Published 3/9/2008
by Ralph isaac
at Bleacher Report - NBA
Few can disagree with me that Kobe Bryant was supposed to win 4 MVP trophies already. But those Pundits decided that he didn't deserve them. Lets go back to 2002-2003 when Shaquille O'neal conviniently decided to have toe surgery right before the season started. The Lakers started the season with a few games under .500. Kobe must have felt that he had to dominate or else the lakers would risk missing the playoffs. He did just that, he flat out dominated the opposition, he was scoring 40 point games as often Kwame Brown goes DNP in Memphis(now). He went on that ridiculous streak in January where he scored 9 straight 40 point games, a feat only done by Michael Jeffrey Jordan and Wilt chamberlain. The lakers won 8 out of those 9 games. With Shaq getting back to form by then, the Lakers finished the season 18 games overe .500. Yet kobe got no respect from the writers who didn't even bother considering what he had done. Now fast foward to 2005-2006 when the lakers front office decided to ...
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