re: Kobe Bryant's Muse

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See that? That quote you made there? This is a damning opinion. You say none of the stuff you listed on why people hate Kobe matters personally to you.. the quote above completely invalidates that. You are a Kobe hater. You are letting your hate cloud your judgement of how great of a basketball player he is/was. It's what the haters do.

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"Hater" is the dumbest fricking word in any sports debate. I have an opinion that he's not a consensus top 10 player. So I must "hate" the guy irrationally. There's no way I could possibly think that oh say Jordan, Russell, Wilt, Kareem, Hakeem, Bird, Magic, Oscar, Lebron, Shaq, Duncan all might be above Kobe on the list. Let's say I think Kobe is the 12th greatest player who ever played. That means I must hate him or know nothing against basketball? There's no possible way I or anyone could have a rational, informed basketball opinion that ranks him 12th? HATER!!, right?

I pointed out which item on the list of things I mentioned about Kobe irk me about him--the snitching. Doesn't cloud my judgment on how I view him as a basketball player. Jordan and Kareem are both bigger pieces of shite than Kobe ever has been IMO. They were also better basketball players IMO.