Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Kobe / Pippen

Say the Lakers win one or two championships with Dwight, Nash, Kobe, and Gasol...and Kobe surpasses Jordan with 7 championships and 2 additional visits to the finals.  (Magic has 5 rings and 4 more visits).  The comparisons to Jordan will continue in more earnest.  But would they be appropriate?  Kobe won 3 with Shaq and then two more with Dwight -- so 5 of his rings would come when he wasn't even the best player on the team.  So wouldn't Pippen be the more interesting comparison?  And what if Pippen had won a ring with Portland that one year when they should have beaten the Lakers?  And why am I even talking about this?

2 comments:

Charles said...

Did you see Bill Simmons writing about comparing this years Olympic basketball team with the Dream Team?

Greg said...

yeah, he seemed to think '92 would crush them. i'm not so sure. guys are in better shape these days and imagine LeBron covering Jordan. I know Jordan is a better competitor, but LeBron is a beast.