Kobe vs. Larry Bird

[Godfather]

Can any of these Kobe nuthangers post a video of all the Kobe playoffs heroics? We're talking games where he dropped 50+, went shot for shot with a superstar rival, series winning shots, finals heroics...that sort of stuff.

Kobe's playoff heroics include staring at Shaq while he attempted free throws.

[Psileas]

Originally Posted by lolwut
you put bird's slow set shooting ass in today's NBA and he couldn't make a practice squad. Kobe is exponentially better than Larry Bird.

Since the average person who believes that Larry Bird "couldn't make a practice squad" doesn't even know what "exponentially" means, I initially thought you were kidding. I still hope you are. Bird played some of the best games of his whole career against athletic teams, like Altanta and Portland.


by torch you mean hit some jumpers, and none of those players aside from Rodman, and Pippen were exceptional defenders...and Bird did not regularly torch Pippen and Rodman...not at all.

And aside from...(who exactly?), none of today's greatest athletes playing at SF are exceptional defenders, either. BTW, the whole "he'd routinely get his shot blocked" is a completely trash argument, overall. There's no player in NBA history with a scorer's mentality who had his shot blocked routinely and even the players who did get blocked quite a lot (like Iverson or, among big guys, Malone) were never restrained from shooting and never stopped shooting and improving because of this. Bird was one of the tallest SF's ever (even by today's standards), had one of the quickest releases ever and was one of the smartest and toughest players ever, and you're implying that because he'd get occassionally blocked (which he did, even in his day), that would in some way affect his overall status and that he'd feel any awe at all? Hell, even weak Euros with bottom athletic ability are able to hold their own because of their smarts and good shot and Bird couldn't? Not gonna happen.

[Lakas Fan Yo]

Larry Bird in his prime I think was better than Kobe of today. He and Magic just had something unique, some kind of special way of seeing the game, like a special ability to feel the game more than anyone else.

BTW, IMO Bodiroga was the closest thing I ever saw to Bird.

[Sir Charles]

Bird could not be guarded by Scottie Pippen, Rodman, Clyde Drexler, Nique Wilkins, Chambers, James Worthy....fast enough? :confusedshrug: and in the Post we went against Barkley, Grant, Antoine Carr, Caldwell Jones, Kevin Willis, Buck Williams, Rick Mahorn...Big enough? :confusedshrug:

End this...Its insulting Basketbal...kids go watch Dunk Contests and Sprints...:violin: