<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">25. LA Lakers Next time you watch "Scarface," look for the disturbing parallels between Tony Montana's career and Kobe's career. It's borderline startling -- the meteoric rise of two superstars, followed by embarrassing trials, a healthy dose of egomania and paranoia, soul-selling turns for the worse (Manny's shocking death and the shocking Shaq trade), and the crazy symmetry of Tony's taking on an entire army of Sosa's soldiers by himself and Mamba's taking 40-45 shots a game for the 2005-06 Lakers with the worst supporting cast in the league. Is it too late to build a giant water fountain at the Staples Center for Kobe to fall into headfirst? (Mitigating Factor: For five months, I've been racking my brain trying to figure out why Phil Jackson would take this job for any reason other than "He's whipped by his girlfriend" or "Maybe this is the NBA coaching equivalent of Dennis Miller's pocketing $5 million for 'Bordello of Blood.'" But what if he's secretly sitting on a giant book contract about this season, and he's been secretly taking copious notes the entire time? So he makes $10 million from the Lakers and another $5 million from the best-selling book, tentatively titled, "Mamba and Me: My Season Coaching a Guy Who Nicknamed Himself After A Deadly Python." And then he's out the door on July 1 and living in Malibu in a much bigger house, along with his butler, Charley Rosen. I think this could have some legs.)</div> Source I love the comparison, and like I said in a past post, I wish Kobe embraced the role as the "bad guy." Here are some of the quotables for the character, Tony Montana aka Scarface... Who put this thing together? Me, that's who! Who do I trust? Me, that's who! I'm Tony Montana. You f--- with me, you f---n' with the best. What are you lookin' at? You're all a bunch of f--n' a--holes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your f---n' fingers, and say "that's the bad guy." So, what'll that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth... even when I lie. So say goodnight to the bad guy. Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. The rest of the comments on some of the teams are pretty hilarious.
Bring in Rodman as a "mentor", and also let him play... He could surely teach Kobe a thing or two (although last time they played they never spoke to each other)
I kinda wish hed embrase the bad boy role. BUt he wants to be a goodie goodie like mike. He walks talks and plays like mike even chews his gum like him. I think Kobe wouldve been a better player if he wouldve just been himselfe from the begining.
