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Kobe Bryant The Most Selfish Player in the NBA[/h2]
We all remembered just five years ago he scored 81 points against the Toronto Raptors—and he took 46 shots and 20 rebounds (more than have the shots taken by the rest of his teammates).
For eight years (from 1996 to 2004) Kobe formed a dynamic duo with Shaquille O’Neal and
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dominated the basketball world winning three consecutive NBA Championships (2000, 2001, 2002) and making an NBA Finals appearance in 2004 (which they loss to the Boston Celtics). Both he and Shaq could have dominated the NBA world for much longer—had he not been an egotistical, selfish pre-Madonna. He couldn’t handle sharing the spotlight with Shaq. Alongside O’Neal, Kobe could have easily won more than three championships. But we all know how the drama played out—there would only be one alpha-male in Tinsel Town. As if his ego wasn’t big enough Kobe gave the Lakers Organization an ultimatum they had to make a choice—it was either him or the diesel. The Lakers eventually traded O’Neal to the Miami Heat and rewarded Bryant with a hefty $136 million dollar contract.
Talk about kicking a guy when he is down, Kobe decided to throw Shaq under the bus even further as was evident in an police report affidavit while battling what became public knowledge of the first of many indiscretions (Vale Colorado, sexual assault case, Vale Colorado in 2003)—he went on record saying he should have paid off his alleged accuser like Shaq does with all his women—paying off some of them with upwards of $1 million to keep quiet.
The feud between Kobe and Shaq became so toxic that former Lakers head coach Phil Jackson wrote a tell all book called The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul –detailing how unruly, selfish and how much of a pre-Madonna Kobe Bryant really is.
http://blog.mad4flash.com/2012/02/kobe-bryant-the-most-selfish-player-in-the-nba/
nice thanks for the clarification.
