I just laugh at people that say LeBron James is a better player than Kobe Bryant. That’s even right now with James in his prime and Bryant past his prime years.
Just compare the two real quick Bryant’s got the rings (five to zero), intensity and leadership. Bryant is also is clutch as they come; I don’t know how many game winning shots he has hit. James often comes up small in the biggest moments. See the 4th quarter in last year’s NBA finals. Bryant is ten times the shooter that James is.
Mike Brown is his first year of head coach of the Los Angeles is getting to see for himself what Bryant is all about. Brown also was the coach of the Cleveland Cavs when James was there.
So no better person to compare the two than Brown. Brown talked Bryant,James, and Dwyane Wade with CBS Sports.com Ken Berger.
“I think it starts when you look at championship rings,” Brown said. “The guys who have multiple rings are the ones you mention when you start talking about people’s legacies. They should be mentioned first, because there are a lot of great players out there that I believe can put up great numbers and do great things, especially on a team where you don’t win. It’s a different type of pressure that you go through. To have five of them, and to have the possibility of getting more — six or seven or eight — it’s like, ‘Whoa.’ And that right there by itself is what puts you in a different category.
“If we’re just talking about talent, or pure talent alone, yeah, there are other guys out there that have a high talent level,” Brown said. “Are they to the level of Kobe’s? In different aspects of the game. If you’re talking about who’s the most talented passer, LeBron or Kobe, well, LeBron is. Who’s the more talented midrange scorer? Kobe is. Who’s the better attacker? Dwyane Wade is. So they all do different things, I think, better than each other. But at the end of the day, when it comes to combining talent and skill with the most important thing, which is winning, I don’t know how you don’t give [Kobe] the edge.”
Most of us already knew this and Brown just confirmed it. Bryant has that extra drive that’s the reason he has 5 rings. If James took things a little more serious would he have a ring? Who knows maybe. I know this if he wants to get a ring and be a leader he has to take things a little more serious. James should probably ask Bryant or Wade for some advice. Wade already has a ring without James.
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