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KOBE 97 SHAQ 92

FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WERENT ALIVE DURING THREEPEAT ERA, KOBE WAS ALREADY WIDELY CONSIDERED THE BEST PLAYER ON THE LAKERS STARTING IN 2001

SHAQ HAD SENIORITY BUT KOBE WAS ALREADY BY FAR THE BEST PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE
Good lord,do you ever stop sucking that mans dikk :scust:
 

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:yeshrug: Revisionist historians and people who didn't even watch basketball back then don't realize how highly regarded KG was. It was understood his situation in Minnesota (lost draft picks, bum ass teammates) is the only reason he wasn't winning on the level of Duncan/Kobe/Shaq
 

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:yeshrug: Revisionist historians and people who didn't even watch basketball back then don'
t realize how highly regarded KG was. It was understood his situation in Minnesota (lost draft picks, bum ass teammates) is the only reason he wasn't winning on the level of Duncan/Kobe/Shaq

Right, like saying Dirk is better than him. Nah
 

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In 2004? They were right where they should be. Kobe was coming off an MVP-level season and Shaq was starting his decline. Looks accurate to me.

Tim Duncan is the one that's really out of place. No reason he shouldn't have been a 95+.


2004 was I believe the year KG punk ass won MVP

Duncan was of course balling same with Jermaine O’Neal

And believe it or not Peja was doing his thing too
 

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KOBE 97 SHAQ 92

FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WERENT ALIVE DURING THREEPEAT ERA, KOBE WAS ALREADY WIDELY CONSIDERED THE BEST PLAYER ON THE LAKERS STARTING IN 2001

SHAQ HAD SENIORITY BUT KOBE WAS ALREADY BY FAR THE BEST PLAYER IN THE LEAGUE

How old were you in 2001 you talking like this? :mjlol:


For the people who haven't had a shrine to Kobe in their room since 2006 (which is blasphemous according to your own faith, I should note), Shaq finished 3rd in MVP voting in 2001 with 578 points including 11 first-place votes. Kobe finished a distant 9th in MVP voting with 11 points, none of them 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place votes. And Shaq won Finals MVP in an easy unanimous vote, he was putting up 33-16-5 and 3 blocks/game against the DPOY while Kobe was getting outscored by Iverson by 10+.

Also, Shaq finished a close 3rd in MVP voting in 2002 with 696 points including 15 first-place votes. Kobe was a distant 5th in MVP voting with 98 points. And Shaq was again the unanimous Finals MVP as well.

2003 and 2004 (after the three-peat) were the first seasons where people even started to question that Shaq was #1 and Kobe was more than #2 or at most 1b. And even then, when it came to the biggest series it was clear Shaq was gonna take them further than Kobe did. But Kobe really wanted to be #1 and so the Lakers' prospects suffered accordingly.
 
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