Metta World Peace excludes Kobe Bryant from GOAT conversation (2024)

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February 28, 2024-by HoopsHype

By HoopsHype | February 28, 2024

According to him, Kobe Bryant is disqualified from the GOAT conversation because he wanted to win his 6th championship badly and forced games instead of allowing wins to come naturally. Discussing the ongoing debate, Metta offered insights into LeBron James’s potential to claim the GOAT title once his career concludes, acknowledging James’s exceptional versatility and accomplishments. “I think when LeBron’s career over, I think when you crunch all the numbers, it’s going to read LeBron number one,” he continued. “He did what he had to do and Wilt Chamberlain had numbers, he played 13 seasons. Mike got six [championships]. Mike did what he had to do. Bron did what he had to do.”
Source: TalkBasket

What’s the buzz on Twitter?

Kevin Chouinard @KLChouinard
Kobe Bufkin can really turn a corner with haste in pick and roll.
Did it there and missed but Bruno dunked the putback because Kobe sucked in the defense. – 9:44 PM

Kevin Chouinard @KLChouinard
This lead is affording the Hawks with the luxury of getting Kobe extra reps. – 9:30 PM

Lauren L. Williams @WilliamsLaurenL
7:46 left to play, Hawks go up 104-78 and they have been feeding off the energy of Kobe Bufkin. Before that, it was Jalen Johnson. A really nice showing from the Hawks young guys tonight. – 9:27 PM

Lauren L. Williams @WilliamsLaurenL
The Grand Rapids just popped out of Kobe Bufkin. Flung Jordan Clarkson while also forcing the jumpball – 9:24 PM

Law Murray @LawMurrayTheNU
Expanded roster for practice today.
Kobe Brown, Joshua Primo, Moussa Diabaté, Jordan Miller, Xavier Moon all here with the vets. Those five players were not on the OKC-MEM road trip. pic.twitter.com/e25nz3CsGC – 2:08 PM

More on this storyline

Lance Stephenson: Man, this is hard. A lot of people get mad. My Top 5, I’m just going to do position-wise… no I’m not. SoKobe [Bryant],[Michael] Jordan, no order,LeBron [James],Tim Duncan,Shaq[uille O’Neal]. That’s my starting five right there. I know there gonna be a lot of argument of who gonna shoot the ball, but I think they’ll figure it out and actually beat everybody that everyone else picks. -via HoopsHype / February 25, 2024

To his recollection, Bryant was persistent and made sure that Devean George re-signed with the purple and gold after his deal expired in 2002. “My contract was up after my third year. He was there fighting for my contract. He called me every day [telling me], ‘Did they get the numbers right?’ [I said] ‘Nope, not yet.’ [Kobe replied] ‘Okay, I’ll be in there tomorrow working out,'”the 2-time MIAC Player of the Year said on “Forgotten Seasons.” -via Basketball Network / February 24, 2024

Somewhere over the Grand Canyon, the Spurs’ coach finally fired up the iPad and began the promised video tutorial, a film study featuring the greatest hits of some of the league’s all-time greats. There was Michael Jordan and his rocker step. There was Tim Duncan and his drop step. There was Kobe Bryant stubbornly maneuvering space to get off a fadeaway jumper, Hakeem Olajuwon dream shaking, Kevin McHale post-moving opponents into oblivion. To the 20-year-old Wembanyama, all of this might as well have been black-and-white footage of the moon landing. “It’s not tape I’ve had a chance to watch,” he said, “because it’s not from my generation.” -via San Antonio Express-News / February 23, 2024

Scott Agness: NBA All-Star Celebrity Game roster includes Metta World Peace, CJ Stroud, Micah Parsons and Conor Daly. and Peyton Manning coaching back at Lucas Oil Stadium. pic.twitter.com/ROnPQvTKkb -via Twitter @ScottAgness / February 7, 2024

There is so much in store for Victor Wembanyama as he develops that it will be exciting to witness but is a 100-plus point game in his future? Former NBA player Metta World Peace believes that will happen for the Spurs rookie. “I do believe he will score 100 points at some point in his career,” Peace said on Los Angeles Spectrum SportsNet Live. “I think he will be the first one. Maybe 101 (points). I think he will get there maybe in about his eighth season.” -via Kens5.com / December 14, 2023

Peace added that Wemby will fill out his body, and can see in him facing a lowly NBA team and will just score at will. “He’ll play against one of these old-school Clippers-type teams. Not the 2024 Clippers but you know the 1999 Clippers-type teams. Maybe there’s a team down there and he just goes in the red. 101 points,” he said. -via Kens5.com / December 14, 2023

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