Kobe isn't that great kids

SO... Anyone who is high, or just an idiot and thinks that Kobe Bryant deserves great accolades showered upon him needs to wake up and unfuck their minds. I had a friend argue that the NBA since Jordan has improved and that Kobe was a better player. I was so angry I could hardly think. He thought that the athletes are SO much better conditioned and of such higher quality. I can't figure out how that's possible. All I know is that the 97-98 Bulls still destroy every team in the NBA without trouble.

Jordan is the greatest player to ever lace-up basketball shoes, end of story. He holds the career highest scoring percentage, but more importantly utterly dominated the NBA during his career. He started out as just being unstoppable himself. You can slurp Jordan's unreal career stats (30.1 PPG, 6.2 RPG's, 5.3 AST, and VERY underrated 2.3 SPG), but his winning is just unreal. He never had a Shaq, he had Luc Longley, Bill Cartwright, and if you want to get technical and call Dennis Rodman a "Big Man" you can count him. Kobe has been surrounded with twice the talent his entire career. Try running the Triangle O with Luc Longley instead of Pau Gasol and let's see how Kobe does. It took Kobe until he was 30 to figure out he's a selfish prick of a player and that his teammates need to ball to do anything.

Lebron James has a legitimate shot to be better than Jordan if he can approach his off-season work ethic, which is unmatched. King James is a physical freak that still has uncanny feel for the game. His career stats are unreal and he already is realizing he needs to step up his D to make his team legitimate. Jordan was simply smarter, and worked harder than everyone else all the time to be the greatest. Jordan played GREAT defense, and inspired teammates with his drive. The athletes may have become more talented overall (questionable), but there's no doubt that defense and core competency have taken steps back (undeniable). Grabbing kids out of college vs. having them stick around for a few years and learn something has taken a toll on the game. The NBA had to institute rules to make scoring easier, see the new handcheck rule that would have made Jordan drop 50 a game. The Piston's committed flagrant 1 fouls vs. Jordan every time he drove the lane, with the new rules Jordan would absolutely be and unstoppable force.

Here's your parting shot to take stock in. Allen Iverson has averaged more points per game than Kobe. I argue that with a real player in the post (Shaq, Gasol, pretty much anyone besides Derrick Coleman, Matt Geiger, and Theo Ratliff), or even another teammate with a lot of talent and he could've done the EXACT same thing. It clearly isn't about scoring, but I'm just saying Kobe's always been surrounded by talent being a Laker, that's totally undeniable, he's just failed to do anything with it since forcing the best thing to happen to him since an acquittal out of town.