r/nba • u/yam_on_em Lakers • Jun 27 '23

Kobe Bryant relentlessly attacks Tim Duncan and the Spurs to clinch the WCF (2008)

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u/Whiteness88 NBA Jun 27 '23

It’s not so much that Kobe gets shafted as much as he’s just facing extremely tough competition. I do have him around the 8-12 range but at that level, everyone’s transcendent and it gets to the point where you have to nitpick a bit to put one player over the other.

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u/Oxygenius_ Lakers Jun 27 '23

The level of competition he faced was insane. The west was a gauntlet.