- Jan 2, 2010
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If you can name a team that won a championship while missing a 20+ PPG scorer who leads the team in FG% and blocks, and is 2nd in rebounding, have at it
Woooow
This what the story is gonna be
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Woooow
This what the story is gonna be
- Jun 21, 2009
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Well thankfully RJ Barrett is in Canada.
Never to be seen or heard from again.
Never to be seen or heard from again.
- Jan 2, 2010
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- Apr 16, 2014
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I enjoy all these Kendrick quotables popping up so Rusty can't get away from it. He thought it was over.
MVP
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- Feb 28, 2008
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Folks say people didn’t like Kobe but damn near 3 out of every 5 current hoopers hold him in high regard.
I know it’s proximity, but all the current dudes from the LA area reveres that dude.
He set the trend of low top sneakers. All these cats wearing low tops because of Bean. Dudes stay fronting on here
People weren't yelling VC or Mac when shooting paper balls into the trash can. It's somewhat revisionist history, although I do remember being one of only a few Kobe fans and Laker fans in general back home. But even so, he was acknowledged even then to be the coldest and most exciting player in the game even by the staunchest haters.
- Apr 4, 2016
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I’m not gonna work myself up over it. It wasn’t pretty but a W is a W regardless of how you got it 
Hopefully Game 2 we play like the superior team and eliminate hope
Early
Hopefully Game 2 we play like the superior team and eliminate hope
Early
- Sep 21, 2012
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Hermione
Tonks
16????????
Stay inside
He def stayed inside
Lakers in 6.
- Dec 27, 2012
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elpablo21
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- Feb 11, 2008
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- Jul 18, 2012
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This movie is lowkey toxic ngl
I took a chicks v-card with this playing on the tv.
Thats it, thats the story.
elpablo21
Supporter
- Feb 11, 2008
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I'm tryna tell them, the BET specials get the job done.
Love and Basketball, Baby Boy, ATL, Tyler Perry films. Never not seal the deal with them playing.
- Mar 14, 2010
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I’m from South Florida. VC and Tmac from central Florida. They’re both loved but even Kobe was more popular than them in their own state.
Dwade was the only cat to dethrone him eventually. Kobe was huge in Florida
We’re a football state first and forever. Again, VC and Mac both from the crib and Kobe was still equal or bigger
- Jul 20, 2009
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I am once again begging Meth to let me use the middle finger emoji again.
I'm outchea fighting a war with no weapons
lawdog1
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- Sep 14, 2000
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You’re not accounting for people in their 30s and 40s. People who grew up the Showtime Lakers had a totally different frame of reference for evaluating Kobe from people who weren’t even following the NBA until the mid-90s when Kobe came on the scene.Folks say people didn’t like Kobe but damn near 3 out of every 5 current hoopers hold him in high regard.
I know it’s proximity, but all the current dudes from the LA area reveres that dude.
He set the trend of low top sneakers. All these cats wearing low tops because of Bean. Dudes stay fronting on here
The older demographic group is the group who had more mixed or negative feelings about him during the 1st half of his career.
- Apr 30, 2011
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Count me in that demo. He was a ball dominant, low % guy for a long time and he had Shaq doing a lot of heavy lifting during the first title run, not to mention Phil taking over the team to get it done. Toss in the CO incident and it was pretty easy to root for someone else in neutral games/series.
- Nov 7, 2019
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Speaking of which, for you freaky frogs #OnHere
- Mar 14, 2010
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I’m 36…
I’m not dismissing the guys who watched in the 80s and before. I expect them to prefer Magic, Jordan, bird, etc.
I’m just saying, Kobe got a lot of love. Him and AI were 1)a and 1)a. The cats I grew up with loved Kobe. A few of my friends had the Adidas Crazy 8s, Kobe 1s, etc. before he even joined Nike
- Apr 16, 2014
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Ngl I'm a reformed Kobe hater I buried the hatchet honestly.
I used to talk greasy about that man up here.
- Jun 7, 2014
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lawdog1
Supporter
- Sep 14, 2000
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Then you’re just wrong.
- Mar 16, 2010
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That franchise has got a lot of nerve
- Apr 16, 2014
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Can someone post a new photo so I don't have to see that womans mouth on my screen.
It's creeping me out.
It's creeping me out.
