Where does Kobe Bryant rank all-time?

[hiphopanonymous]

I miss the threads about Kobe. One of the greatest of all time no question in my mind. Among the very top at hardest working, and an extremely intelligent player as well. A superlative athlete in his younger years as well. Ungaurdable with how much skill he had at scoring. Where do you guys rank him all time and why?

[Kiddlovesnets]

12.

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[Gudo]

Olajuwon, kobe, duncan to me are interchangeable at #9-11 all time.

[SouBeachTalents]

11th

[hiphopanonymous]

I rate by position and as far as players that primarily were shooting guards go I'd have to say:

MJ
Kobe
West / Wade

If we lump all guards together

MJ
Kobe / Magic
West / Wade / Robertson

Curry is of course building his case for consideration among the top but I don't think he'll reach Kobe levels on my list

[Kiddlovesnets]

I rate by position and as far as players that primarily were shooting guards go I'd have to say:

MJ
Kobe
West / Wade

If we lump all guards together

MJ
Kobe / Magic
West / Wade / Robertson

Curry is of course building his case for consideration among the top but I don't think he'll reach Kobe levels on my list

You are delusional if you think Kobe is at Magic's tier, hes on Oscar's tier at best.

[hiphopanonymous]

You are delusional if you think Kobe is at Magic's tier, hes at least 2 tiers below.

Well then I guess I'm delusional because I don't have any problem putting him on Magic's tier - both for different reasons. Prime Kobe could play elite on both ends of the ball and had as high an impact in his prime as almost anyone - mostly from scoring mixed with an elite blend of all around abilities. Magic was the best open court facilitating player ever and as dominant a mismatch at guard as anyone - who could score pretty damn good too if he wasn't looking to pass first. Both were either the main reason or extremely crucial to their teams winning 5.

[Kiddlovesnets]

Well then I guess I'm delusional because I don't have any problem putting him on Magic's tier - both for different reasons. Prime Kobe could play elite on both ends of the ball and had as high an impact in his prime as almost anyone - mostly from scoring mixed with an elite blend of all around abilities. Magic was the best open court facilitating player ever and as dominant a mismatch at guard as anyone - who could score pretty damn good too if he wasn't looking to pass first. Both were either the main reason or extremely crucial to their teams winning 5.

Magic is consensus top 5 all time, Kobe is #12. Theres definitely a tier between Magic and Kobe, yes you are delusional if you think Kobe is anywhere close to Magic. As all-time Laker, its comparable 'cause Kobe spent more years with Lakers. But on all-time NBA, not even close. Overrating Kobe on the tier of Magic, is no different from overrating Lebron on the tier of MJ.

And nope Kobe was not anywhere near extremely crucial in the 2000 title run, he averaged 15ppg on 36% FG and could be replaced with the likes of Jerry Stackhouse and the Lakers still won. It was Shaq's one man show that year, Kobe only stepped up since 2001. Magic was absolutely crucial in all 5 championships of the Show time Lakers, Kobe was at most in 4 of his Lakers title runs.

[Manny98]

10th

1. MJ/LeBron
2. MJ/Lebron
3. Kareem/Bill
4. Kareem/Bill
5. Magic
6. Duncan
7. Bird
8. Shaq
9. Kobe
10. Hakeem/Wilt

[red1]

I love kobe



I hated on him because he used to shit on us like it was his full-time job (it was)



there hasnt been a player NEARLY as fun to root against since kobe.


curry is a bitch and so are kd and kawhi, so there you go.



you can call kobe anything but you cant say he was a bitch.

[Rysio]

Only really LeBron and Jordan and kareem had better career. At worst top 5 to me.

[2much_knowledge]

From 9 to 5. Depends on your perspective

[HBK_Kliq_2]

I love kobe



I hated on him because he used to shit on us like it was his full-time job (it was)



there hasnt been a player NEARLY as fun to root against since kobe.


curry is a bitch and so are kd and kawhi, so there you go.



you can call kobe anything but you cant say he was a bitch.

If Kawhi was a bitch, he would of joined the bitch LeBron on the Lakers. People forget that LeBron was begging Kawhi to join lakers while Kawhi was still on Raptors.

Kawhi just didn't want to carry Trashcal Siakam for the rest of his life and didn't want to play for the rebuilding spurs, perfectly reasonable.

[elementally morale]

Top 10ish. Not top 5, surely top 15. Somewhere around 7-12. Good enough.

[highwhey]

he's top 12-15