He Played Dirty and *Ruined* The End of Kobe’s Career

He Played Dirty and Ruined The End of Kobe’s Career

Рет қаралды 64,978

4 ай бұрын

Don’t miss out on all the action this week at DraftKings! Download the DraftKings app today! Sign-up using dkng.co/korzemba or through my promo code KORZEMBA
In 2011, Kobe had his final shot at matching Michael Jordan with a 2nd three peat. But, when the 2011 NBA Playoffs came around, Andrew Bynum and the Lakers had other plans...
He Played Dirty and Ruined The End of Kobe’s Career
The Real Ones Follow Me On Twitter @MikeKorz
SUBSCRIBE TO MY 2ND CHANNEL! bit.ly/SubKorzemba
And If You Love The NBA, Then Subscribe For More Content! bit.ly/1JWANP0
#nba #nbahighlights
Follow Me on Social Media!
Twitter: / mikekorz
Instagram: mikekorzemba
Twitch: / mikekorzemba
Snapchat: Korzemba
I love the NBA and I love to make NBA Videos. On my channel you will find NBA What Ifs, NBA Conspiracies, NBA History, and anything else I can think of that will keep you entertained. Subscribe if you want, I would love to have you join my channel!
BTS Prolog by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Source: freepd.com/Unclassified/BTS%20...
Artist: incompetech.com/
Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER.
18+ in most eligible states, but age varies by jurisdiction. Eligibility restrictions apply. Valid only in states where DraftKings Pick6 operates. Pick6 not available in all states, including, but not limited to, CT and NY (for up-to-date list of states please visit pick6.draftkings.com/where-is-pick6-available). Void where prohibited. See terms at pick6.draftkings.com. 1 deposit match offer per new Pick6 customer. New customers will be eligible to receive a deposit bonus equal to 100% of the customer’s first deposit on Pick6, up to a max. of $100 in Pick6 credits. Min. $5 deposit. Bonus issued as Pick 6 credits, which are site credits that have no cash value, are non-withdrawable, and must be played-through 1x before any related winnings can be withdrawn. Entry fees not included in winnings. Pick6 Credits expire 4320 hours (approximately 180 days) after being issued and are only valid for use in Pick6 contests. Promotional offer period ends 3/31/24 at 11:59 PM ET. See terms at pick6.draftkings.com/promos. Sponsored by DK.

Пікірлер: 297

@MikeKorzemba 4 ай бұрын

Hey Guys! Don’t miss out on all the action this week at DraftKings! Download the DraftKings app today! Sign-up using dkng.co/korzemba or through my promo code KORZEMBA -MIKE

@YourboyEJ_lowe 4 ай бұрын

Just sharing you this, as Romans 6:23 says, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. God loves you so much that he sent his son Jesus Christ to die on the cross to pay the price of all our sins. After 3 days after he died,he rose up from the dead. He will accept you not matter what you been through or have done. Accept the lord Jesus Christ as you lord and savior and ask forgiveness of all your sins to be saved from sin and have eternal life and not go to hell Jesus is our only hope for salvation and the if you don’t accept him you will not heaven and you will go to hell if you don’t accept Jesus

@PitBullSamiTut 4 ай бұрын

Next video - LeBiogenesis

@yungslic5363 4 ай бұрын

If it wasn't for David Stern (we know why he vetoed the CP3 trade it's because of the Colorado incident) Stern didn't want Kobe to win more rings and he didn't want LA vs Miami for four consecutive years. Imagine Kobe, CP3 and Dwight vs Miami's LeBron, Wade and Bosh

@farakhhanif 4 ай бұрын

It goes both ways... Stern also made sure that the Sacramento Kings got screwed in the 2002 Western Conference Finals, because he wanted the Lakers in the finals for ratings. How often has the league made sure that Lakers got favorable treatment on the court where it wasn't caught?

@alexishernandezdejesus5269 4 ай бұрын

So the Lakers get mad when the NBA doesn't revolver around them 🤔

@dougdickason 4 ай бұрын

I think it was more personally selfish on Sterns part as i believe NO was under league ownership, and Stern had an eye of leaving his spot as comish to become partners in owning NO, and he felt losing Paul was not something he wanted.

@arizonaFIREent 4 ай бұрын

Stern did everything in his power to help the Lakers win yall so delusional

@dougdickason 4 ай бұрын

@@arizonaFIREent why did he veto the trade of Chris Paul to the Lakers then. Its one thing to say he did everything to HELP the Lakers but then give no EXAMPLES of such help.

@_XAV_ 4 ай бұрын

They did him dirty. Best player during the best era of basketball🔥

@KaoticReach1999 4 ай бұрын

I wouldn't say the greatest era, unless you were born before Michaels (The GOAT that Kobe looked up to) reign, but Kobe is definitely in the top 3 if not best

@BayAreaHoops415 4 ай бұрын

The 2010s was sure as hell not Kobe's era lmao

@ihonestlydontevenknow4359 4 ай бұрын

hell no he wasn’t. in the “kobe era”, outside of 2006, and even that’s debatable, he was NEVER the best player in basketball. shit, for the first 4 years, he wasn’t even the best player on his TEAM (that was shaq). when shaq left, duncan and lebron surpassed him. shit, dirk had a year where he was the best player, besides maybe lebron. i will agree the 2000s were the best era of basketball, but the 90s were tied with it too. kobe definitely was NOT the best player though.

@Guts_Sins 4 ай бұрын

@@ihonestlydontevenknow4359 just tell us you smoke dope and keep it moving. your trippin if you think he wasnt the best player at the time ever. just blind hatred man. Whats the career high kob dropped on your fav team? and did you watch? genuinely curious

@saurus7707 4 ай бұрын

Greatest of all time you mean

@TraGamer1606 4 ай бұрын

I have been a laker fan for a long, long time. But that was easily the most painful los in the playoffs. I experienced it's the only one that actually made me cry. At the time, I was so angry that I actually cheered on by them. As he threw JJ

@jaridatkinson4907 4 ай бұрын

I was mad too getting swept like that was crazy

@kristophercrater1901 4 ай бұрын

When Shaq went to Miami they had a no fly zone code for Kobe going into the lane and getting knocked out. JJ kept going into the lane. Bynum literally did what Shaq wanted to do to Kobe when he was in Miami.

@026martin 4 ай бұрын

@@kristophercrater1901 Is a 'no fly zone' when you are too lazy, untalented or stupid to be in a position to challenge the shot legally and make a play on the ball so you lash out in frustration and claim to be 'sending a message'?

@kristophercrater1901 4 ай бұрын

@@026martin I would ask the Pistons with the Jordan rules first. I think that happened many times to him

@RemoWilliams1227 4 ай бұрын

@@kristophercrater1901waaaay worse than this, Mike used to get clobbered by the Pistons in the late 80s.

@atribecalledlen3567 4 ай бұрын

An old CP3 helped James Harden to game 7 of the WCF. A prime CP3 AND Kobe at the very least wins at least 1 chip

@rayhanusmanu6457 4 ай бұрын

10:20 73% from 3 is insane

@xavzerrek2743 4 ай бұрын

JJ was cooking with that floater

@newthrash1221 4 ай бұрын

His floater was deadly, that I do remember lol.

@brionearts 4 ай бұрын

Always good when Mike drop a video

@user-sp8pc3kb9f 4 ай бұрын

4 min long intro (ad) followed by a KZfaq ad is crazy bro

@AggravatedMan365 4 ай бұрын

Remember it was Dan Gilbert who was still salty over LeBron leaving him that sent an email to David Stern, saying the owners shouldn't allow this to happen. It was already a done deal.

@kristophercrater1901 4 ай бұрын

Yep. Then he got Lebron, Kyrie and Levin Love

@kevinestes9800 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, it was pretty suspicious how the Cavs won the draft three of the four LeBron Heat years and the Hornets won it the other year. When you think of it, AD was very much a consolation prize for getting screwed out of that trade. And when the Lakers got good again Kobe got far less calls than he used to (in that series against the Suns the SUNS got more favorable calls much of that series, especially the Sasha "flagrant" on Dragic, the softest "flagrant" EVER, which almost resulted in the Suns coming back and tying the series, along with the uncalled foul that resulted in the Artest putback game winner, also the numerous "long twos" from the three point line in game four to start the game). They were clearly trying to make it easier for LeBron to win a ring and for MJ to stay the GOAT (he owned the Bobcats at that time, and he was known to make questionable trades/decisions in order to preserve his legacy, such as letting Tyson Chandler go to Dallas, even if they hurt his team).

@Bizzyy305 4 ай бұрын

Rip Kobe

@RobertHenderson.poopiebear 4 ай бұрын

That's your best video in a while! I LOVE when you do NBA conspiracy theories! Awesome job Mike

@user-jw5qj8kv2y 4 ай бұрын

It's no secret that veteran point guard Chris Paul's NBA career would have turned out differently if his trade to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2011 had not been nullified by then-commissioner David Stern. Paul and Kobe Bryant, along with star center Dwight Howard, whom the Lakers did acquire in the summer of 2012, would’ve been an interesting trio. Perhaps they would’ve teamed together to bring the Purple and Gold at least one more Larry O’Brien trophy.

@him37404 4 ай бұрын

He would’ve just got injured and held the team back

@1vaultdweller 4 ай бұрын

CP and Harden didnt work, why would CP work better with Kobe when Kobe is a lot ball dependent

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

@@1vaultdweller 2018 rockets???

@1vaultdweller 4 ай бұрын

@@theonlygoodonehere2259 Did they make the finals?

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

@@1vaultdweller injuries is why

@emaan3259 4 ай бұрын

If Kobe completes that 2nd 3 peat he has a really good case for goat argument but it’s crazy how tons of people leave him out the top 3 or 5 or 10 players ever & that 1 loss would’ve definitively changed everything

@Truthorfib 4 ай бұрын

They leave him out cause of Shaq. Unlike with Jordan, it was always clear Jordan was the best player in the team.

@Carolinagunsmoke 4 ай бұрын

@Truthorfib it was clear kobe was the best ....were you blind? Shaq was just bigger than everybody else not better...Kobe avgd 28 and 30 ppg as a "second option". Shaq knew he wasn't better than Kobe neither.

@KhanDon 4 ай бұрын

@@Carolinagunsmoke Lol, if Kobe was clearly the best, he would've won 3 FMVPs... Seems like Shaq won all 3 during the threepeat tho 🤷‍♂️

@Carolinagunsmoke 4 ай бұрын

@@KhanDon you sound uneducated in basketball knowledge bucko....Shaq clearly had the better match ups against Rick Smits , Dikembe, and Todd McCullough. FMVP isn't indicative of anything since Jerry west won one in a losing effort......TRY AGAIN

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

@@Carolinagunsmoke kobe literally choked away a 2004 finals series...

@J17ER 4 ай бұрын

💯 what a great video dude. Being a fan and remembering going through the emotions in that time got me so anxious and just sad. These are the details lebron fan boys don’t know and probably never saw basketball during that time. Had that cp3 trade happen none of the aftermath would had happen and would had easily win 2 more chips. It is what it is and Kobe still had a legendary career with 5 chips.

@joshuasmith4894 4 ай бұрын

That playoff game against the Dallas Mavericks for Kobe‘s career. I never forgot that game. It broke my heart with Andrew Bynum elbow, JJ Berea in the ribs. My heart shattered because the game was already over. 😢😢

@donavonhoward114 4 ай бұрын

They had no issue with Lebron and Bosh going to Miami to join D Wade, but God forbid Kobe (the best player in the league) get the chance to play with Chris Paul as his PG. That would have automatically been the best guard combo in league history. I think Chris Paul would have fit perfectly with Kobe because Chris was a facilitator as much as he was a scorer, and Kobe also was great at knowing when to take a step back to facilitate. Both guys were also killers on the defensive side of the ball, and would have been perfect defensively to defend the newer era of perimeter guards who were coming up during the 2010's. The league was also going to get smaller and smaller. However the rest of that Lakers roster would have filled out, it would have been a thing of beauty, but the league wanted to turn the page from the Kobe era as soon as possible. That's really what it was. They had this guy they wanted to build up in Lebron James, and they didn't want Kobe in his way taking titles away from their so-called king. The Big 3 partially formed because of Kobe winning back to back championships in 2010, and because they wanted an easier road to the Finals. Kobe was so great that the league itself was trying to stop him from winning more, and one guy can only do so much against such a force of opposition. Phil Jackson's departure due to aging and health complications didn't aid the Lakers fortunes at all either. By the last 2 or 3 years of Kobe's career, he was stuck with a bunch of millenials, and journeymen. Still, Kobe remained loyal to the Lakers, and didn't run away from any challenge. That Colorado case crap took Kobe from the face of the league, to becoming loved, and hated on a whole other level. That's the only reason why Kobe wasn't promoted as the face of the league after that despite being the best player by a mile. Lebron was the so-called chosen one for a reason. The league brass wanted to manufacture a face to try to replace MJ, and Kobe went from being that guy to being in their way. The league, and their media outlets didn't bank on Kobe persevering through such adversity and winning those last 2 championships. That just made the plan into a code red situation where they had to find other ways to shut down the Mamba.

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

lebron and bosh signed there, not get traded there

@rjmacready9828 4 ай бұрын

I have no doubt cp3 and kobe win a ring together Cp3 + harden = one game away from beating arguably the best team in nba history Cp3 + booker = nba finals Imagine if he had kobe, who's a million times better than both

@1vaultdweller 4 ай бұрын

Ball dominant stars never win with another Ball dominant stars.

@RJ_824 4 ай бұрын

warriors, heat, lakers stars have@@1vaultdweller

@theoneandonlythebolt8817 4 ай бұрын

@@1vaultdwellerThat wouldn’t be the case in that instance but ok sure I guess, but you have to admit if Cp3 and Kobe healthy they would’ve been scary

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

@@1vaultdweller 2018 rockets would have disproved that, if cp3 never got injured

@1vaultdweller 4 ай бұрын

@@theonlygoodonehere2259 We dont argue about events that didnt happen :D

@SamuelSanchez-dd7cm 4 ай бұрын

David stern f'ed everything ...

@joyis9638 4 ай бұрын

rigged a lot of series and lotteries

@SPCPeeplesSoldier 4 ай бұрын

@@joyis9638hell yeah and did also he was scared of Jordan I remember he was doing all of the gambling David Stern didn’t give no fucks about it

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

@@SPCPeeplesSoldier he wasn't scared, he just likes black guys like jordan

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

@@joyis9638 Adam Silver is the same tbh

@nathanielpotts2556 4 ай бұрын

Rip david stern, but he definitely took some skeletons with him to the grave

@KaoticReach1999 4 ай бұрын

Lmao the irony of KZfaqrs that are promoting gambling sites having their sponsorship video with a # for "if you've a gambling problem" "If you don't, we're paying these KZfaqrs to try and make sure you do"

@mikael557 4 ай бұрын

Sometimes 💰> Values

@Coolmike19 4 ай бұрын

I remember that trade and the NBA veto it dn. Now these guys can go anywhere 😕

@CDdaBoss Ай бұрын

Mike I’m not letting you slide for linking this to a Giannis highlight

@bensimmonsfor3332 4 ай бұрын

It's funny how many lakers fans think the nba is against them.

@dionicio24 4 ай бұрын

I’m ngl bro I feel like Stern would’ve done that with any team if the trade didn’t fit his plan

@AlexStarks-en5ez 4 ай бұрын

they couldnt let kobe be better than jordan but why?!?!?!

@neugey 4 ай бұрын

Also ruined the end of Phil Jackson's career. The derision Stern showed toward Phil was something serious.

@silvianosanchez8430 4 ай бұрын

Laker fans cannot complain. The league took a championship away from the Sacramento Kings when the league wanted the Lakers to win.

@bytheriverinpeace2301 4 ай бұрын

i thought you were gunna talk about dahntay jones repeatedly stepping under kobe's feet when he shot throughout their battles against each other.

@jaridatkinson4907 4 ай бұрын

As a laker fan I was hella pissed he did that smh

@hoosierdaddy5846 4 ай бұрын

They did this for lebron.. the NBA has bent over backwards for lebron ever since

@MikeZ-cz 4 ай бұрын

Lakers due to their market, popularity, media narratives is the most priviliged franchise in the NBA..even when they suck they are in the center of attention..

@Marco-uh5zn 4 ай бұрын

The name of former Laker Gasol is Pau, not Paul

@alibassim2876 4 ай бұрын

We need a what if Chris Paul was traded to the lakers video

@AyeAshh 4 ай бұрын

They did bro dirty man

@NSGyato 4 ай бұрын

Hey your next video should be about “ why is everyone hating on the 80’s and 90’s ball “ cause boy the internet have been at Michael Jordan’s neck 😂😭

@jackyparkchan7762 4 ай бұрын

11:20 😂

@bsq_2x70 4 ай бұрын

They didn’t want Kobe to be that face over MJ (not saying I agree) because he caught that case. Those of us who live through This knows what it was

@SPCPeeplesSoldier 4 ай бұрын

Wow this is so Sad 😞 and yes I do believe David Stern did this to boost the hornets and the clippers I’ll never forget that game he tore his Achilles I felt so bad for him ❤️ and then Dwight Howard just wasn’t the right fit for the Lakers 🤦🏾‍♂️

@brionearts 4 ай бұрын

& if they get cp3 they still had the assets to pull off the Dwight trade

@777RL 4 ай бұрын

Bynum was making a comeback in 2019.

@kcccwhey6368 4 ай бұрын

He should’ve won multiple mvps that the league gave to nash and nowitszki. That is blatant evidence against the league right there

@brauprx 4 ай бұрын

It's always an interesting story all this CP vetoed trade and the Lakers falling in 2011 to never come back in that era. I am a big Kobe fan and a Laker since I started watching NBA games in the early 90s (since 2019, I'm not rooting for the Lakers for obvious reasons) and felt like something went behind Stern's reason to deny that trade, but at the same time I don't think the league took the chance from Kobe to legitimate catch up with Mike, because Kobe played in 7 finals (one more than Mike) and lost two of them, so I feel he had the chance but for one reason or another (injuries on Malone and Bynum in each one of them, maybe) he came up short as part of the team.

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

if bynum was there, we wre still annihilating lakers, they beat us in 2010 because oerkins was out in game 7 and poor officiating

@thestrengthreport7517 4 ай бұрын

@@theonlygoodonehere2259That’s revisionist history. The Celtics were up 3-2 and chocked game 6. So before we get to talking about game 7 and officiating. Just remember the Celtics dropped the ball by not winning when they were up.

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

@@thestrengthreport7517 when pop saw spurs struggling in game 4 of the series of the 2014 wcf vs okc at okc's homefloor, he didn't make a counter, because he needed the team to fail, so that they start hot and fresh and surprise coach scott in game 5, which they did and won by nearly 30, doc rivers may not be the best of coaches, and he is known for not making adjustments, but he used to do the same thing, a team needing to fail in 1 finals eries game to start fresh and hot with surprise the next, that happened in game 6, its a celtics team facing a hungry lakers team, in a time when teams didn't break rules to destroy an opponent in a 5 series game in the finals, its 2 hungry teams going at it, with lakers having a top pf guy with good role player guys, and one of the greatest player guys of all time in history, ofc it will be a long battle, wym, it doesn't erase that game 7 terrible officiating, and doesn't erase that celtics would go back2back if the game was called right

@donkarnage6032 4 ай бұрын

Chris Paul going to the Clippers had ZERO to do with the meteoric rise in the teams value. It was the departure of Donald Sterling that caused the team to suddenly rise in value as Sterling was intentionally depressing the value so he didn't have to pay his players.

@ZigZags805 4 ай бұрын

Dhantay Jones ATL game

@kmusic5944 3 ай бұрын

i mean the league helped the lakers so much in the early 2000s ...so it balances out

@watup730 4 ай бұрын

Si it was 2011 to 2012 the lockout

@StinkyCashFlatEarth Ай бұрын

the W in Nowitzki is pronounced like a V

@johnnysocket76 4 ай бұрын

Man this reminds me of how close we were to seeing a Kobe vs Bron finals. So close.

@AndrewL31413 4 ай бұрын

What we got was better. Dirks redemption against the Wade and the big 3.

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

@@AndrewL31413 2012 finals not 2011, pay attention

@MitchMitchellStories 4 ай бұрын

I still don't understand why Stern vetoed the trade. Has that ever happened before and afterwards? I didn't get to see the rest of the team implode with all those intentional fouls since I live in New York, so seeing them breaking down like that is shocking.

@deonlepharaoh 4 ай бұрын

To me, as a mavs fan at the time, I thought it was bs that a team operated by the league was handing cp3 to the Lakers to give them more championships

@Fernando_616 4 ай бұрын

The league owned the team and unofficially cited "competitive balance." They were totally ok with him going to the then lowly Clippers

@MitchMitchellStories 4 ай бұрын

@@Fernando_616Hmmm... I wonder if Stern was still alive if he'd have blocked Durant going to the Suns, even if it didn't turn out how they expected it would.

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

@@MitchMitchellStories no, he tried to help kd get to the finals during his time as commissioner

@StephenTommyCurry30 4 ай бұрын

David Stern caused Kobebryant for the injury

@Youngkel95 4 ай бұрын

10:22 but somewhere out there it’s a fool saying pau was just as good as Kg 🤣 yea right

@MiamiHeat22 4 ай бұрын

KG has 1 ring. Regular season gets you nothing. If you omit the regular season, Pau is much better than KG

@Youngkel95 4 ай бұрын

@@MiamiHeat22 and what would pay have without Kobe? 🤣 nothing. He was barely making the playoffs. Go learn your history dude before u comment back. U show how uneducated u are. You part of the 5% of fools who actually think gasol Better 🤣 stop it man

@Boe3 4 ай бұрын

If Kobe wore high tops they would’ve prevented him from that Achilles injury something similar to the Kobe 1s or 2s

@Thewolf_365 4 ай бұрын

Nope Kobe shoes didn't cause Achilles injury don't be silly !!!! Please explain how Kobe low tops cause Achilles injury

@Boe3 4 ай бұрын

@@Thewolf_365 there was a study linked to this by a Sports Med Steven Rowson look that up

@Boe3 4 ай бұрын

@@Thewolf_365 there was study linked to this by Dr. Steve Rowson

@Boe3 4 ай бұрын

@@Thewolf_365 there was a study linked to this look it up it’s by Dr. Steve Rowson

@Boe3 4 ай бұрын

@@Thewolf_365 High-top shoes significantly reduced peak Achilles tendon tension by an average of 9.9% when compared with low-top shoes.

@sirboxalot6654 4 ай бұрын

Legend there’s only two Mike and Kobe

@samuelhabakuk8265 Ай бұрын

Goh

@hurricanewayne7463 4 ай бұрын

Most of what you said was valid but that last lebron saved them was so off. I liked your what if videos better, & I'm reminded of why I watch Skap attack more than any other sports talk channel on KZfaq

@iNewgz 4 ай бұрын

Buh

@alexgrissom3513 4 ай бұрын

I can't see Kobe's tattoos and not think of the autopsy diagram photos

@AggravatedMan365 4 ай бұрын

Weirdo

@Truthorfib 4 ай бұрын

@@AggravatedMan365more of traumatized. When a veteran for example thinks of exploding body parts when he hears a balloon pop no one calls him a weirdo. Same situation here the dude is traumatized seeing kobe’s autopsy.

@jonwest5289 4 ай бұрын

Only a fking wierdo would seek that out. I never seen that ish and I'm not gonna search for it.

@wftorres3913 4 ай бұрын

i think if the trade had pushed thru,,yeah Mamba could have gotten at least 1-2 more wc would have been awesome ,i love KOBE RIP but im an MJ23 guy , and Kobe could have passed the reigns to CP3 for the Lakers . And then they allowed that superteam to get through for Miami wc Stern love for #LeBALCO

@GHOSTFIRE2944 4 ай бұрын

KOBE

@Himjuice 4 ай бұрын

You should post that LeBron ped video you posted and deleted a few years back

@loganhuston1009 4 ай бұрын

The NBA destroyed Kobe’s career

@randomguy-hc4tc 4 ай бұрын

I would go even further and say if he never got that injury he would never have retired early and he never would have gotten in that helicopter😭

@splakacheus 4 ай бұрын

Do not gamble. Gambling is bad.

@Justin_Watson23 4 ай бұрын

This isn't the person whose legacy they were trying to protect (or continue to manufacture). If Kobe gets 6, you have two guys you can hold up as competitive legends as the banner carriers of the NBA. How would that cost the NBA anything? Kobe talked about how the "NBA didn't want parity" & that's Chris Paul trade got vetoed. Who had just created a superteam & theoretically ruined parity in the league? Oh that's right, Jason Terry's son Lebron. At the time, Kobe & the Spurs core was aging, no knowledge of what the Warriors would become, & "King James" just had such a massive meltdown that he solidified Dirk's legacy. If LeBron got not 5, not 6, not 7, but zero - that's a disaster for the NBA, mainstream sports media, & Nike who had spent the better part of a decade pumping him up as "Next". The NBA has been intervening on LeBron's behalf since he quit partway through game 6 in Boston in 2010.

@ayodeniji4586 4 ай бұрын

David Stern really fucked everything bro

@RJ30000 4 ай бұрын

KOBE💍💍💍💍💍

@KobeKid248 4 ай бұрын

My Goat #mambaforever 🐐

@marcomcdowell8861 4 ай бұрын

Good ol conspiracies.

@pdubbs88 4 ай бұрын

So they literally did a lockout which kills attendance numbers just so Kobe wouldn't win more than MJ? I mean the CP3 trade is more believable but my understanding was keeping Stern couldn't loose value $ in the team and trading CP3 would have been just that.

@solsoul6669 4 ай бұрын

It wasn’t for mj that they tried to put down Kobe, it for lebron. As they wanted to the narrative to be between lebron and mj not know and mj. Kobe’s success was ruining that the validity of that argument.

@titusjackson6072 4 ай бұрын

That lakers squad was full of these kinda guys. Ron, lamar, Andrew, etc

@Boe3 4 ай бұрын

Now imagine if Draymond Green, Grayson Allen, and Beverly in the same team today 😂

@FarhanAli-zx1lg 4 ай бұрын

I don't know if he screws Lakers but he surely screwed my rockets back then I was glad that we didn't get Paul gasol but boy I was wrong Paul was a student of the unlike Dwight Howard. Paul gasol wasn't a lock down defender like Dwight but he worked very hard on that end of the floor a became a champion twice Dwight was just ok doing gym cardios as his skill and did nothing to improve his offensive game his weak link. After all these years David's sterns tyranny his haunt me as we were deprived of the greatness of an already and true hall of famer Pau who would've done everything he could to fill yao's shoes for us ❤

@joyis9638 4 ай бұрын

Phil Jackson called the Bad Boy Pistons bad for the NBA BUT ..... those Pistons NEVER did anything as dirty as the cheap shots in the Dallas - Los Angeles 2011 play offs.

@gaberox1 4 ай бұрын

Are you kidding me did you watch basketball in that era? That was normal in the playoffs test the lane and it's face to the floor. The Pistons used to terrorize young MJ.

@rootsman99 4 ай бұрын

Dirtiest play in NBA?? Not even close

@RayrayTMP 4 ай бұрын

I DO think the league sabatoged Kobe's final years, but NOT to upsell the Clippers. It was more a marketing move to pass the torch and "Face of the League" title to a younger talent- in this case LeBron. The league executives clearly showed they were ready to move on from the Lakers and to the next big marketing plan.

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

yo, david stern kept trying to make a kd vs lebron matchup over and over again, I remember they were trying to make a replacement of larry bird vs magic johnson rivalry, but injuries and popovich developing the young guys with good role guys following it prevented it as well, and also prevented lebron from being looked at as the next jordan guy preventing a 3 peat

@corey2232 4 ай бұрын

I'm a Mavs fan, but the veto'd Chris Paul trade still pisses me off. The NBA robbed us of a prime Kobe playing with Chris Paul. Considering what the league became, with star players picking their team-up spot to create super teams, it's even more annoying that Paul wasn't able to play with Kobe. At this point in time, it wasn't about keeping MJ their "poster child," it was about trying to push Lebron. People today think the media & fans have been overly-critical of LBJ, but for the first 7 years of his career, he could no wrong. Problem was Kobe was still widely considered the best player in the league, but the NBA had already anointed Lebron "the King," yet he still hadn't won an NBA ring.

@dunkvondoom2392 4 ай бұрын

I whole heatedly believe CP3 going to the Clippers was better for him than the Lakers

@SPCPeeplesSoldier 4 ай бұрын

Why you say that ?

@kineahora8736 4 ай бұрын

Dirtiest play? This guy never heard of Kermit Washington or saw any of Draymond green or Ron Artest’s career. Or Laimbeer or Rick Mahorn I guess…

@AndrewL31413 4 ай бұрын

The game was over, and the series. Hard to argue a straight up dirty play. He wasn’t even trying to hide it.

@spahinho7 4 ай бұрын

Bynum foul was horrible, deservedly flagrant 2, but Odom on Dirk earlier might be the softest flagrant 2 ever

@GhettoGynecologist 4 ай бұрын

I hated JJ Burea we literally couldn't stop him....but i hated bynum too...they definitely ruined kobe too they never wanted him to pass Mike.... the NBA killed him...

@SwagnerCountsThings 4 ай бұрын

No franchise has a bigger victim mentality than the franchise David Stern wanted two of smh "My ideal finals is the Lakers versus the Lakers"

@sa1sa624 4 ай бұрын

Dirk would have us in playoffs

@AlexStarks-en5ez 4 ай бұрын

kobe is already one of the few with a 3 peat on their resume jordan is the only one with 2 do the math

@bradenkalke2500 4 ай бұрын

Another example of ppl just saying random shit lmao 🤣 Pippin also has 2. So Jordan's not the only one. Bill Russel had 6 threepeats, although that's more than 2.

@1vaultdweller 4 ай бұрын

You mean Shaq's side kick. Kobe had 0 fmvps during the 3 peat😂

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

@@bradenkalke2500 6??????

@GhettoGynecologist 4 ай бұрын

And dont forget MIKE wanted his HORNETS back whatever MJ wants he gets....he brought the MONEY the game

@Ricanfresh561 4 ай бұрын

Dey did da same wit Bron n his mvps even if u don’t fuk wit Bron u can’t convince me on why he hasn’t won a mvp in over 11 years 🤣🤣 da nba neva gone let someone outshine Jordan smh

@maddoxedwards6464 4 ай бұрын

Dirk the goat # MFFL

@Himmyhardaway_Bh 4 ай бұрын

I believe it true they didn’t want to ruin mikes legacy just like they want to do with bron also you can never pass Mj up you can’t do for the game what MJ did and that’s the deal to be in the conversation to be close but never get there …. They know why cause bron would of had to compete with a prime Kobe which he was never ready for the Olympics showed everyone even bron that HE WAS NOT THERE YET AND IT WOULD RUIN THE NARRATIVE OF HIM CHASING GHOST AND GIVING TIME TO CATCH UP BUT WITH KOBE HE WAS GOING TO KEEP EXCELING AND BEING GREAT

@dme1236 4 ай бұрын

After That 2012 Series Against The Mavs Its Been Downhill For The Whole Lakers Franchise Till This Day. Bubble Ring/19-20 Season Was The Only Good Team. Only Season The Franchise Wasnt Dysfunctional Lol 😂

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

2011, not 2012

@dme1236 4 ай бұрын

@@theonlygoodonehere2259 Damn My Bad Always Get Those Years Screwed Up

@theonlygoodonehere2259 4 ай бұрын

@@dme1236 I mean still same result, they played like trash against thunder, only kobe did good, but also 2012 lakers were much worse than 2011 lakers

@Sith-Happens 4 ай бұрын

Bro Odom was a known alcoholic and drug menace and the rest of the players offered in the CP3 deal were nobodies. The NBA can’t have small market teams be farm systems for the Lakers like it has always been (view Shaq,Paul Gasol, Dwight Howard, Lebron James) Lakers and other L.A. team don’t develop talent they buy them and Kobe was just mad they didn’t allow it for him

@bbt0101 4 ай бұрын

"When LeBron James finally saved them" What? First season he was in LA they missed the playoffs lol

@imyugimuto 4 ай бұрын

David Stern screwing over teams & players? Say it ain't so

@DevicCypher 4 ай бұрын

Everyone know the nba has been rigged for a very long time. The nba just think we are stupid and says Nuh uh

@ismailyusuf355 4 ай бұрын

Wtf Donald sterling sold the team in 2014 for 2 billion$ how the fuck was it worth 500 million in 2014

@user-ms2hb8wn2v 4 ай бұрын

Definitely was foul play smh

@willdavis6502 4 ай бұрын

No it’s not way worse plays

@juanneilo4124 4 ай бұрын

*Lebron didn't Save the Lakers it's Davis

@ryanstewart6873 4 ай бұрын

So Kobe was unable to understand his body and listen to others... Totally everyone not named Kobe Bryant fault.

@just-trust-in-your-own-way 4 ай бұрын

If we are honest, Kobe has 4 titles. The league gave them Lakers that 02/03 win vs the Kings, cause they simply had too many foreign players. The NBA is an entertainment league. Poorly, in our world, that means, some adjusting, for the 'benefit' of the league.

@onizodd 4 ай бұрын

Yet the spurs, with many foreign players, seemed to win or make the finals every other year 🤔

@Reereez4795 4 ай бұрын

Seeing Lakers fans pity themselves as if the League hasn’t been in their corner for YEARS is laughable. What happened here was another shady dealing by Stern, but it wasn’t “tO sToP tHe LaKeRs.” No, it was clearly a business deal. A shady one, and unfortunately one that affected Kobe’s remaining prime, but nothing INTENDED to undermine the Lakers. Still, I don’t love it, and I don’t blame Lakers fans for being upset. But the narrative that the League didn’t want to see the Lakers succeed is beyond laughable