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FinnyJangles• 1 d ago
You can’t compare eras because Kobe played in the dead ball age and points were harder to come by then. Dumb comparison
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14DonK24• 1 d ago
Kobe had less fouls on him because when he played the NBA was less soft and didn’t baby the players28
52Spartacus32• 1 d ago
All of y’all SGA haters are idiotic. Y’all obviously haven’t watched basketball Kobe Bryant averaged 10 free-throw attempts throughout his 2004 2005 2006 and 2007 seasons. SGA only averaged 8.8 during the 2025 season check your facts you morons.21
117EmekaEgbuka1• 1 d ago
You can't compare this at all. Kobe was a kid coming out of high school who worked on improving every day he played. This is such and unfair comparison considering he also played in a much rougher era of basketball.2186we3kends0nlyy• 1 d ago
kobe played when mfrs actually played defense142jelly292• 1 d ago
if you blame Shai for taking a bunch of FTs, you also have to blame Kobe for rigging the WCF. you can't say "but that was the ref" for one and not the other75Klatch• 1 d ago
What's been wild to watch for me; we get Linsanity a few years back, his cherry-picked stats for the first starts of a career are unprecedented. We love it as NBA fans. We celebrate it.
SGA has one of the most prolific scoring stretches in NBA history and every step of the way, people dismiss it and criticize it. Any facts you can use to refute SGA's season can be turned against Kobe. They both got to the stripe plenty.
This graphic is not stating SGA is a better all-time player than Kobe. That's idiotic. But their numbers, as seen above, are comparable. And even skew towards the player who is playing in a more wide-open game, go figure. Kobe played in an era that was slightly slower, with less behind the arc shooting. Kobe's era was already called 'soft' by the cats that grew up watching the Bad Boys Pistons and the 80s Lakers-Celtics tilts.
Be mad. Or, idk, maybe take the conversation with context and nuance?
82jelly292• 1 d ago
lol Kobe would tell players to read the ref handbook so they could understand ref angles, and exploit them. so... maybe these two are a lot more in common than you want to admit62L4B• 1 d ago
I don’t care what yall say Shai is the next Kobe , all you gym teachers can go back to the 90s3
11Jahlal• 1 d ago
Shai better straight up1
