Kobe Bryant is at his sarcastic, snarky best when he is talking about the 2005-2007 Lakers.
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Arash Markazi
Kobe Bryant: "I almost won an MVP with Smush Parker and Kwame Brown on my team."
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Arash Markazi
Kobe Bryant: "Smush Parker was the worst. He shouldn't have been in the NBA but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard."
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Arash Markazi
Kobe Bryant: "I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm and Kwame Brown?"
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Arash Markazi
Tweet of the Night went to Arash Markazi of ESPN, who quoted Kobe Bryant’s thoughts on some of his previous teammates. So apparently, Bryant is not a fan of Smush Parker, Chris Mihm and Kwame Brown, but this isn’t exactly a surprise. Bryant has often spoken frankly about the lack of talent that surrounded him prior to the arrival of Pau Gasol in Los Angeles. Here’s what he previously had to say about the play of Brown, and it’s not pretty:
As for the comment about Smush Parker, perhaps Bryant still has this clip fresh in his memory:
Or maybe Parker was just really that bad.
Tracy McGrady’s Tweet of the Night
The problem was never Kobe taking too many off-balance, double-teamed shots when he had that supporting cast. It’s that he never stopped when he got better teammates – like Pau, Bynum, Odom, etc. He shot 43% last year with the best frontcourt in the league. Hard to blame that on Smush and Chris Mihm.