Sports Brag: Scoop Jackson gone

[NozeCandy]

When did this happen? I am so happy right now.


Although the new girl doesn't seem much better. Kobe>MJ? Ok...

[DrewDevil]

Kobe's a better outside shooter and is very close from a talent/basketball skills standpoint. Not so much as a leader of men.

[jah7_fsu1]

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Kobe>MJ? Ok...

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Nope

[kidcolin]

While I think Jemele Hill stinks mostly, she does occasionally pump out a solid article, and she doesn't come off as trying so hard, as does Scoop.

Since when is Scoop gone though? Any articles about it?

[gusmahler]

ESPN's on a Kobe kick lately. On Cold Pizza, two of the guys (Skip and someone else) both agreed that Kobe is a better shooter and scorer than MJ was.

Bill Simmons disagreed:
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Got a ton of feedback about Jemele Hill's "Kobe over MJ" column yesterday. Look, the whole point of a sports column is to take an angle, then argue the hell out of it. That's what she did. I wish more people would do this. Anyway, I didn't agree with the column for two reasons:



A. Kobe's scoring took off only after they changed the hand-checking rules and made it impossible for anyone to play defense. That's why Kobe scored 50-plus points in four straight games, that's why Steve Nash has a chance to win three straight MVPs, and that's why guys routinely score 50-60 points these days. If the 1987-93 MJ played in the current era, he would have obliterated every non-Wilt scoring record there was. That had to be mentioned.



B. MJ played in the most competitive era in the history of the league (1987-93) and emerged with three titles from 1991-93. Jemele argued that Kobe's current competition is tougher than the teams from 1991-93, which is just plain wrong. There's no comparison. The league sucks right now. Back in the early '90s, you had Magic's Lakers, Drexler's Blazers, Riley's Knicks, Isiah's Pistons, Price's Cavs, Hakeem's Rockets, Robinson's Spurs, Malone's Jazz, the TMC trio in Golden State, some underrated Celtics teams (they averaged 52 wins a year during Reggie Lewis' prime), some great Suns teams (including a 62-win team in 1992-93 with Barkley) and a Sonics team that was just taking off with GP and Kemp. It was a top-heavy league back then, unlike now, when 80 percent of the teams are mediocre and there are only four good teams (Dallas, Phoenix, San Antonio and Detroit).



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[MoreWineII]

I'm glad Scoop's gone and I agree with Bill Simmons. Kobe over MJ is a lol.

[TheRover]

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Got a ton of feedback about Jemele Hill's "Kobe over MJ" column yesterday. Look, the whole point of a sports column is to take an angle, then argue the hell out of it.

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...lol?