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Smush Parker responds to Kobe Bryant
Former LA Lakers point guard Smush Parker is calling out Kobe Bryant for being a diva who treated his teammates like crap -- and it comes just hours after Kobe blamed Parker for costing him a huge trophy 7 years ago.
Parker played with Kobe during the 2005-06 season, and tells TMZ the Lakers great is only lashing out because he once dared to say Kobe was "overrated" as a teammate.
Parker's never explained what he meant by that, but now tells us ... Kobe "told me out his own mouth that I couldn't talk to him. That my accolades under my belt weren't deserving enough for me to talk to him." He also says Kobe didn't talk to most of his teammates.
Parker says he's opening up about Kobe's diss because Kobe told reporters earlier today ... he lost the '05-'06 NBA MVP trophy to Steve Nash because he was surrounded with no-talent players that season.
Kobe said, "I tell Steve, you won MVP, but I was playing with Smush Parker."
Kobe piled on more, saying ... "He shouldn't have been in the NBA but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard. So we let him walk on."
Parker, who's currently hooping overseas, says his stats prove he was far from "the worst" ... as Kobe claims ... and adds, "People lie, numbers don't."
Read more: [url]http://www.tmz.com#ixzz292JiguJ3[/url]
Link: [URL="http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/11/kobe-bryant-los-angeles-lakers-smush-parker/"]http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/11/kobe-bryant-los-angeles-lakers-smush-parker/[/URL]
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Who's this Smush Parker guy?
Thank Kobe for making him relevant again.
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It's no secret at all that Kobe's a dickhead. Always has been, always will be.
It's also no secret that Smush wasn't a good player. However, he has every right to air his own dirty laundry. I'd love Smush to just come out at some point and talk about exactly what was going on on that Lakers team.
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"told me out his own mouth that I couldn't talk to him. That my accolades under my belt weren't deserving enough for me to talk to him."
That nikka is just sensitive, He should have never called Kobe overrated
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[QUOTE=SpecialQue]It's no secret at all that Kobe's a dickhead. Always has been, always will be.[/QUOTE]
Really, nothing more need be said. Yet this thread will go 50 pages.
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Re: Smush Parker responds to Kobe Bryant
Old news Parker said all this stuff a long time a go.
And go check Jordan's track record on his relationship with teammates. Same crap.
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I think the whole "hating" on Smush Parker as a basketball player and not being good is kind of tough.
He actually averaged pretty decent numbers while he played on those teams. I understand that numbers do not show the number of bone headed plays he made, but he was a very serviceable NBA player.
There is a lot of serviceable basketball players that come and go. He is just one of them. However he does not deserve the hate from Kobe Bryant.
Don't blame your own faults as a basketball player on other players. If you are truly as great as you say, you need to back it up with your playing and not your cocky mouth.
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Regardless of whether Kobe is a dick or not, Parker was not really NBA caliber. Third string point guard maybe, but he was not capable of running an NBA offense or bringing any sort of positive offensive or defensive play, as evidenced by the fact that he was gone only a season or two after he left LA before he even showed any sort of decline.
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[QUOTE=hipballinjigga]I think the whole "hating" on Smush Parker as a basketball player and not being good is kind of tough.
He actually averaged pretty decent numbers while he played on those teams. I understand that numbers do not show the number of bone headed plays he made, but he was a very serviceable NBA player.
There is a lot of serviceable basketball players that come and go. He is just one of them. However he does not deserve the hate from Kobe Bryant.
[B]Don't blame your own faults as a basketball player on other players. If you are truly as great as you say, you need to back it up with your playing and not your cocky mouth[/B].[/QUOTE]
Wait what? Are you referring to Smush or Kobe?
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[QUOTE=crisoner]Old news Parker said all this stuff a long time a go.
And go check Jordan's track record on his relationship with teammates. Same crap.[/QUOTE] Sensitive much? You're like Kobe's own personal online body guard
"And go check Jordan's track record on his relationship with teammates"
How old are you?
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ok do u want a nice guy who sucks or a dick whos top 10 all time and won you 5 rings??
who cares about kobe's attitude
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Parker wasn't really an NBA caliber point guard as evidence by how he was out of the league when he went to Miami. I think there's always been beef between them so Kobe is just letting it out :confusedshrug:
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idk, i find it kind of funny how kobe is taking so many shots at smush over the last couple years. like he's not even asked about the guy...he just brings it up. i think he likes seeing his response and tormenting him in some weird way :oldlol:
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For an overweight scrub, Smush sure does talk a lot.
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[QUOTE=blacknapalm]idk, i find it kind of funny how kobe is taking so many shots at smush over the last couple years. like he's not even asked about the guy...he just brings it up. i think he likes seeing his response and tormenting him in some weird way :oldlol:[/QUOTE]I'm a huge Kobe fan but this should be below him. He's made it, he's a big named player destined to go down as one of the greatest to ever step on the court yet he still gets into these petty moments where he feels the need to step on some no-names throat just because he can
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BluntBE
(Love the honesty and pure bluntness of Kobe)
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Can't say I'm surprised.
We all know about Kobe's attitude and that he and Smush never got along.
Smush should be smart about it and write a book. He'd make a lot of money, or get sued for defamation of character...either way he should get his story out there.
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[QUOTE=TyroneNBAFan]Can't say I'm surprised.
We all know about Kobe's attitude and that he and Smush never got along.
[B]
Smush should be smart about it and write a book. He'd make a lot of money, or get sued for defamation of character...either way he should get his story out there.[/B][/QUOTE]
Exactly. And if he got sued, it's be a ton of free publicity: "Read the book that Kobe doesn't want you to see!" I want to know the full story, dammit.
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i respect kobe's greatness but god, he is so spoiled when it comes to having great teammates. basically, of his 15 year career, only 2 years he had a cast which could be classified as below average. the other 13, his cast has ranged from pretty good to completely stacked.
really, let it go kobe. guys like lebron and GP and tmac have played with casts just as bad, for much longer.
GP made the playoffs with Shard Lewis, Ansu Sesay, Ruben Patteson, Brent Barry, and earl watson as a top 6 rotation guy. GP ran with that squad 3 years. Even he didn't cry like Kobe.
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I get Kobe doesn't care too much about the media hating him, but why's he acting so classless and childish. It's been over 6 years since you played with Smush, why's he bringing it up again. It's good he's honest and all, but some things should just be said in private. No need to belittle Smush.
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Smush is irrelevant these days so what does he do? He talks bad about Kobe. Now he's relevant again. :applause:
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[quote]It's no secret at all that Kobe's a dickhead. Always has been, always will be.[/quote]
[quote]Really, nothing more need be said. Yet this thread will go 50 pages.[/quote]
No people really need to get this. People need to understand that Kobe is a poisonously bad human being and that it takes his team almost as many steps back as his sheer skill and talent bring it forward.
I have never heard anything like that before. I have played with huge egos, and of course all the greats have huge egos. 40 year old MJ called Kwame Brown a "flaming f@gg0t" once. But that's nothing like the smoldering disdain that Kobe has for everyone besides himself that isn't intensity, and not even ego, but a guy whose soul has turned into a black hole.
And people are like "well he won a title recently, and one time I remember he only took 2 shots in the first half of a game, he was passing, so, um, he gels with his teammates now, big props to Kobe!"
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[QUOTE=hipballinjigga]Former LA Lakers point guard Smush Parker is calling out Kobe Bryant for being a diva who treated his teammates like crap -- and it comes just hours after Kobe blamed Parker for costing him a huge trophy 7 years ago.
Parker played with Kobe during the 2005-06 season, and tells TMZ the Lakers great is only lashing out because he once dared to say Kobe was "overrated" as a teammate.
Parker's never explained what he meant by that, but now tells us ... [B]Kobe "told me out his own mouth that I couldn't talk to him. That my accolades under my belt weren't deserving enough for me to talk to him."[/B] He also says Kobe didn't talk to most of his teammates.
Parker says he's opening up about Kobe's diss because Kobe told reporters earlier today ... he lost the '05-'06 NBA MVP trophy to Steve Nash because he was surrounded with no-talent players that season.
Kobe said, "I tell Steve, you won MVP, but I was playing with Smush Parker."
Kobe piled on more, saying ... "He shouldn't have been in the NBA but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard. So we let him walk on."
Parker, who's currently hooping overseas, says his stats prove he was far from "the worst" ... as Kobe claims ... and adds, "People lie, numbers don't."
Read more: [url]http://www.tmz.com#ixzz292JiguJ3[/url]
Link: [URL="http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/11/kobe-bryant-los-angeles-lakers-smush-parker/"]http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/11/kobe-bryant-los-angeles-lakers-smush-parker/[/URL][/QUOTE]
kobe was right:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:
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[QUOTE=swi7ch]Smush is irrelevant these days so what does he do? He talks bad about Kobe. Now he's relevant again. :applause:[/QUOTE]
:facepalm Kobe was the one who started all this nonsense. Oh well, you guys will defend him regardless of what he does.
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[QUOTE=daily]I'm a huge Kobe fan but this should be below him. He's made it, he's a big named player destined to go down as one of the greatest to ever step on the court yet he still gets into these petty moments where he feels the need to step on some no-names throat just because he can[/QUOTE]
it's true, smush parker cost Kobe valuble championship years and MVP years.
In other words Kobe was playing all-time great level basketball and should have been contending for trophies but was surrounded by scrubs like Mihm, Brown, Walton and Smush Parker.
If it wasn't for smush parker, Kobe could have had 7 rings by now and 2 more MVPs.
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[QUOTE=Nick Young]kobe was right:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:[/QUOTE]
Consider the kinds of perimeter players the Spurs are a perennial title threat with. Roger Mason? Something Green? I can't even remember any of their names. Many of them wouldn't make most teams' rosters. They have Matt Bonner start at C a lot of the time. And who is Kuwai Leonard, and why is he in the NBA, nevermind starting? They make it work because everyone feels like a superstar, or at least like something valuable, on the Spurs. Nobody feels like that on the Lakers, not even all-stars, and it's obvious whenever you watch the Lakers play that the only guys who have ever felt like good players who played with Kobe were Shaq and Derek Fisher (because he will never let anybody convince him that he's actually not very good. It's amazing really.)
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[QUOTE=ihoopallday]I get Kobe doesn't care too much about the media hating him, but why's he acting so classless and childish. It's been over 6 years since you played with Smush, why's he bringing it up again. It's good he's honest and all, but some things should just be said in private. No need to belittle Smush.[/QUOTE]
I think it's cause Smush dissed him in a interview he had first. Kobe didn't talk about Smush until now.
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talk to him about what though exactly?
If Kobe's saying you can't even talk to me, you're below me in a normal two guys talking sense... that's weak.
If Kobe's saying don't talk to me about how to play or how to run the team, etc in that context, then yeah Smush doesn't have enough under his belt to talk to him about that.
Never heard anything but positive about Kobe from the many people I know who have met him or worked with him... find it a little farfetched with no context. was told directly from a former NBA front office guy, Kobe was the best guy to work with out of anyone he dealt with on the regular. Patient, understanding and always lived up to his obligations without bitching or complaining like the majority of players.
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[QUOTE=KingMichael23]I think it's cause Smush dissed him in a interview he had first. Kobe didn't talk about Smush until now.[/QUOTE]
Kobe continuously brings him up. It's gotten to the point where it's embarrassing to see Kobe acting like this.
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Fu*k smush parker:lol
Scrub.
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If a guy who was a million times better than you told you that you suck (and it was true), would you have nice things to say about him? People are taking too much from this.
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[QUOTE]told me out his own mouth that I couldn't talk to him. That my accolades under my belt weren't deserving enough for me to talk to him. [/QUOTE]
If he had that big a problem with it he should have done something then and there. Not bring it up in the media years later. Bill cartwright told Jordan he would break his legs when he disrespected him.
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[QUOTE=SpecialQue]Kobe continuously brings him up. It's gotten to the point where it's embarrassing to see Kobe acting like this.[/QUOTE]
When did he bring up Smush before?
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So Smush is a ***** and Kobe is a ****. 2 things I knew already.
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[QUOTE=EricForman]i respect kobe's greatness but god, he is so spoiled when it comes to having great teammates. basically, of his 15 year career, only 2 years he had a cast which could be classified as below average.[/QUOTE]
And that was his own doing! He thought he could do it alone and found out otherwise and he tries to blame it on his former teammates and the front office. Typical Kobe!
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the honeybadger doesn't give a F, it just do whatever he wants to.
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[QUOTE=KingMichael23]When did he bring up Smush before?[/QUOTE]
Here's one from 2011:
[url]http://gotemcoach.com/post/14220866075/the-realest-kobe-is-the-kobe-that-swears-kobes[/url]
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[QUOTE=SpecialQue]Here's one from 2011:
[url]http://gotemcoach.com/post/14220866075/the-realest-kobe-is-the-kobe-that-swears-kobes[/url][/QUOTE]
pretty sure he brought him up at his UCSB camp a couple years ago too. or maybe that was kwame...but he certainly doesn't shy away from bringing it up
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From 2009, talking about Deron's situation of being elite and not surrounded by enough talent, and if it was similar to his situation before:
[url]http://lakersblog.latimes.com/lakersblog/2009/04/lakers-practice-lets-talk-about-rebounding-fouls-shannon-brown-trevor-ariza-and-mario-lopez.html#more[/url]
[QUOTE]"It's not even close. They don't even have Smush Parker on (that) team. It's not even close." [/QUOTE]
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Another 2011, when discussing Melo:
[url]http://isaiahpaviacruz.blogspot.com/2011/01/kobe-comments-on-carmelo-destroys-smush.html[/url]
[QUOTE]Kobe: Then Denver will make the right decisions, bring in the right personnel and he