This is interesting… when looking at
Kobe Bryant🐍 vs. LeBron James🥉
Career Stat Averages
[in games started/real games… obviously]
• Regular Season
• Playoffs against Western Conference Opponents (since the East was awful during much of their careers)
Total
Kobe: 14✅’s
LeBron: 12✅’s
2001: 28.5 PPG 🏀 All Def 1st team
2002: 25.2 PPG 🏀 All Def 2nd team
2003: 30.0 PPG 🏀 All Def 2nd team
2004: 24.0 PPG 🏀 All Def 1st team
2005: 27.6 PPG 🏀 All Def 1st team
2006: 35.4 PPG 🏀 All Def 1st team
2007: 31.6 PPG 🏀 All Def 1st team
2008: 28.3 PPG 🏀 All Def 1st team
2009: 26.8 PPG 🏀 All Def 1st team
2010: 27.0 PPG 🏀 All Def 1st team
2011: 25.3 PPG
2012: 27.9 PPG 🏀 All Def 1st team
2013: 27.3 PPG 🏀 All Def 2nd team
So LeBron is a better scorer than Kobe because he has more 40pt Finals games?
LeBron record when scoring 40 points in the Finals is 3-5. Most of those against the small ball Warriors. Yet somehow LeBron scoring a lot despite being dominated by the Warriors has increased his legacy.
LeBron’s highest scoring Finals run (34PPG) in 2018 resulted in a sweeping 0-4 against Warriors who was just letting him score and pad his stats while losing and it’s celebrated as the feather in his cap to his career. His fans make his career a legacy of LOSING and I hate that for him.
Lebron has 1 championship run where he averaged over 30PPG in 2012. Shows you all that scoring he did when getting blown out or losing was extremely overrated. LeBron scoring a lot was never a winning formula. And he never put up the numbers Kobe did while winning chips. LeBron is not a better playoff scorer than Kobe. He played against way lesser competition in the East and just ran up stats while losing to the Warriors 🤷🏾♂️
Scoring all them points while losing big in the Finals won’t put you above Kobe. I’m sorry.
He averaged 33 PPG - 10 APG over the first 5/6 games in this series.
He wanted to show the world he could do what Nash did and he kept up his hyper aggressive scoring doing so.
His apg averages went down because in Game 6 he chose to score 37 PTS and only had 2 assists.
Kobe when he was going to 3 straight trips only lost to the 2008 Superteam Celtics. But we supposed to believe Jokic is gonna beat Kobe. Tatum? Lol. Oh wait, maybe SGA, a slower and less dynamic Kobe.
Y’all are really crazy. When I tell yall Kobe the most underrated player of all time y’all gotta hear me because the Kobe takes be the worst in sports. Thank for this @LakeShowJerry