Kobe Bryant Says Smush Parker Was ‘the Worst’

“This point is astonishingly stupid. Kobe made him better, proof of such is him playing for the Clippers!! hahahahahaha – what? — The only good thing about LA is being in close proximity to Kobe Bryant now? Come on bruh, LOL i am dumbfounded.”

It was a response to “what?”. It shouldn’t be that difficult to follow a conversation about a hobby, online, man.

One last thing, if you can’t take my word for it, take the players’ & coaches’.

Just try to be less of a troll, @disqus_rOeXXBD2qs:disqus.

Do you understand what “microcosm” and “recent” mean?

Shaq anointed him as the best player in the world in 2001, long before either of those examples. Usually, that con-notates a player who is better than others &, in turn, elevates the play of others. By definition (Kareem, Magic, Bird, Jordan, Shaq).

Do you argue for the sake of argument? In an attempt to diminish his obvious positive impacts on the game and other people.

It confuses me to no end how certain naysayers believe that tripe.

Literally every legend and opposing player other than Smush Parker – hundreds – has given Kobe his respect as a player. You think they would do that so reverently if he was basketball’s Narcissus? No. That would be foolish.

Fine. Discount what legends and his own teammates have said many times, historian.

Who did Jordan make better??? This is a dumb question because there both SHOOTING guards…..if there not SHOOTING there not winning

“Are you feeling like you’re going to come back next year?” Jeanie asked me. “Well, not if Kobe Bryant is on this team next year,” I told her. “He’s too complex a person. I don’t need this.” – Phil Jackson.

No the debate was about if Kobe makes his teammates better. Which there is no proof of. Anywhere. – There is plenty of proof that Kobe is one of the best players of all time – Plenty of proof that guys enjoyed playing with him – even proof that he created opportunities for guys to succeed by just being on the court with them – but there is no proof, anywhere, that he made his teammates better basketball players. Bryant has always been about himself, as he would say, “i was shooting 45 times a game, what was i supposed to do? pass it to Kwame” – Kobe looks like a great teammate when things are going well (who wouldn’t) – but when things aren’t, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQS3tGOLfO0

jordan punched teamates and never spoke to rodman. get your facts 1st.

Allen, good to see you’re back

It doesn’t matter…you’re just nitpicking. The point is that he completely disrespected a man twice his size that he’d be seeing very soon-and people don’t forget things like what he said.

Holler

SHOOTING A BETTER % IS NOT THRIVING. IT’S SHOOTING A BETTER %. If you aren’t getting many shots, does that really matter? And since when have you ever played basketball in your life and enjoyed having a teammate who openly didn’t respect you or members of your team as worthy teammates? You know of the things he’s said about teammates, shit he told Smush Parker not to talk to him because he wasn’t accomplished as a player….while they were teammates. How do you tell your PG not to talk to you as the captain of your team? Is that what a good teammate would do? Is he making his teammates better by isolating himself from them and acting like they aren’t worth his time because of their lesser skills? .
Lol their shooting % was better. Yay.
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-”hi me Kwame, did you see I got 5 whole entire shots and scored 7 whole points this year, same as last year…..and in 27 minutes….. which is 6 more than on my previous team and guess what? I made a career high FG% in my extra 6 minutes to score the same amount of points on the same number of shots because I have this great teammate Kobe who only helps my confidence and wants me to succeed” – http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/brownkw01.html

- OH WAIT, TO GET THAT “CAREER HIGH, KOBE MADE ME BETTER” FG%….KWAME BROWN MADE A WHOPPING 0.2 FIELD GOALS PER GAME. .
Please, make educated arguments that aren’t supplied by Kobe apologists who ignore facts to sound smarter. .
Bye.

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Again I never said kobe made anybody better. People make themselves better. I personally don’t really like kobe, as he is too selfish. He does however get scrubs open looks, which any great player does. Any star player is going to demand the defenses attention. Thrive might have been too strong of a word, but when we’re talking about dudes who average garbage stats anyway it was meant as them maximizing their talent. The only way kobe could make others better is by them seeing his work ethic and dedication to making himself better and emulating that. And yeah, my arguements regarding basketball aren’t going to be that educated because im a pretty casual fan. I don’t know any of the numbers to back up an arguement. For the most part slam is my main source of bball. I wish I could watch more, have season pass and all that, but I spend a large hunk of my time in work camps, and when im home it seems like play with me sesame gets higher priority than sports. I have to give you respect for always being well informed regarding hoops, I honestly can’t understand how you always have the numbers to make your point. I do get a kick out of how worked up you get when debating, but that’s usually the case when someone actually knows what they’re talking about and can’t get through to the rest. Regarding playing with someone like kobe, I was that guy when I was younger, but melllowed out after realizing that everyone on the team is a real person and have their own problems and don’t need me bulldogging them. And my teams got way better as a result.

I get what he’s saying. By being on kobes team and seeing how he works he became better, that’s how kobe can make someone better, not as a teammate, but as an example of what you need to do to be better. Just like kobes probably made guys d be better knowing they had to try and shut him down.

Yet Jackson returned after only a single season and they won two championships more. Your point?

According to Yahoo! Sports, LeBron used to be considered such a poor teammate that Colangelo and Krzyzewski were prepared to leave him off the 2008 Olympic team if he didn’t shape up (consequently, Jason Kidd volunteered to mentor him throughout the Games). Just to keep his position on the team.

Obviously he has since changed and matured. The only way you could compare the two is by admitting their similarities of adapting as professionals, which is most important for a teammate to be.

Yeah Kobe… yr the worst!

ByAnyMeansNecessary pretty much said it all here. There’s nothing else to add. And yeah, stop comparing him to Jordan. Kobe’s first 3 titles came with Shaq as Finals MVP each time.

Didn’t Caron win a championship without Kobe on a team that beat Kobe!?! (I know Caron was injured but don’t you think his presence from the bench maid all the Mavs better)

I think Kwame Brown as your starting PF/C and Brian Cook as your back-up is a lot worse than Smush Parker….

I have looked up every statistic i use at some.
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I don’t think you guys are thinking very thoroughly about what “make” means. Is he making someone better by working hard and being observed doing so? Or is what he does just a great example of what players should be doing anyway. It’s not like Kobe takes the young guys and says, “you’re going to work out with me this week, we’re gonna make you a better professional” – he just does his ultra hard work outs and hopefully his teammates watch him and realize they should be doing it to. But he isn’t making anyone anything.

i can co-sign this. Smush is (seemingly) ALWAYS on W4th and he’s a stand up dude. he’ll talk to anyone, and he doesn’t bad mouth anyone. Always gives honest opinions.

sucks that i’m so late to this party. It is silly to compare players’ commentary in today’s age of communication and 24/7 virtual access to players of former (pre-internet) generations. Most of our impressions of 90s ballers were directly influenced by how the media (beat writers etc.) and marketing machines CHOSE to portray them. You can’t say “You didn’t see Jordan doing that!” and expect that opinion to be judged as anything other than a baseless platitude. We just didn’t have the kind of access to players then to judge them on the same scale we judge players now. We do know that Michael punched a team mate in practice, yet he’s viewed as the consummate professional and ultimate team player. I gotta say, I think Money is the greatest basketball player we’ve ever seen on the NBA stage, but his personality is one of the worst! Why does Michael get a pass? Why do we celebrate AI’s heart and dedication when he tried to justify skipping a practice? Everyone else showed up to work and depended on his contributions to team development that day…My point is, our opinions are largely influenced by how certain media machines influence these guys’ image, and it’s so ingrained that it can sometimes cloud our judgement of a player’s on court abilities.I mean, was there a greater chucker than Bubba in his hay? Kobe’s fall from grace was sudden at first, and then long and gradual, and we really see that represented in ppl’s opinions of his on-court play.

great player, just a bit of a prick.