Hakeem Olajuwon vs. Kobe Bryant

[Lebron23]

Who's the better individual player?

Both are 1x NBA MVP, and 2x Finals MVP. Hakeem was a former defensive player of the year.

The Black Mamba vs. the Dream.

[feyki]

Hakeem easily .


[COLOR="White"]Both far better than Leballoon ..[/COLOR]

[ArbitraryWater]

Anyone taking Bean is one mindfcked motherfcker

[rmt]

Always go with the big man - more impact - especially one so great defensively as Hakeem.

[scuzzy]

Hakeem, better on both ends

[KiiiiNG]

Hakeem and it's not even remotely close

[BlakFrankWhite]

Hakeem

[Im Still Ballin]

Hakeem

Shows you how it's less about volume of rings and more about the individual and what said individual accomplished in an isolated vacuum. Stats help illustrate this.

Duh

[scuzzy]

Whelp that's a 8-0 sweep


Homerun ruled, Hakeem wins

[Lebronxrings]

10th best player > 12th best

[Dray n Klay]

LOL, Hakeem even if he was injured and couldn't walk

[greatest-ever]

Hakeem is clearly the better player, he had a 3 year stretch(93-95) that Kobe never really came close to, however based on career accomplishments i can see why someone would want to have Kobe ahead all time, even though i wouldn't agree with it.

[ISHGoat]

As players? Easily Olajuwon.

[lakers_forever]

Hakeem is clearly the better player, he had a 3 year stretch(93-95) that Kobe never really came close to

Really?

Playoff Stats Year-by-Year

2008
30.1 ppg 5.7 rpg 5.6 apg 48fg% 30%3P 81%FT 58TS% 51eFG%

2009
30.2 ppg 5.3 rpg 5.5 apg 46fg% 35%3P 88%FT 56TS% 49eFG%

2010
29.2 ppg 6.0 rpg 5.5 apg 46fg% 37%3P 84%FT 57TS% 51eFG%

2x NBA Champion
2x NBA Finals MVP
1x NBA MVP
1x All Star Game MVP
3x All NBA First Team
3x All-Defensive First Team

There aren't many players who have done better.

Kobe has had one of the best 3 year runs of any NBA player ever.

So we're looking at a three year stretch where he got 30/6/6/2 on 47 FG%, 51 eFG%, 57 TS% including some epic series. 2 rings, 3 finals. Not many have done it better...agreed.

His conference finals series:

29/6/4 53% vs. Spurs (who just a year before embarassed Lebron and were top 3 defense)
34/6/6 on 48% vs. Nuggets (shut down Chris Paul that year and top 10 defense)
34/7/8 on 52% vs. Suns (who after the all-star break were top 5 defense)

Those years were Jordanesque (Jordan > Kobe, before anyone claim I said otherwise).

[lakers_forever]

Not even Kenny Smith claims Olajuwon was better than Kobe.
Second best player in the early 90's: Barkley. Second best player of the late 90's: Malone. Olajuwon was lucky (not his fault, of course, congrats to him) to have peaked when Jordan retired. Olajuwon was never in serious GOAT level discussion when he was playing. People here treat him like he was Kareem or Wilt.