100% of all NBA teams games for the rest of the season are against NBA teams.

Harden?

>mfw he flops

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We all know about it, and we all see it. It's obvious. Nobody ever wants to admit it, but it's there.

People on this subreddit hate Kobe Bryant.

The first question to ask: why? Why do you all hate him? The obvious answer: you didn't watch him in his prime.

Likely explanation: I know that most of you are around 14 or 15 years old. That means you only got into basketball in the last couple years. So you never watched Mamba in his prime.

And because you didn't watch him in his prime, you try to compensate for that by diving into stat sheets and analyzing box scores. But here's the thing: basketball isn't played on Excel spreadsheets. The moment somebody brings up "true shooting percentage" or "win shares" I know they know nothing about basketball.

Kobe's game cannot be encapsulated by one stat. He's the second greatest SG ever, and one of the 5 best players to ever play the game.

So when I hear somebody say that LeBron James is better than Kobe Bryant, I laugh, because I know that anybody who watched Kobe in his prime wouldn't think that. Unlike you guys, I have watched basketball for a significant amount of time, so I know that Kobe is better.

You might be jealous of Kobe's five rings, or jealous of his status as the greatest scorer in NBA history, or whatever. Unless you're a Bulls fan who watched basketball in the 90s, or a Lakers fan who watched basketball in the 2000s, you don't know what real, cold-blooded, killer instinct, will-to-win basketball looks like. And there's nothing wrong with that.

This sub would make you think that Kobe isn't even a top 100 player ever.

So don't go spouting bullshit about players you didn't watch. Talk about your "greats" like LeBron James The Best Player in the World™, but leave the Kobe talk to the adults. Fair?

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nigga

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Hey guys, let me start off by saying SORRY for formatting, I am on mobile and it is my only source of reddit. Anyway, I am a 15 year old depressed kid on the highschool basketball team, it's my first year playing basketball for a team and to make it short, I hate it. I always get picked on by my teammates for being the slowest person on the team, for not being able to make a layup at the height of 6'3, for lack of basketball IQ. I always get called dumb but they say it on the down low and no one knows my secret hate towards them. I only play 2 minutes a game and I do so much running in practice. I plan to quite and try to convince my mom to take me to a private school. Basically, my whole life up until this point has been a shit hole... That was until I discovered the NBA and r/nba, you guys are the by far the BEST community on reddit. Everyday when I would come home from school alone, wishing I had this stupid girl from my school, I would just take a nap and wake up at night (since I'm on the east coast) and watch nba. Probably the most exciting game I've watched was the Raptors/Nets game (or 7) 6 last year. I loved all the funny comments the people on here make to each other. I know to all of you I am a complete strange, but here seemed like family to me... Anyway I felt my friends deserved a goodbye from me before I harm my self, you guys are the best, especially the mods, thanks for making my life joyful while it lasted but the demons inside of me are over taking me and a lot of other personal stuff are happening which sucks but yeah, thanks guys :)

Just to be clear, I don't want anyone to think I'm doing this for attention, I was just giving Credit to you guys for being the only person there for me.

And wow, I know reddit hates this and I currently don't have a lot but 9 upvotes means a lot to me, it means 9 people cared about me, which is the most I've felt in along time, 9 reminds me of rondo! WHAT! Its 30 upvotes now!!! Call me steph curry! But no seriously you guys are amazing, for giving actually caring about me, if actually means a lot and I certainly will remeber you

LAST EDIT I PROMISE

Holy sh't you guys fucking got me on the frontage of r/nba! This is the best thing to ever happen to me which is kinda sad haha, I just want to let everyone know, you guys are the best and made me feel really special today, and I really appreciate the mods letting my keep my post up! You guys rock

ACTUAL LAST EDIT

wow I can't belive you guys got me 150 upvotes (as of now anyway) thank you guys so much! But most importantly, this awesome community got me to think straight about my self and not harm my self. I'm going to sleep now, sorry if I couldn't read your comment, I promise I'll try to respond tomorow. Thank you so much! :)

Wow thank you all so much for the gold and all the comments, I'm sorry if I didn't reply to your messages or comments I have been getting A lot lately, I can't belive I have 700 upvotes and 2 months of gold because of you guys, you feel like a real family to me

Wow omfg 950 upvotes.... That's almost athoushand!!! I never thought this would get past like 20, this is unbelievable, thank you all so much

Mother of god... I'm still Alive, I has 2 months of gold and this post got 1000 upvotes, anything is possible!!

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