meets the MJ standard i judge him based on that. So in my opinion Kobe is garbage straight up. Everyone wears J's but Kobe be actin like he made JB what it is. When his own shoe line is a joke. Always has even when Nike didnt want em. Weakest Nike line EVER....IMO

I judge my sports heroes and who's jerseys i'd buy from player attitudes, personality and then performance. Would never buy a Terell Owens jersey or a Ron Artest or Pacman Jones, Mike Vick....etc. But last on the list is Kobe Bryant for obvious reasons other than on the court stuff (i.e. rape case). I see right through his money and fake persona. I would never let my son wear a Kobe jersey.

Good Luck to Yao Ming.....i know your career aint even close to over. You'll get through this

dude....first of all, you're wrong. second of all....what grade are you in....i know we make mistakes, but spelling the same word wrongTWICE....cmon dude....

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[and1 cizzle]

Some real tension here!

 

[the fame]

Originally Posted by Nermindee

Originally Posted by never wear them


is this really still going on?.... lol.

What a lot of you ppl are not seeing is that Kobe is DOING what he's doing against MORE/FAR ADVANCED PLAYERS THAN BEFORE.......
Put MJ in his prime in this era against Kobe, Lebron, Dwight, Shaq, Wade, and so many more great players...
The NBA is a lot more talented than before..... MJ was all alone back then...

Kobe... one of the greatest, period.... Top 2 and thats for sure. Hate it or Love it. that simple.

haha dude y are you even trying to explain things to closed minded people? it aint gonna work with these butt hurt kobe haters hahaha.

Blasphemy.
Are yall serious?
Never Wear Em I am dissapointed sir. You got all them kicks and dont even know the story behind them.

Please tell me the above is a typo.
Jordans Draft Class is considered the best of ALL-TIME!

 

[pmacvilay]

those IIIs are ridiculous

 

[eeibaby]

Originally Posted by never wear them


is this really still going on?.... lol.

What a lot of you ppl are not seeing is that Kobe is DOING what he's doing against MORE/FAR ADVANCED PLAYERS THAN BEFORE.......
Put MJ in his prime in this era against Kobe, Lebron, Dwight, Shaq, Wade, and so many more great players...
The NBA is a lot more talented than before..... MJ was all alone back then...

Kobe... one of the greatest, period.... Top 2 and thats for sure. Hate it or Love it. that simple.

Top 2 for sure? Blasphemy

 

[92]

I hate kobe, but Kobe's jordans are definetely sick.

 

[jordanpheen]

Originally Posted by eeibaby

Originally Posted by never wear them


is this really still going on?.... lol.

What a lot of you ppl are not seeing is that Kobe is DOING what he's doing against MORE/FAR ADVANCED PLAYERS THAN BEFORE.......
Put MJ in his prime in this era against Kobe, Lebron, Dwight, Shaq, Wade, and so many more great players...
The NBA is a lot more talented than before..... MJ was all alone back then...

Kobe... one of the greatest, period.... Top 2 and thats for sure. Hate it or Love it. that simple.

Top 5 for sure ? Blasphemy

fixed

 

[nicekick81]

kobe + air jordans =

 

[swerv1n]

Originally Posted by nicekick81

kobe + air jordans = an MJ imposter......a very bad one.....

fixed

 

[blakmn89]

frenchies w/da blue lakers jersey is wet n i kno kobe was happy wen he signed w/nike

 

[bossjulio]

Originally Posted by stevesteve72

Ivehademall wrote:

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The problem I think many of us older (I'm 30) fans have is that Kobe = copycat MJ. Everything about him in the begining of his career until only recently was about copying MJ's stye. I mean there are 1000 examples I can think of, but look at him in those french blue 12's....Mj wore tall baggy socks with that model and so what does Kobe do?....take a look @ the pic in this very thread. His walk, they way he speaks in interviews....pretty much everything is MJ. I dont have the interview but he even admits to studying MJ. I know I'm not alone on this. The younger generation seems to only know MJ from pics and old game videos and doesnt notice this as much or at all....

Kobe = wannabe.

Whats wrong with wanting to be like mike?


agreed

 

[xsalvioutlawx]

Sup Swerv1n?

Take a deep breath: aknowledge, accept, move on.

Every season Kobe gets better and gives haters less and less reasons to hate on him about. It's time to accept the greatest of the era after MJ.

I know it's painful for you to comprehend, but every season that passes by Kobe continuously makes haters like you look bad.

Kobe 4, Haters like you 0.

 

[davis]

^

. co-sign. kobe haters are ridiculous....

 

[hypent500]

that's how bad the nba is now. the best of this era was a far second wannabe mj. mj was soo of the hook we still need a forum about his achievements howmany freakin' years after he retired talking about some loser that gets lost in mj's shadow. i swear i sometimes wish there were enough ball riders tomake a place for kobe fan's to celebrate his wackness and leave everyone else alone with his garbage and his mj wearing shoes. no one great nba playerwould ever say kobe over mj EVER.......

 

[jbautista23]

Originally Posted by Swerv1n

Originally Posted by nicekick81

kobe + air jordans = an MJ imposter......a very bad one.....

fixed

 

[l0peter0l]

Jordan is the best~

 

[travman24]

How come so many hate Kobe because he plays like Jordan? How come LeBron doesn't get nearly as much hate for this? Didn't you all want to be like Mike?If you had the ability wouldn't you play like Mike? Yall need to pull yall skirts down an get off the mans back for modeling his game after the greatestever.

 

[cutepoison]

great pictures, great choices for kobe

 

[bdis1986]

[color= rgb(255, 255, 0)]Lock this !+$* more arguing then pics... seems thats all kobe brings...[/color]