Aguiluz12
8.3K posts

Aguiluz12
@TheStatus12
|Envy slays itself by its own arrow| |Texans🤟🏼| Astros⭐️|




I could make a compelling argument that Kobe was never the best player in the league in any season never mind for a decade straight. And nobody at the time thought he was, at least outside LA.

Best player in the nba (2000-2025)

Shane Battier on why Kobe Bryant was the hardest player he ever had to guard: “Because there were guys that were faster and stronger and could, you know, fly and more talented than me, but I thought I was smarter than every player I played against except Kobe. Kobe was the one guy was mentally a guy I couldn’t wear down mentally or break. And so I had played Kobe I don’t know 40 times in my career. And he was a month older than me. His mentality was like unlike anybody I played against, right? If Kobe had 20, he wanted 30. If he had 30, he wanted 40. If he had 40, he wanted 50. If he had 50, he wanted 60. It was non-stop. So I just remember just like, you know, sitting in Marina Delray Ritz going to the Staple Centers. I’m just thinking to myself, “Oh sh*t man. I got this guy tonight. I got this monster. The anxiety was real. It was real. Kobe did a really funny thing with me. Like we played this game with each other that only knew we were playing. And one day he’d be super friendly to me. Hey Shane, what’s going on man? How’s the Family? How you doing? Playing great. Next day, man, stone cold assassin. He wouldn’t even look at me. Wouldn’t even look at me. You know, I fall, he’d step over me. Do all that bullsh*t right? Next game, hey man, what’s going on? So he was always trying to like play this psychological warfare.” (Via @hoopinghollerin)

Sam Mitchell, the coach of the Toronto Raptors when Kobe Bryant dropped 81 points, was in the studio sipping on champagne (Ginger Ale) after Bam Adebayo dropped 83 points. 😭 💀 “I’m not that dumbass that everybody thought I was.” 🤣🤣🤣 ( 🎥: TSN)


Tim MacMahon GOES OFF on Bam 83 point game 😳 “He’s jacking up 3s triple teamed! It was honestly just awful, hideous, disgusting basketball down the stretch… I never ever (x6) want to hear about Heat culture & professionalism and all that crap again because that was the most blatant stat chasing I’ve ever seen! It was embarrassing for the wizards and egregious for the Heat. I enjoyed the ethical 39 by Wemby more than I did the egregious 83.” (Via @BannedMacMahon)

43 FTA: No problem playing the entire 2H in a blowout to stat pad, even when tanking opponent emptied the bench in 4th: No problem Intentionally fouling while you’re up 30 in 4th quarter, to get more possessions & stat pad is shameless & a disgrace to the game #HeatPonziCulture













