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thehoopdoctors.com - 12/4/2008

Video: Kobe Gives Ankle Breaking Crossover to Iguodala!

— thehoopdoctors.com — Kobe Bryant is the latest to exact ankle breakin’ punishment on a Philadelphia 76ers defender. Last night... Bryant faked the drive on the athletic super defender Andre Iguodala, then stopped on a dime with a vicious crossover to an open jumper. (more) Video: Kobe Gives Ankle Breaking Crossover to Iguodala!

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sports2debate.com - 12/11/2008

Kobe Bryant's Top Ten Dunks and Moves ******Michael Jordan Dunks Tomorrow******

— sports2debate.com — Kobe Bryant is still amazing, even though LeBron is beginning to surpass him in everything.... (more) Kobe Bryant's Top Ten Dunks and Moves ******Michael ...

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sportingnews.com - 12/4/2008

Shoals Unlimited: Just Squish LeBron, Kobe Together to Find the Next Jordan

— sportingnews.com — Welcome to Shoals Unlimited , where Bethlehem will post a long-form piece on basketball once a week.... The League is in much better shape than it was 10 years ago, but we're still waiting on the Next Jordan. It's part reflex, part messianic ... (more) Shoals Unlimited: Just Squish LeBron, Kobe Together to ...

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LeBron James

Michael Jordan

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Another Kobe Comparison
BallerBlogger.com — I must have missed the Kobe Bryant comparison week memo. Neil Paine of Basketball-Reference.com — inspired by Free Darko’s “Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac” — decided to compare Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan’s % of team possessions used, and offensive and defensive ratings. Check out the comparison here. Paine’s findings aren’t ground-breaking. Jordan was more efficient than Bryant. Paine argues that Jordan was more efficient defensively, and again, he’ll get no argument from me. But ...

The Ol' Kobe Bryant vs. Michael Jordan Debate
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — ... Who's better, Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant? Neil Paine of Basketball-Reference.com navigated numbers like points produced per 100 possessions used, the percentage of team possessions used when on the court, points allowed per 100 opponent possessions, and "the Pythagorean expectation." ...

Lost Time Is Not Found Again: Dec. 9, 2008
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog — ... the fact that MJ operated on a different level than perhaps anyone else in NBA history (as we’ve seen time and again, compare anyone to Jordan and they’ll invariably fall short). I’ve found that the more time passes, the greater the temptation is to focus on current players as “this generation’s (insert Hall of Famer here)”… Fortunately, by looking at the numbers we can separating hype from reality and more impartially judge the merit of such comparisons.” – Neil Paine, Basketball Reference ...

Confirming What We Already Knew?
Intentional Foul — I’m usually one to jump in the “Kobe versus Jordan” argument, even though some things in last year’s Celtics/Lakers tussle essentially settled it. Thanks to a great find at ESPN’s TrueHoop blog, I think the discussion is even more over than it was last summer. A post at the Basketball Reference blog, well, like the title says, confirmed what most already knew or believed: Michael is the superior player, even when it comes to a strictly statistical analysis. There’s a lot of math going on in ...

The Kobe Beef: The Stupid M.J. Debate
Lake Show Life | A Los Angeles Lakers Blog — ... I read a little bit of this piece and then just stopped. No offense to Neil Payne — who obviously knows his hoops and writes well — but outside of the Kobe Hater Club nobody wants to read that kind of stuff any more. It’s been done ad freakin’ naseam That being said… ...