Kobe Says MJ23, KD, Westbrook And He Share Rare Trait

[mastermind]

Aka the psycho gene to greatness or genocide

exactly

thank god he chose basketball and not drug dealing. Kobe would probably have shot up schools if he went down that path.

That's a bit of an overstatement. There are plenty of hypersuccessful people across all fields who are nowhere near as megalomaniacal as Kobe. He's uniquely megalomaniacal, he'd be a perfect case study.

Many would have been the better word instead of most, but they have that flaw that makes them what they are.

As a basketball player, its great. I just fear for dude in anything else he tries in the future.

I would say Jordan is very similar.

 

[boskey]

Mars is named after the Roman God of War, and if you want to be a warrior in the paint you need to go to Mars.[/I] Bynum was on the other end silent for a minute, and then he just said, Kobe... that's deep."

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[Cynical Thoughts]

Ali?

What nickname did Ali give himself?

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

What nickname did Ali give himself?

"The Greatest"

 

[Walt]

I agree, he was corny when he was trying to be the face of the league, once he dropped the act and didn't give a shyt about it he became hilarious.

Yessir.

Many would have been the better word instead of most, but they have that flaw that makes them what they are.

As a basketball player, its great. I just fear for dude in anything else he tries in the future.

I would say Jordan is very similar.

Agreed.

 

[MostReal]

He writing his own history.

he sure is

what's funny though is the media is eating it up & loving it.

 

[Cynical Thoughts]

"The Greatest"

Well, was he? Was that title greatly unwarrented? Are you 'n?

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

Well, was he? Was that title greatly unwarrented? Are you 'n?

No the point, you said you knew of no one who GAVE himself a nickname, I directed you to Ali.

Him actually being the greatest is another topic/discussion.

Now are you?

 

[verbaltelekinesis]

My nikka Bean!

The most self-absorbed person I think I have ever seen. I like personalities where people continually stand on their own 2. fukk what you think, I said what I said and you can eat a dikk if you don't like it.

 

[Bilz]

One of the most contrived personalities the game has ever seen and he says he doesn't give a fukk what people think?

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

One of the most contrived personalities the game has ever seen and he says he doesn't give a fukk what people think?

Kinda reminds me of you.

 

[Cynical Thoughts]

No the point, you said you knew of no one who GAVE himself a nickname, I directed you to Ali.

Him actually being the greatest is another topic/discussion.

Now are you?

I took Ali calling himself the greatest as him calling himself the best or the number 1 boxer. Ali was also a bragger. it was part of his whole mystique/shyt taking. I guess it is sort of a nickname depending on how you look at it though.

Ali = "the greatest", as far as boxing goes is arguable
Kobe=black mamba, no comparison. nikka just thought it sounded cool. Black mambas strike w/ 99% accuracy........

Man law #25 you can not create your own nickname.

2. Kobe's new nickname
An actual excerpt from Ric Bucher's ESPN The Mag cover story about Kobe and Phil (and no, I'm not making this up):

"Granted, there's still a dark side that Bryant embraces. He's known in his inner circle as Mamba, which, he is happy to explain, is a kind of snake that can grow to 13 feet and is one of the world's quickest, and one of the most venomous, serpents. He referred to this summer as the 'blackout,' in which the snake grew a new skin through a seven-days-a-week conditioning program."

Wait, there's more!

Here's Kobe explaining his new nickname: "The mamba can strike with 99 percent accuracy at maximum speed, in rapid succession. That's the kind of basketball precision I want to have. Not being able to train the last two summers, I was in a gunfight with a rusty butter knife. I did my share of killing, but I was just fighting to survive."

All right ...

First of all, I love when any celebrity gives himself a new nickname to change his identity. It's funny when wrestlers change gimmicks and end up with a new nickname, it's funny when Diddy changes nicknames, and it's downright hysterical when an NBA star once accused of sexual assault decides it would be a fantastic idea to embrace the identity of a 13-foot serpent. Second, when they explain the choice of the nickname with a beauty like, "The mamba can strike with 99% accuracy at maximum speed, in rapid succession," and refuse to credit "Kill Bill," it reminds me why I still love writing this column. And third, I don't think this nickname is catching on, since I have been delightedly telling everyone I know about the Mamba story, and nobody has heard of it, so I'm calling Kobe "Mamba" in this space from this point forward. Long live Mamba.

Not saying I hold Simmons in high regard though.

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

I took Ali calling himself the greatest as him calling himself the best or the number 1 boxer. Ali was also a bragger. it was part of his whole mystique/shyt taking. I guess it is sort of a nickname depending on how you look at it though.

Ali = "the greatest", as far as boxing goes is arguable
Kobe=black mamba, no comparison. nikka just thought it sounded cool. Black mambas strike w/ 99% accuracy........

Man law #25 you can not create your own nickname.


Not saying I hold Simmons in high regard though.

Cool, however Ali gave himself his nickname. "The Greatest" is his nickname no matter how you feel about it breh. It is what it is.

 

[malbaker86]

He writing his own history.

for some reason this caught me off guard. The nikka randomly threw KD in there.

 

[swag2011]

You know what's funny about people slandering Kobe for taking credit for giving Westbrook and Durant that attitude? Durant agrees with Kobe himself.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Kobe Bryant isn’t being a vain superstar when he takes credit for instilling a fight-through-it mentality in Kevin Durant.

He’s telling the truth, Durant said.

“I watch guys and I just look at their facial expressions and their body language and I observe them,” Durant, the star Oklahoma City forward, said after the Thunder’s shoot-around Friday. “You look at Kobe, they could go on a five-game losing streak and he could shoot 30% and he has a poker face. He doesn’t let it affect him. You can tell he’s going to come out that next game and play his hardest and go out and produce.

"I’ve been watching him since I was 8 years old. To see that year in and year out and see the success he’s had, you just try to emulate him a little bit. He has that attitude like he doesn’t care, just go out there and play his game, and that’s what I try to do."

Kevin Durant says he learned to shrug off adversity from Kobe Bryant - latimes.com