i hope kobe wins the championship without shaq and earns his rightful spot as the closet thing we might ever have to jordan. nevertheless, the thing that irks me about kobe is that he's so fake- the finals forced scowl; him always posing for the convenient photo-ops with his wife and kids in spite of his much publicized infidelity; the feigned leadership in spite of him ripping parts of the roster as not up to his standard
I actually like Scoop as far as his writing goes. His articles are original to me. He always takes a different angle when he writes. He wrote an article several years ago in SLAM Magazine about Kobe that was awesome. Im gonna see if I can find it.