2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

he was a blast to root against. we all loved debating his place in the league and the all-time nba. he was a complicated and hugely flawed person who i think had a pretty interesting second act in him, and it's a shame we'll miss it. it's unspeakable for all the families involved. idk. it just feels wrong.

some people don’t respect him because he probably sexually assaulted somebody. It’s really hard for a lot of people to get past. Sorry.

not trying to bring “real talk” to the thread just responding to gd’s post and I already regret it

seems to be one of those cases that has benefited from happening at the time it did. I've been surprised it never became a common talking point over the past few years with #metoo.

I think he finally transcended that, which is hard to do, and like cad said, he was heading in a good direction. i think he wore his crown well and was a model superstar toward the end

kobe so obvs a psycho egomaniac narcissist who made us live through years or winning at all costs a-dog bs cultural pollution and if u think he changed i dare you to watch the childrens show about how to win he made like a year ago

still tragic tho rip

link it if you want... i'm searching out of curiosity

things kobe said after a screening of his animated short at tribecca film festival

that thread title/poll is a better memorial than anything i could post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab7znwmU5LQ

this title is really good too

Why Kobe must strike other players in face?

that kobe quotes thread is prob my fave contribution to ilx despite having < 100 posts rip kobe

the musecage is so fucking psycho my god

theres a good david roth piece on it iirc

https://setmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Kobe-Bryant-Musecage.jpg

i missed this but kobe is really one of the all time GOAT insane people, i love him to death

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 8, 2017 8:03 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Meanwhile my feed is blowing up over the anchor who had a tongue slip and said Nakers and everyone else is saying she said the n-word

oh, kobe. i hope you are with us forever.

― Clay, Monday, September 4, 2017 2:15 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh no :(

thanks thread for reminding me why i have felt devastated and shocked about the whole thing but v ambivalent abt kobe himself

musecage is really one of the most hilarious and perfect concepts anyone has ever presented

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 9, 2017 12:15 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm lol

thanks thread for reminding me why i have felt devastated and shocked about the whole thing but v ambivalent abt kobe himself

― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Sunday, January 26, 2020 10:34 PM (fifty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, that's pretty much it in summation

Kobe for MVP daaaaaang
― m bison, Friday, March 23, 2007 1:24 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

he was good that year

https://media.giphy.com/media/UK5AQccKV9OMg/giphy.gif

not morally, but at basketball

also that was almost 13 years ago holy shit ive been on the internet too long

we all have my man, we all have

we've all done a lot of posts its true

wow and posting up is so outdated in the Modern Data-Driven NBA

lol, good lead in. i was gonna post this anyway--i keep seeing stuff like this on twitter. as bizarre as his public presentation was he seems to have developed quite a good one-on-one touch with all kinds of people

Kobe & Gigi sat with us at a UConn game in March. He somehow talked to our kids as his basketball equals. Told our 10yo, “Keep getting after it, Thomas.” To our tall daughter: “Posting up is the BEST.” He was a Dad with his lovely daughter on a day out. We’re heartsick tonight. pic.twitter.com/oxvi82LRaX

— Steve Rushin (@SteveRushin) January 27, 2020

not trying to bring “real talk” to the thread just responding to gd’s post and I already regret it

No regrets!! #MambaMentality
Seriously that's valid for you to bring up. I should've specified I meant respect as a basketball player.

dame 50-6-13, 1 TO. 158 points in his last three games.

is that good

its a lot of hoop

meant that for the stats thread but whatever

all sports are #stats now

kobe was the last great stats dont matter guy

the amazing thing isn't so much Dame's numbers as the fact that opposing teams are basically free right now to concentrate the entire focus of their defense on him and he still puts those numbers up.

its wild how much better all the greats are than kobe at the advanced stats but he had like 15 all-nba selections, a whole mess of all-defense selections, 5 rings, 2 fmvp, 1 real mvp. kobe's career is a study in contrasts.

xp

yeah his best argument is longevity which certainly isnt nothin

I never really hated Kobe even as a non-Lakers fan not while Derek Fisher was sticking around at least. At the end Kobe was becoming more likable. His final game was hilarious of course.

Second best argument was “I’m not fish“

i think i placed kobe as one of the villains of much of my adult life and i kinda feel like batman w/o the joker rn

kobe meticulously planned then executed becoming more likable i mean cmon ppl right

he was probably the first sports person i truly hated (sports hate). I found him insufferable and thought his final season lovefest farewell tour was a bizarre stain on the league. cad otm i loved cheering against him, more than any other athlete. i loved him on the 08 redeem team. def agree his second act seemed to be headed in a real positive direction. i hope he truly changed his ways after aspen but we'll really never know. news hit me more cos he really seemed to love his daughter(s) and was on the way to her basketball thing...

there's a great what-if scenario with kobe that i'd like to really dig into sometime, like if he had been in a small market and gotten 1 championship in an advantageous year but otherwise put up the same stats how would he be thought of

he just did some weird psycho dad coach shit with his daughters team like 6 months ago

yah if charlotte kept him or something xp