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If it wasn't for David Stern (we know why he vetoed the CP3 trade it's because of the Colorado incident) Stern didn't want Kobe to win more rings and he didn't want LA vs Miami for four consecutive years. Imagine Kobe, CP3 and Dwight vs Miami's LeBron, Wade and Bosh
It goes both ways... Stern also made sure that the Sacramento Kings got screwed in the 2002 Western Conference Finals, because he wanted the Lakers in the finals for ratings. How often has the league made sure that Lakers got favorable treatment on the court where it wasn't caught?
I think it was more personally selfish on Sterns part as i believe NO was under league ownership, and Stern had an eye of leaving his spot as comish to become partners in owning NO, and he felt losing Paul was not something he wanted.
@@arizonaFIREent why did he veto the trade of Chris Paul to the Lakers then. Its one thing to say he did everything to HELP the Lakers but then give no EXAMPLES of such help.
Remember it was Dan Gilbert who was still salty over LeBron leaving him that sent an email to David Stern, saying the owners shouldn't allow this to happen. It was already a done deal.
Yeah, it was pretty suspicious how the Cavs won the draft three of the four LeBron Heat years and the Hornets won it the other year. When you think of it, AD was very much a consolation prize for getting screwed out of that trade. And when the Lakers got good again Kobe got far less calls than he used to (in that series against the Suns the SUNS got more favorable calls much of that series, especially the Sasha "flagrant" on Dragic, the softest "flagrant" EVER, which almost resulted in the Suns coming back and tying the series, along with the uncalled foul that resulted in the Artest putback game winner, also the numerous "long twos" from the three point line in game four to start the game). They were clearly trying to make it easier for LeBron to win a ring and for MJ to stay the GOAT (he owned the Bobcats at that time, and he was known to make questionable trades/decisions in order to preserve his legacy, such as letting Tyson Chandler go to Dallas, even if they hurt his team).
I have been a laker fan for a long, long time. But that was easily the most painful los in the playoffs. I experienced it's the only one that actually made me cry. At the time, I was so angry that I actually cheered on by them. As he threw JJ
When Shaq went to Miami they had a no fly zone code for Kobe going into the lane and getting knocked out. JJ kept going into the lane. Bynum literally did what Shaq wanted to do to Kobe when he was in Miami.
@@kristophercrater1901 Is a 'no fly zone' when you are too lazy, untalented or stupid to be in a position to challenge the shot legally and make a play on the ball so you lash out in frustration and claim to be 'sending a message'?
I wouldn't say the greatest era, unless you were born before Michaels (The GOAT that Kobe looked up to) reign, but Kobe is definitely in the top 3 if not best
hell no he wasn’t. in the “kobe era”, outside of 2006, and even that’s debatable, he was NEVER the best player in basketball. shit, for the first 4 years, he wasn’t even the best player on his TEAM (that was shaq). when shaq left, duncan and lebron surpassed him. shit, dirk had a year where he was the best player, besides maybe lebron. i will agree the 2000s were the best era of basketball, but the 90s were tied with it too. kobe definitely was NOT the best player though.
@@ihonestlydontevenknow4359 just tell us you smoke dope and keep it moving. your trippin if you think he wasnt the best player at the time ever. just blind hatred man. Whats the career high kob dropped on your fav team? and did you watch? genuinely curious
I have no doubt cp3 and kobe win a ring together Cp3 + harden = one game away from beating arguably the best team in nba history Cp3 + booker = nba finals Imagine if he had kobe, who's a million times better than both
If Kobe completes that 2nd 3 peat he has a really good case for goat argument but it’s crazy how tons of people leave him out the top 3 or 5 or 10 players ever & that 1 loss would’ve definitively changed everything
@Truthorfib it was clear kobe was the best ....were you blind? Shaq was just bigger than everybody else not better...Kobe avgd 28 and 30 ppg as a "second option". Shaq knew he wasn't better than Kobe neither.
@@KhanDon you sound uneducated in basketball knowledge bucko....Shaq clearly had the better match ups against Rick Smits , Dikembe, and Todd McCullough. FMVP isn't indicative of anything since Jerry west won one in a losing effort......TRY AGAIN
They had no issue with Lebron and Bosh going to Miami to join D Wade, but God forbid Kobe (the best player in the league) get the chance to play with Chris Paul as his PG. That would have automatically been the best guard combo in league history. I think Chris Paul would have fit perfectly with Kobe because Chris was a facilitator as much as he was a scorer, and Kobe also was great at knowing when to take a step back to facilitate. Both guys were also killers on the defensive side of the ball, and would have been perfect defensively to defend the newer era of perimeter guards who were coming up during the 2010's. The league was also going to get smaller and smaller. However the rest of that Lakers roster would have filled out, it would have been a thing of beauty, but the league wanted to turn the page from the Kobe era as soon as possible. That's really what it was. They had this guy they wanted to build up in Lebron James, and they didn't want Kobe in his way taking titles away from their so-called king. The Big 3 partially formed because of Kobe winning back to back championships in 2010, and because they wanted an easier road to the Finals. Kobe was so great that the league itself was trying to stop him from winning more, and one guy can only do so much against such a force of opposition. Phil Jackson's departure due to aging and health complications didn't aid the Lakers fortunes at all either. By the last 2 or 3 years of Kobe's career, he was stuck with a bunch of millenials, and journeymen. Still, Kobe remained loyal to the Lakers, and didn't run away from any challenge. That Colorado case crap took Kobe from the face of the league, to becoming loved, and hated on a whole other level. That's the only reason why Kobe wasn't promoted as the face of the league after that despite being the best player by a mile. Lebron was the so-called chosen one for a reason. The league brass wanted to manufacture a face to try to replace MJ, and Kobe went from being that guy to being in their way. The league, and their media outlets didn't bank on Kobe persevering through such adversity and winning those last 2 championships. That just made the plan into a code red situation where they had to find other ways to shut down the Mamba.
It's no secret that veteran point guard Chris Paul's NBA career would have turned out differently if his trade to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2011 had not been nullified by then-commissioner David Stern. Paul and Kobe Bryant, along with star center Dwight Howard, whom the Lakers did acquire in the summer of 2012, would’ve been an interesting trio. Perhaps they would’ve teamed together to bring the Purple and Gold at least one more Larry O’Brien trophy.
That playoff game against the Dallas Mavericks for Kobe‘s career. I never forgot that game. It broke my heart with Andrew Bynum elbow, JJ Berea in the ribs. My heart shattered because the game was already over. 😢😢
💯 what a great video dude. Being a fan and remembering going through the emotions in that time got me so anxious and just sad. These are the details lebron fan boys don’t know and probably never saw basketball during that time. Had that cp3 trade happen none of the aftermath would had happen and would had easily win 2 more chips. It is what it is and Kobe still had a legendary career with 5 chips.
Lakers due to their market, popularity, media narratives is the most priviliged franchise in the NBA..even when they suck they are in the center of attention..
Lmao the irony of TH-camrs that are promoting gambling sites having their sponsorship video with a # for "if you've a gambling problem" "If you don't, we're paying these TH-camrs to try and make sure you do"
What the nba did to Kobe is the most dirtiest and unethical in history. One of the best talents to ever come to the league and they didn’t wanna see him potentially pass Jordan
The idea that the nba would lockout the league over one team is absurd. The Paul trade veto was wrong and does suggest there was a desire to create parity. This all suggests Kobe was entirely blameless in their failures though which ignores his questionable attitude to his team-mates
I'm a Mavs fan, but the veto'd Chris Paul trade still pisses me off. The NBA robbed us of a prime Kobe playing with Chris Paul. Considering what the league became, with star players picking their team-up spot to create super teams, it's even more annoying that Paul wasn't able to play with Kobe. At this point in time, it wasn't about keeping MJ their "poster child," it was about trying to push Lebron. People today think the media & fans have been overly-critical of LBJ, but for the first 7 years of his career, he could no wrong. Problem was Kobe was still widely considered the best player in the league, but the NBA had already anointed Lebron "the King," yet he still hadn't won an NBA ring.
Chris Paul going to the Clippers had ZERO to do with the meteoric rise in the teams value. It was the departure of Donald Sterling that caused the team to suddenly rise in value as Sterling was intentionally depressing the value so he didn't have to pay his players.
It wasn’t for mj that they tried to put down Kobe, it for lebron. As they wanted to the narrative to be between lebron and mj not know and mj. Kobe’s success was ruining that the validity of that argument.
This isn't the person whose legacy they were trying to protect (or continue to manufacture). If Kobe gets 6, you have two guys you can hold up as competitive legends as the banner carriers of the NBA. How would that cost the NBA anything? Kobe talked about how the "NBA didn't want parity" & that's Chris Paul trade got vetoed. Who had just created a superteam & theoretically ruined parity in the league? Oh that's right, Jason Terry's son Lebron. At the time, Kobe & the Spurs core was aging, no knowledge of what the Warriors would become, & "King James" just had such a massive meltdown that he solidified Dirk's legacy. If LeBron got not 5, not 6, not 7, but zero - that's a disaster for the NBA, mainstream sports media, & Nike who had spent the better part of a decade pumping him up as "Next". The NBA has been intervening on LeBron's behalf since he quit partway through game 6 in Boston in 2010.
It's always an interesting story all this CP vetoed trade and the Lakers falling in 2011 to never come back in that era. I am a big Kobe fan and a Laker since I started watching NBA games in the early 90s (since 2019, I'm not rooting for the Lakers for obvious reasons) and felt like something went behind Stern's reason to deny that trade, but at the same time I don't think the league took the chance from Kobe to legitimate catch up with Mike, because Kobe played in 7 finals (one more than Mike) and lost two of them, so I feel he had the chance but for one reason or another (injuries on Malone and Bynum in each one of them, maybe) he came up short as part of the team.
@@theonlygoodonehere2259That’s revisionist history. The Celtics were up 3-2 and chocked game 6. So before we get to talking about game 7 and officiating. Just remember the Celtics dropped the ball by not winning when they were up.
@@thestrengthreport7517 when pop saw spurs struggling in game 4 of the series of the 2014 wcf vs okc at okc's homefloor, he didn't make a counter, because he needed the team to fail, so that they start hot and fresh and surprise coach scott in game 5, which they did and won by nearly 30, doc rivers may not be the best of coaches, and he is known for not making adjustments, but he used to do the same thing, a team needing to fail in 1 finals eries game to start fresh and hot with surprise the next, that happened in game 6, its a celtics team facing a hungry lakers team, in a time when teams didn't break rules to destroy an opponent in a 5 series game in the finals, its 2 hungry teams going at it, with lakers having a top pf guy with good role player guys, and one of the greatest player guys of all time in history, ofc it will be a long battle, wym, it doesn't erase that game 7 terrible officiating, and doesn't erase that celtics would go back2back if the game was called right
@@MiamiHeat22 and what would pay have without Kobe? 🤣 nothing. He was barely making the playoffs. Go learn your history dude before u comment back. U show how uneducated u are. You part of the 5% of fools who actually think gasol Better 🤣 stop it man
Phil Jackson called the Bad Boy Pistons bad for the NBA BUT ..... those Pistons NEVER did anything as dirty as the cheap shots in the Dallas - Los Angeles 2011 play offs.
Are you kidding me did you watch basketball in that era? That was normal in the playoffs test the lane and it's face to the floor. The Pistons used to terrorize young MJ.
kobe scored 60 in his final game. his final year wasnt ruined. why do fans think their opinions matter. all that matters is people buy sports memorabilia and tickets
I’m taking a shot in the dark here.. I’m going to assume most people that buy sports memorabilia and tickets would = fans and their opinions. Maybe another example would better fit what you’re trying to deliver?
On a team that was long eliminated from playoff contention and finished 17-65. I love Kobe as much as the next guy, he got me into basketball, but let’s not ignore that.
I DO think the league sabatoged Kobe's final years, but NOT to upsell the Clippers. It was more a marketing move to pass the torch and "Face of the League" title to a younger talent- in this case LeBron. The league executives clearly showed they were ready to move on from the Lakers and to the next big marketing plan.
yo, david stern kept trying to make a kd vs lebron matchup over and over again, I remember they were trying to make a replacement of larry bird vs magic johnson rivalry, but injuries and popovich developing the young guys with good role guys following it prevented it as well, and also prevented lebron from being looked at as the next jordan guy preventing a 3 peat
@@AggravatedMan365more of traumatized. When a veteran for example thinks of exploding body parts when he hears a balloon pop no one calls him a weirdo. Same situation here the dude is traumatized seeing kobe’s autopsy.
I still don't understand why Stern vetoed the trade. Has that ever happened before and afterwards? I didn't get to see the rest of the team implode with all those intentional fouls since I live in New York, so seeing them breaking down like that is shocking.
@@Fernando_616Hmmm... I wonder if Stern was still alive if he'd have blocked Durant going to the Suns, even if it didn't turn out how they expected it would.
So they literally did a lockout which kills attendance numbers just so Kobe wouldn't win more than MJ? I mean the CP3 trade is more believable but my understanding was keeping Stern couldn't loose value $ in the team and trading CP3 would have been just that.
Wow this is so Sad 😞 and yes I do believe David Stern did this to boost the hornets and the clippers I’ll never forget that game he tore his Achilles I felt so bad for him ❤️ and then Dwight Howard just wasn’t the right fit for the Lakers 🤦🏾♂️
Seeing Lakers fans pity themselves as if the League hasn’t been in their corner for YEARS is laughable. What happened here was another shady dealing by Stern, but it wasn’t “tO sToP tHe LaKeRs.” No, it was clearly a business deal. A shady one, and unfortunately one that affected Kobe’s remaining prime, but nothing INTENDED to undermine the Lakers. Still, I don’t love it, and I don’t blame Lakers fans for being upset. But the narrative that the League didn’t want to see the Lakers succeed is beyond laughable
Another example of ppl just saying random shit lmao 🤣 Pippin also has 2. So Jordan's not the only one. Bill Russel had 6 threepeats, although that's more than 2.
Most of what you said was valid but that last lebron saved them was so off. I liked your what if videos better, & I'm reminded of why I watch Skap attack more than any other sports talk channel on TH-cam
i think if the trade had pushed thru,,yeah Mamba could have gotten at least 1-2 more wc would have been awesome ,i love KOBE RIP but im an MJ23 guy , and Kobe could have passed the reigns to CP3 for the Lakers . And then they allowed that superteam to get through for Miami wc Stern love for #LeBALCO
@@MaxAndersonnKobe wasn’t even the best player on his team for 3 of those rings and isn’t the best player at his position but sure believe what you want
Did anyone outside Milwaukee watch that championship series? Nope. People still wearing Jordan's and Bulls Jerseys today. Nobody gives a crap about a Bucks active player now. They certainly won't be able to name one in 25 years. Oh and Dunleavey played 15 years. The Bucks didn't end his career.
I don't know if he screws Lakers but he surely screwed my rockets back then I was glad that we didn't get Paul gasol but boy I was wrong Paul was a student of the unlike Dwight Howard. Paul gasol wasn't a lock down defender like Dwight but he worked very hard on that end of the floor a became a champion twice Dwight was just ok doing gym cardios as his skill and did nothing to improve his offensive game his weak link. After all these years David's sterns tyranny his haunt me as we were deprived of the greatness of an already and true hall of famer Pau who would've done everything he could to fill yao's shoes for us ❤
If we are honest, Kobe has 4 titles. The league gave them Lakers that 02/03 win vs the Kings, cause they simply had too many foreign players. The NBA is an entertainment league. Poorly, in our world, that means, some adjusting, for the 'benefit' of the league.
LeBron saved the Lakers my ass.... They still missed the playoffs when he came and found out what that Western conference is like. The team didn't start losing that session until Lonzo got hurt
In the end, nobody won from that stupidity of David Stern. Neither the Clippers or Hornets/Pelicans became champions or even got to the finals. So CP3's time was squandered with the Clippers and has zero rings to this day. Lakers got screwed from all this.
Who else thinks that Jordan's father was killed due to Mike's gambling problem? Any time that scenario has been brought up, it's shot down. What I think, Jordan lost big and refused to pay. Notorious gambler that he is. I'm not sure, but maybe he was told to throw a game and didn't. When he doesn't, his creditors sent the message.
Bro Odom was a known alcoholic and drug menace and the rest of the players offered in the CP3 deal were nobodies. The NBA can’t have small market teams be farm systems for the Lakers like it has always been (view Shaq,Paul Gasol, Dwight Howard, Lebron James) Lakers and other L.A. team don’t develop talent they buy them and Kobe was just mad they didn’t allow it for him
I hated JJ Burea we literally couldn't stop him....but i hated bynum too...they definitely ruined kobe too they never wanted him to pass Mike.... the NBA killed him...
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@@YourboyEJ_loweAmen!
That's they klled kobe😢
If it wasn't for David Stern (we know why he vetoed the CP3 trade it's because of the Colorado incident) Stern didn't want Kobe to win more rings and he didn't want LA vs Miami for four consecutive years. Imagine Kobe, CP3 and Dwight vs Miami's LeBron, Wade and Bosh
It goes both ways... Stern also made sure that the Sacramento Kings got screwed in the 2002 Western Conference Finals, because he wanted the Lakers in the finals for ratings. How often has the league made sure that Lakers got favorable treatment on the court where it wasn't caught?
So the Lakers get mad when the NBA doesn't revolver around them 🤔
I think it was more personally selfish on Sterns part as i believe NO was under league ownership, and Stern had an eye of leaving his spot as comish to become partners in owning NO, and he felt losing Paul was not something he wanted.
Stern did everything in his power to help the Lakers win yall so delusional
@@arizonaFIREent why did he veto the trade of Chris Paul to the Lakers then. Its one thing to say he did everything to HELP the Lakers but then give no EXAMPLES of such help.
An old CP3 helped James Harden to game 7 of the WCF. A prime CP3 AND Kobe at the very least wins at least 1 chip
Remember it was Dan Gilbert who was still salty over LeBron leaving him that sent an email to David Stern, saying the owners shouldn't allow this to happen. It was already a done deal.
Yep. Then he got Lebron, Kyrie and Levin Love
Yeah, it was pretty suspicious how the Cavs won the draft three of the four LeBron Heat years and the Hornets won it the other year. When you think of it, AD was very much a consolation prize for getting screwed out of that trade. And when the Lakers got good again Kobe got far less calls than he used to (in that series against the Suns the SUNS got more favorable calls much of that series, especially the Sasha "flagrant" on Dragic, the softest "flagrant" EVER, which almost resulted in the Suns coming back and tying the series, along with the uncalled foul that resulted in the Artest putback game winner, also the numerous "long twos" from the three point line in game four to start the game). They were clearly trying to make it easier for LeBron to win a ring and for MJ to stay the GOAT (he owned the Bobcats at that time, and he was known to make questionable trades/decisions in order to preserve his legacy, such as letting Tyson Chandler go to Dallas, even if they hurt his team).
I have been a laker fan for a long, long time. But that was easily the most painful los in the playoffs. I experienced it's the only one that actually made me cry. At the time, I was so angry that I actually cheered on by them. As he threw JJ
I was mad too getting swept like that was crazy
When Shaq went to Miami they had a no fly zone code for Kobe going into the lane and getting knocked out. JJ kept going into the lane. Bynum literally did what Shaq wanted to do to Kobe when he was in Miami.
@@kristophercrater1901 Is a 'no fly zone' when you are too lazy, untalented or stupid to be in a position to challenge the shot legally and make a play on the ball so you lash out in frustration and claim to be 'sending a message'?
@@026martin I would ask the Pistons with the Jordan rules first. I think that happened many times to him
@@kristophercrater1901waaaay worse than this, Mike used to get clobbered by the Pistons in the late 80s.
They did him dirty. Best player during the best era of basketball🔥
I wouldn't say the greatest era, unless you were born before Michaels (The GOAT that Kobe looked up to) reign, but Kobe is definitely in the top 3 if not best
The 2010s was sure as hell not Kobe's era lmao
hell no he wasn’t. in the “kobe era”, outside of 2006, and even that’s debatable, he was NEVER the best player in basketball. shit, for the first 4 years, he wasn’t even the best player on his TEAM (that was shaq). when shaq left, duncan and lebron surpassed him. shit, dirk had a year where he was the best player, besides maybe lebron.
i will agree the 2000s were the best era of basketball, but the 90s were tied with it too. kobe definitely was NOT the best player though.
@@ihonestlydontevenknow4359 just tell us you smoke dope and keep it moving. your trippin if you think he wasnt the best player at the time ever. just blind hatred man. Whats the career high kob dropped on your fav team? and did you watch? genuinely curious
Greatest of all time you mean
10:20 73% from 3 is insane
I ALWAYS turn up my volume to hear this IMAGINARY Music that you cue at the end of your videos....😮
That's your best video in a while! I LOVE when you do NBA conspiracy theories! Awesome job Mike
That is lowkey a what if. If I wasn’t for them Kobe vs lebron finals could’ve been one of the most interesting finals
JJ was cooking with that floater
His floater was deadly, that I do remember lol.
I have no doubt cp3 and kobe win a ring together
Cp3 + harden = one game away from beating arguably the best team in nba history
Cp3 + booker = nba finals
Imagine if he had kobe, who's a million times better than both
Ball dominant stars never win with another Ball dominant stars.
warriors, heat, lakers stars have@@1vaultdweller
@@1vaultdwellerThat wouldn’t be the case in that instance but ok sure I guess, but you have to admit if Cp3 and Kobe healthy they would’ve been scary
@@1vaultdweller 2018 rockets would have disproved that, if cp3 never got injured
@@theonlygoodonehere2259 We dont argue about events that didnt happen :D
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If Kobe completes that 2nd 3 peat he has a really good case for goat argument but it’s crazy how tons of people leave him out the top 3 or 5 or 10 players ever & that 1 loss would’ve definitively changed everything
They leave him out cause of Shaq. Unlike with Jordan, it was always clear Jordan was the best player in the team.
@Truthorfib it was clear kobe was the best ....were you blind? Shaq was just bigger than everybody else not better...Kobe avgd 28 and 30 ppg as a "second option". Shaq knew he wasn't better than Kobe neither.
@@Carolinagunsmoke Lol, if Kobe was clearly the best, he would've won 3 FMVPs... Seems like Shaq won all 3 during the threepeat tho 🤷♂️
@@KhanDon you sound uneducated in basketball knowledge bucko....Shaq clearly had the better match ups against Rick Smits , Dikembe, and Todd McCullough. FMVP isn't indicative of anything since Jerry west won one in a losing effort......TRY AGAIN
@@Carolinagunsmoke kobe literally choked away a 2004 finals series...
They had no issue with Lebron and Bosh going to Miami to join D Wade, but God forbid Kobe (the best player in the league) get the chance to play with Chris Paul as his PG. That would have automatically been the best guard combo in league history. I think Chris Paul would have fit perfectly with Kobe because Chris was a facilitator as much as he was a scorer, and Kobe also was great at knowing when to take a step back to facilitate. Both guys were also killers on the defensive side of the ball, and would have been perfect defensively to defend the newer era of perimeter guards who were coming up during the 2010's. The league was also going to get smaller and smaller. However the rest of that Lakers roster would have filled out, it would have been a thing of beauty, but the league wanted to turn the page from the Kobe era as soon as possible. That's really what it was. They had this guy they wanted to build up in Lebron James, and they didn't want Kobe in his way taking titles away from their so-called king. The Big 3 partially formed because of Kobe winning back to back championships in 2010, and because they wanted an easier road to the Finals. Kobe was so great that the league itself was trying to stop him from winning more, and one guy can only do so much against such a force of opposition. Phil Jackson's departure due to aging and health complications didn't aid the Lakers fortunes at all either. By the last 2 or 3 years of Kobe's career, he was stuck with a bunch of millenials, and journeymen. Still, Kobe remained loyal to the Lakers, and didn't run away from any challenge. That Colorado case crap took Kobe from the face of the league, to becoming loved, and hated on a whole other level. That's the only reason why Kobe wasn't promoted as the face of the league after that despite being the best player by a mile. Lebron was the so-called chosen one for a reason. The league brass wanted to manufacture a face to try to replace MJ, and Kobe went from being that guy to being in their way. The league, and their media outlets didn't bank on Kobe persevering through such adversity and winning those last 2 championships. That just made the plan into a code red situation where they had to find other ways to shut down the Mamba.
lebron and bosh signed there, not get traded there
It's no secret that veteran point guard Chris Paul's NBA career would have turned out differently if his trade to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2011 had not been nullified by then-commissioner David Stern.
Paul and Kobe Bryant, along with star center Dwight Howard, whom the Lakers did acquire in the summer of 2012, would’ve been an interesting trio.
Perhaps they would’ve teamed together to bring the Purple and Gold at least one more Larry O’Brien trophy.
He would’ve just got injured and held the team back
CP and Harden didnt work, why would CP work better with Kobe when Kobe is a lot ball dependent
@@1vaultdweller 2018 rockets???
@@theonlygoodonehere2259 Did they make the finals?
@@1vaultdweller injuries is why
That playoff game against the Dallas Mavericks for Kobe‘s career. I never forgot that game. It broke my heart with Andrew Bynum elbow, JJ Berea in the ribs. My heart shattered because the game was already over. 😢😢
Rip Kobe
💯 what a great video dude. Being a fan and remembering going through the emotions in that time got me so anxious and just sad. These are the details lebron fan boys don’t know and probably never saw basketball during that time. Had that cp3 trade happen none of the aftermath would had happen and would had easily win 2 more chips. It is what it is and Kobe still had a legendary career with 5 chips.
Lakers due to their market, popularity, media narratives is the most priviliged franchise in the NBA..even when they suck they are in the center of attention..
This was clear in remember ever detail vividly good video and these are the facts
Laker fans cannot complain. The league took a championship away from the Sacramento Kings when the league wanted the Lakers to win.
It's funny how many lakers fans think the nba is against them.
I’m ngl bro I feel like Stern would’ve done that with any team if the trade didn’t fit his plan
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They did this for lebron.. the NBA has bent over backwards for lebron ever since
Rip david stern, but he definitely took some skeletons with him to the grave
David stern f'ed everything ...
rigged a lot of series and lotteries
@@joyis9638hell yeah and did also he was scared of Jordan I remember he was doing all of the gambling David Stern didn’t give no fucks about it
@@SPCPeeplesSoldier he wasn't scared, he just likes black guys like jordan
@@joyis9638 Adam Silver is the same tbh
Legend there’s only two Mike and Kobe
Goh
They didn’t want Kobe to be that face over MJ (not saying I agree) because he caught that case. Those of us who live through This knows what it was
Mike I’m not letting you slide for linking this to a Giannis highlight
they couldnt let kobe be better than jordan but why?!?!?!
Also ruined the end of Phil Jackson's career. The derision Stern showed toward Phil was something serious.
Bring back the what ifs
What if Chris Paul got traded to the Lakers in 2011?
The NBA destroyed Kobe’s career
I remember that trade and the NBA veto it dn. Now these guys can go anywhere 😕
What the nba did to Kobe is the most dirtiest and unethical in history. One of the best talents to ever come to the league and they didn’t wanna see him potentially pass Jordan
The idea that the nba would lockout the league over one team is absurd. The Paul trade veto was wrong and does suggest there was a desire to create parity. This all suggests Kobe was entirely blameless in their failures though which ignores his questionable attitude to his team-mates
I'm a Mavs fan, but the veto'd Chris Paul trade still pisses me off.
The NBA robbed us of a prime Kobe playing with Chris Paul. Considering what the league became, with star players picking their team-up spot to create super teams, it's even more annoying that Paul wasn't able to play with Kobe.
At this point in time, it wasn't about keeping MJ their "poster child," it was about trying to push Lebron. People today think the media & fans have been overly-critical of LBJ, but for the first 7 years of his career, he could no wrong.
Problem was Kobe was still widely considered the best player in the league, but the NBA had already anointed Lebron "the King," yet he still hadn't won an NBA ring.
Chris Paul going to the Clippers had ZERO to do with the meteoric rise in the teams value. It was the departure of Donald Sterling that caused the team to suddenly rise in value as Sterling was intentionally depressing the value so he didn't have to pay his players.
It wasn’t for mj that they tried to put down Kobe, it for lebron. As they wanted to the narrative to be between lebron and mj not know and mj. Kobe’s success was ruining that the validity of that argument.
i thought you were gunna talk about dahntay jones repeatedly stepping under kobe's feet when he shot throughout their battles against each other.
This isn't the person whose legacy they were trying to protect (or continue to manufacture).
If Kobe gets 6, you have two guys you can hold up as competitive legends as the banner carriers of the NBA. How would that cost the NBA anything?
Kobe talked about how the "NBA didn't want parity" & that's Chris Paul trade got vetoed. Who had just created a superteam & theoretically ruined parity in the league? Oh that's right, Jason Terry's son Lebron.
At the time, Kobe & the Spurs core was aging, no knowledge of what the Warriors would become, & "King James" just had such a massive meltdown that he solidified Dirk's legacy. If LeBron got not 5, not 6, not 7, but zero - that's a disaster for the NBA, mainstream sports media, & Nike who had spent the better part of a decade pumping him up as "Next".
The NBA has been intervening on LeBron's behalf since he quit partway through game 6 in Boston in 2010.
It's always an interesting story all this CP vetoed trade and the Lakers falling in 2011 to never come back in that era. I am a big Kobe fan and a Laker since I started watching NBA games in the early 90s (since 2019, I'm not rooting for the Lakers for obvious reasons) and felt like something went behind Stern's reason to deny that trade, but at the same time I don't think the league took the chance from Kobe to legitimate catch up with Mike, because Kobe played in 7 finals (one more than Mike) and lost two of them, so I feel he had the chance but for one reason or another (injuries on Malone and Bynum in each one of them, maybe) he came up short as part of the team.
if bynum was there, we wre still annihilating lakers, they beat us in 2010 because oerkins was out in game 7 and poor officiating
@@theonlygoodonehere2259That’s revisionist history. The Celtics were up 3-2 and chocked game 6. So before we get to talking about game 7 and officiating. Just remember the Celtics dropped the ball by not winning when they were up.
@@thestrengthreport7517 when pop saw spurs struggling in game 4 of the series of the 2014 wcf vs okc at okc's homefloor, he didn't make a counter, because he needed the team to fail, so that they start hot and fresh and surprise coach scott in game 5, which they did and won by nearly 30, doc rivers may not be the best of coaches, and he is known for not making adjustments, but he used to do the same thing, a team needing to fail in 1 finals eries game to start fresh and hot with surprise the next, that happened in game 6, its a celtics team facing a hungry lakers team, in a time when teams didn't break rules to destroy an opponent in a 5 series game in the finals, its 2 hungry teams going at it, with lakers having a top pf guy with good role player guys, and one of the greatest player guys of all time in history, ofc it will be a long battle, wym, it doesn't erase that game 7 terrible officiating, and doesn't erase that celtics would go back2back if the game was called right
Come on now people let's not forget Mark Cubans involvment the Dallas owner who called David Stern crying around about it as well...
As a laker fan I was hella pissed he did that smh
10:22 but somewhere out there it’s a fool saying pau was just as good as Kg 🤣 yea right
KG has 1 ring. Regular season gets you nothing. If you omit the regular season, Pau is much better than KG
@@MiamiHeat22 and what would pay have without Kobe? 🤣 nothing. He was barely making the playoffs. Go learn your history dude before u comment back. U show how uneducated u are. You part of the 5% of fools who actually think gasol Better 🤣 stop it man
If Kobe wore high tops they would’ve prevented him from that Achilles injury something similar to the Kobe 1s or 2s
Nope Kobe shoes didn't cause Achilles injury don't be silly !!!! Please explain how Kobe low tops cause Achilles injury
@@Thewolf_365 there was a study linked to this by a Sports Med Steven Rowson look that up
@@Thewolf_365 there was study linked to this by Dr. Steve Rowson
@@Thewolf_365 there was a study linked to this look it up it’s by Dr. Steve Rowson
@@Thewolf_365 High-top shoes significantly reduced peak Achilles tendon tension by an average of 9.9% when compared with low-top shoes.
We need a what if Chris Paul was traded to the lakers video
Phil Jackson called the Bad Boy Pistons bad for the NBA BUT ..... those Pistons NEVER did anything as dirty as the cheap shots in the Dallas - Los Angeles 2011 play offs.
Are you kidding me did you watch basketball in that era? That was normal in the playoffs test the lane and it's face to the floor. The Pistons used to terrorize young MJ.
Crazy him and Kobe died same year same month
kobe scored 60 in his final game. his final year wasnt ruined. why do fans think their opinions matter. all that matters is people buy sports memorabilia and tickets
Yeah on 50 shot attempts 😂
I’m taking a shot in the dark here.. I’m going to assume most people that buy sports memorabilia and tickets would = fans and their opinions. Maybe another example would better fit what you’re trying to deliver?
His final year was ruined.
@@androSS. he’s not trying to deliver anything but hate
On a team that was long eliminated from playoff contention and finished 17-65. I love Kobe as much as the next guy, he got me into basketball, but let’s not ignore that.
He should’ve won multiple mvps that the league gave to nash and nowitszki. That is blatant evidence against the league right there
I DO think the league sabatoged Kobe's final years, but NOT to upsell the Clippers. It was more a marketing move to pass the torch and "Face of the League" title to a younger talent- in this case LeBron. The league executives clearly showed they were ready to move on from the Lakers and to the next big marketing plan.
yo, david stern kept trying to make a kd vs lebron matchup over and over again, I remember they were trying to make a replacement of larry bird vs magic johnson rivalry, but injuries and popovich developing the young guys with good role guys following it prevented it as well, and also prevented lebron from being looked at as the next jordan guy preventing a 3 peat
I can't see Kobe's tattoos and not think of the autopsy diagram photos
Weirdo
@@AggravatedMan365more of traumatized. When a veteran for example thinks of exploding body parts when he hears a balloon pop no one calls him a weirdo. Same situation here the dude is traumatized seeing kobe’s autopsy.
Only a fking wierdo would seek that out. I never seen that ish and I'm not gonna search for it.
Dirtiest play in NBA history? That play would've been a personal foul in the 50s,60s,and 70s.
The name of former Laker Gasol is Pau, not Paul
I still don't understand why Stern vetoed the trade. Has that ever happened before and afterwards? I didn't get to see the rest of the team implode with all those intentional fouls since I live in New York, so seeing them breaking down like that is shocking.
To me, as a mavs fan at the time, I thought it was bs that a team operated by the league was handing cp3 to the Lakers to give them more championships
The league owned the team and unofficially cited "competitive balance." They were totally ok with him going to the then lowly Clippers
@@Fernando_616Hmmm... I wonder if Stern was still alive if he'd have blocked Durant going to the Suns, even if it didn't turn out how they expected it would.
@@MitchMitchellStories no, he tried to help kd get to the finals during his time as commissioner
Do not gamble. Gambling is bad.
i mean the league helped the lakers so much in the early 2000s ...so it balances out
Dirtiest play? This guy never heard of Kermit Washington or saw any of Draymond green or Ron Artest’s career. Or Laimbeer or Rick Mahorn I guess…
The game was over, and the series. Hard to argue a straight up dirty play. He wasn’t even trying to hide it.
I whole heatedly believe CP3 going to the Clippers was better for him than the Lakers
Why you say that ?
No franchise has a bigger victim mentality than the franchise David Stern wanted two of smh
"My ideal finals is the Lakers versus the Lakers"
I would go even further and say if he never got that injury he would never have retired early and he never would have gotten in that helicopter😭
So they literally did a lockout which kills attendance numbers just so Kobe wouldn't win more than MJ? I mean the CP3 trade is more believable but my understanding was keeping Stern couldn't loose value $ in the team and trading CP3 would have been just that.
11:20 😂
Hey your next video should be about “ why is everyone hating on the 80’s and 90’s ball “ cause boy the internet have been at Michael Jordan’s neck 😂😭
the W in Nowitzki is pronounced like a V
Wow this is so Sad 😞 and yes I do believe David Stern did this to boost the hornets and the clippers I’ll never forget that game he tore his Achilles I felt so bad for him ❤️ and then Dwight Howard just wasn’t the right fit for the Lakers 🤦🏾♂️
"When LeBron James finally saved them"
What? First season he was in LA they missed the playoffs lol
Dirtiest play in NBA?? Not even close
They did bro dirty man
Bynum was making a comeback in 2019.
Seeing Lakers fans pity themselves as if the League hasn’t been in their corner for YEARS is laughable. What happened here was another shady dealing by Stern, but it wasn’t “tO sToP tHe LaKeRs.”
No, it was clearly a business deal. A shady one, and unfortunately one that affected Kobe’s remaining prime, but nothing INTENDED to undermine the Lakers. Still, I don’t love it, and I don’t blame Lakers fans for being upset. But the narrative that the League didn’t want to see the Lakers succeed is beyond laughable
kobe is already one of the few with a 3 peat on their resume jordan is the only one with 2 do the math
Another example of ppl just saying random shit lmao 🤣
Pippin also has 2. So Jordan's not the only one.
Bill Russel had 6 threepeats, although that's more than 2.
You mean Shaq's side kick. Kobe had 0 fmvps during the 3 peat😂
@@bradenkalke2500 6??????
Man this reminds me of how close we were to seeing a Kobe vs Bron finals. So close.
What we got was better. Dirks redemption against the Wade and the big 3.
@@AndrewL31413 2012 finals not 2011, pay attention
So Kobe was unable to understand his body and listen to others... Totally everyone not named Kobe Bryant fault.
Bynum foul was horrible, deservedly flagrant 2, but Odom on Dirk earlier might be the softest flagrant 2 ever
Most of what you said was valid but that last lebron saved them was so off. I liked your what if videos better, & I'm reminded of why I watch Skap attack more than any other sports talk channel on TH-cam
& if they get cp3 they still had the assets to pull off the Dwight trade
i think if the trade had pushed thru,,yeah Mamba could have gotten at least 1-2 more wc would have been awesome ,i love KOBE RIP but im an MJ23 guy , and Kobe could have passed the reigns to CP3 for the Lakers . And then they allowed that superteam to get through for Miami wc Stern love for #LeBALCO
Kobe is the goat idc what anyone says 🐐
Thanks for the joke! I needed a laugh 🤣 🤣 🤣
@@rektz2457 Kobe 5 rings Lebron 4 and Bron needed to join super teams just to win his chip
@@MaxAndersonnKobe wasn’t even the best player on his team for 3 of those rings and isn’t the best player at his position but sure believe what you want
@@MaxAndersonn I don't remember lebron having a top ten player of all time as a teammate to carry him to 3 championships.
@@jadenfoster7729 he did win 2 ring without Shaq and Lebron needed Wade and Bosh to win his first 2
Did anyone outside Milwaukee watch that championship series? Nope. People still wearing Jordan's and Bulls Jerseys today. Nobody gives a crap about a Bucks active player now. They certainly won't be able to name one in 25 years.
Oh and Dunleavey played 15 years. The Bucks didn't end his career.
I don't know if he screws Lakers but he surely screwed my rockets back then I was glad that we didn't get Paul gasol but boy I was wrong Paul was a student of the unlike Dwight Howard. Paul gasol wasn't a lock down defender like Dwight but he worked very hard on that end of the floor a became a champion twice Dwight was just ok doing gym cardios as his skill and did nothing to improve his offensive game his weak link. After all these years David's sterns tyranny his haunt me as we were deprived of the greatness of an already and true hall of famer Pau who would've done everything he could to fill yao's shoes for us ❤
If we are honest, Kobe has 4 titles. The league gave them Lakers that 02/03 win vs the Kings, cause they simply had too many foreign players. The NBA is an entertainment league. Poorly, in our world, that means, some adjusting, for the 'benefit' of the league.
Yet the spurs, with many foreign players, seemed to win or make the finals every other year 🤔
LeBron saved the Lakers my ass.... They still missed the playoffs when he came and found out what that Western conference is like. The team didn't start losing that session until Lonzo got hurt
David Stern caused Kobebryant for the injury
David Stern really fucked everything bro
And dont forget MIKE wanted his HORNETS back whatever MJ wants he gets....he brought the MONEY the game
That lakers squad was full of these kinda guys. Ron, lamar, Andrew, etc
Now imagine if Draymond Green, Grayson Allen, and Beverly in the same team today 😂
KOBE💍💍💍💍💍
Yeah Kobe complaining against NBA after the NBA favored the Lakers over the Kings in 2002. Totally legit.
Yeah the Kings should've won that one. Webber still pissed about that.....
In the end, nobody won from that stupidity of David Stern. Neither the Clippers or Hornets/Pelicans became champions or even got to the finals. So CP3's time was squandered with the Clippers and has zero rings to this day. Lakers got screwed from all this.
AD won
Si it was 2011 to 2012 the lockout
*Lebron didn't Save the Lakers it's Davis
Who else thinks that Jordan's father was killed due to Mike's gambling problem? Any time that scenario has been brought up, it's shot down.
What I think, Jordan lost big and refused to pay. Notorious gambler that he is.
I'm not sure, but maybe he was told to throw a game and didn't. When he doesn't, his creditors sent the message.
Dirk would have us in playoffs
Good ol conspiracies.
Bro Odom was a known alcoholic and drug menace and the rest of the players offered in the CP3 deal were nobodies. The NBA can’t have small market teams be farm systems for the Lakers like it has always been (view Shaq,Paul Gasol, Dwight Howard, Lebron James) Lakers and other L.A. team don’t develop talent they buy them and Kobe was just mad they didn’t allow it for him
I hated JJ Burea we literally couldn't stop him....but i hated bynum too...they definitely ruined kobe too they never wanted him to pass Mike.... the NBA killed him...