He Played Dirty and *Ruined* The End of Kobe’s Career 

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If it wasn't for David Stern (we know why he vetoed the CP3 trade it's because of the Colorado incident) Stern didn't want Kobe to win more rings and he didn't want LA vs Miami for four consecutive years. Imagine Kobe, CP3 and Dwight vs Miami's LeBron, Wade and Bosh

Remember it was Dan Gilbert who was still salty over LeBron leaving him that sent an email to David Stern, saying the owners shouldn't allow this to happen. It was already a done deal.

I have been a laker fan for a long, long time. But that was easily the most painful los in the playoffs. I experienced it's the only one that actually made me cry. At the time, I was so angry that I actually cheered on by them. As he threw JJ

They did him dirty. Best player during the best era of basketball🔥

An old CP3 helped James Harden to game 7 of the WCF. A prime CP3 AND Kobe at the very least wins at least 1 chip

Always good when Mike drop a video

10:20 73% from 3 is insane

JJ was cooking with that floater

That's your best video in a while! I LOVE when you do NBA conspiracy theories! Awesome job Mike

4 min long intro (ad) followed by a RU-vid ad is crazy bro

I have no doubt cp3 and kobe win a ring together Cp3 + harden = one game away from beating arguably the best team in nba history Cp3 + booker = nba finals Imagine if he had kobe, who's a million times better than both

It's no secret that veteran point guard Chris Paul's NBA career would have turned out differently if his trade to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2011 had not been nullified by then-commissioner David Stern. Paul and Kobe Bryant, along with star center Dwight Howard, whom the Lakers did acquire in the summer of 2012, would’ve been an interesting trio. Perhaps they would’ve teamed together to bring the Purple and Gold at least one more Larry O’Brien trophy.

If Kobe completes that 2nd 3 peat he has a really good case for goat argument but it’s crazy how tons of people leave him out the top 3 or 5 or 10 players ever & that 1 loss would’ve definitively changed everything

That playoff game against the Dallas Mavericks for Kobe‘s career. I never forgot that game. It broke my heart with Andrew Bynum elbow, JJ Berea in the ribs. My heart shattered because the game was already over. 😢😢

💯 what a great video dude. Being a fan and remembering going through the emotions in that time got me so anxious and just sad. These are the details lebron fan boys don’t know and probably never saw basketball during that time. Had that cp3 trade happen none of the aftermath would had happen and would had easily win 2 more chips. It is what it is and Kobe still had a legendary career with 5 chips.

Rip Kobe

Legend there’s only two Mike and Kobe

They had no issue with Lebron and Bosh going to Miami to join D Wade, but God forbid Kobe (the best player in the league) get the chance to play with Chris Paul as his PG. That would have automatically been the best guard combo in league history. I think Chris Paul would have fit perfectly with Kobe because Chris was a facilitator as much as he was a scorer, and Kobe also was great at knowing when to take a step back to facilitate. Both guys were also killers on the defensive side of the ball, and would have been perfect defensively to defend the newer era of perimeter guards who were coming up during the 2010's. The league was also going to get smaller and smaller. However the rest of that Lakers roster would have filled out, it would have been a thing of beauty, but the league wanted to turn the page from the Kobe era as soon as possible. That's really what it was. They had this guy they wanted to build up in Lebron James, and they didn't want Kobe in his way taking titles away from their so-called king. The Big 3 partially formed because of Kobe winning back to back championships in 2010, and because they wanted an easier road to the Finals. Kobe was so great that the league itself was trying to stop him from winning more, and one guy can only do so much against such a force of opposition. Phil Jackson's departure due to aging and health complications didn't aid the Lakers fortunes at all either. By the last 2 or 3 years of Kobe's career, he was stuck with a bunch of millenials, and journeymen. Still, Kobe remained loyal to the Lakers, and didn't run away from any challenge. That Colorado case crap took Kobe from the face of the league, to becoming loved, and hated on a whole other level. That's the only reason why Kobe wasn't promoted as the face of the league after that despite being the best player by a mile. Lebron was the so-called chosen one for a reason. The league brass wanted to manufacture a face to try to replace MJ, and Kobe went from being that guy to being in their way. The league, and their media outlets didn't bank on Kobe persevering through such adversity and winning those last 2 championships. That just made the plan into a code red situation where they had to find other ways to shut down the Mamba.

Lmao the irony of RU-vidrs that are promoting gambling sites having their sponsorship video with a # for "if you've a gambling problem" "If you don't, we're paying these RU-vidrs to try and make sure you do"

David stern f'ed everything ...

I remember that trade and the NBA veto it dn. Now these guys can go anywhere 😕

It's funny how many lakers fans think the nba is against them.

Rip david stern, but he definitely took some skeletons with him to the grave

They did this for lebron.. the NBA has bent over backwards for lebron ever since

Also ruined the end of Phil Jackson's career. The derision Stern showed toward Phil was something serious.

They didn’t want Kobe to be that face over MJ (not saying I agree) because he caught that case. Those of us who live through This knows what it was

they couldnt let kobe be better than jordan but why?!?!?!

The NBA destroyed Kobe’s career

Chris Paul going to the Clippers had ZERO to do with the meteoric rise in the teams value. It was the departure of Donald Sterling that caused the team to suddenly rise in value as Sterling was intentionally depressing the value so he didn't have to pay his players.

It's always an interesting story all this CP vetoed trade and the Lakers falling in 2011 to never come back in that era. I am a big Kobe fan and a Laker since I started watching NBA games in the early 90s (since 2019, I'm not rooting for the Lakers for obvious reasons) and felt like something went behind Stern's reason to deny that trade, but at the same time I don't think the league took the chance from Kobe to legitimate catch up with Mike, because Kobe played in 7 finals (one more than Mike) and lost two of them, so I feel he had the chance but for one reason or another (injuries on Malone and Bynum in each one of them, maybe) he came up short as part of the team.

11:20 😂

As a laker fan I was hella pissed he did that smh

Laker fans cannot complain. The league took a championship away from the Sacramento Kings when the league wanted the Lakers to win.

i thought you were gunna talk about dahntay jones repeatedly stepping under kobe's feet when he shot throughout their battles against each other.

We need a what if Chris Paul was traded to the lakers video

& if they get cp3 they still had the assets to pull off the Dwight trade

Hey your next video should be about “ why is everyone hating on the 80’s and 90’s ball “ cause boy the internet have been at Michael Jordan’s neck 😂😭

This isn't the person whose legacy they were trying to protect (or continue to manufacture). If Kobe gets 6, you have two guys you can hold up as competitive legends as the banner carriers of the NBA. How would that cost the NBA anything? Kobe talked about how the "NBA didn't want parity" & that's Chris Paul trade got vetoed. Who had just created a superteam & theoretically ruined parity in the league? Oh that's right, Jason Terry's son Lebron. At the time, Kobe & the Spurs core was aging, no knowledge of what the Warriors would become, & "King James" just had such a massive meltdown that he solidified Dirk's legacy. If LeBron got not 5, not 6, not 7, but zero - that's a disaster for the NBA, mainstream sports media, & Nike who had spent the better part of a decade pumping him up as "Next". The NBA has been intervening on LeBron's behalf since he quit partway through game 6 in Boston in 2010.

It wasn’t for mj that they tried to put down Kobe, it for lebron. As they wanted to the narrative to be between lebron and mj not know and mj. Kobe’s success was ruining that the validity of that argument.

I'm a Mavs fan, but the veto'd Chris Paul trade still pisses me off. The NBA robbed us of a prime Kobe playing with Chris Paul. Considering what the league became, with star players picking their team-up spot to create super teams, it's even more annoying that Paul wasn't able to play with Kobe. At this point in time, it wasn't about keeping MJ their "poster child," it was about trying to push Lebron. People today think the media & fans have been overly-critical of LBJ, but for the first 7 years of his career, he could no wrong. Problem was Kobe was still widely considered the best player in the league, but the NBA had already anointed Lebron "the King," yet he still hadn't won an NBA ring.

Wow this is so Sad 😞 and yes I do believe David Stern did this to boost the hornets and the clippers I’ll never forget that game he tore his Achilles I felt so bad for him ❤️ and then Dwight Howard just wasn’t the right fit for the Lakers 🤦🏾‍♂️

No franchise has a bigger victim mentality than the franchise David Stern wanted two of smh "My ideal finals is the Lakers versus the Lakers"

They did bro dirty man

He should’ve won multiple mvps that the league gave to nash and nowitszki. That is blatant evidence against the league right there

Bynum was making a comeback in 2019.

i think if the trade had pushed thru,,yeah Mamba could have gotten at least 1-2 more wc would have been awesome ,i love KOBE RIP but im an MJ23 guy , and Kobe could have passed the reigns to CP3 for the Lakers . And then they allowed that superteam to get through for Miami wc Stern love for #LeBALCO

The name of former Laker Gasol is Pau, not Paul

I would go even further and say if he never got that injury he would never have retired early and he never would have gotten in that helicopter😭

Si it was 2011 to 2012 the lockout

Man this reminds me of how close we were to seeing a Kobe vs Bron finals. So close.

I can't see Kobe's tattoos and not think of the autopsy diagram photos

If Kobe wore high tops they would’ve prevented him from that Achilles injury something similar to the Kobe 1s or 2s

I DO think the league sabatoged Kobe's final years, but NOT to upsell the Clippers. It was more a marketing move to pass the torch and "Face of the League" title to a younger talent- in this case LeBron. The league executives clearly showed they were ready to move on from the Lakers and to the next big marketing plan.

10:22 but somewhere out there it’s a fool saying pau was just as good as Kg 🤣 yea right

So they literally did a lockout which kills attendance numbers just so Kobe wouldn't win more than MJ? I mean the CP3 trade is more believable but my understanding was keeping Stern couldn't loose value $ in the team and trading CP3 would have been just that.

i mean the league helped the lakers so much in the early 2000s ...so it balances out

Dhantay Jones ATL game

I still don't understand why Stern vetoed the trade. Has that ever happened before and afterwards? I didn't get to see the rest of the team implode with all those intentional fouls since I live in New York, so seeing them breaking down like that is shocking.

David Stern really fucked everything bro

the W in Nowitzki is pronounced like a V

I don't know if he screws Lakers but he surely screwed my rockets back then I was glad that we didn't get Paul gasol but boy I was wrong Paul was a student of the unlike Dwight Howard. Paul gasol wasn't a lock down defender like Dwight but he worked very hard on that end of the floor a became a champion twice Dwight was just ok doing gym cardios as his skill and did nothing to improve his offensive game his weak link. After all these years David's sterns tyranny his haunt me as we were deprived of the greatness of an already and true hall of famer Pau who would've done everything he could to fill yao's shoes for us ❤

Lakers due to their market, popularity, media narratives is the most priviliged franchise in the NBA..even when they suck they are in the center of attention..

"When LeBron James finally saved them" What? First season he was in LA they missed the playoffs lol

Most of what you said was valid but that last lebron saved them was so off. I liked your what if videos better, & I'm reminded of why I watch Skap attack more than any other sports talk channel on RU-vid

Phil Jackson called the Bad Boy Pistons bad for the NBA BUT ..... those Pistons NEVER did anything as dirty as the cheap shots in the Dallas - Los Angeles 2011 play offs.

That lakers squad was full of these kinda guys. Ron, lamar, Andrew, etc

Bynum foul was horrible, deservedly flagrant 2, but Odom on Dirk earlier might be the softest flagrant 2 ever

David Stern caused Kobebryant for the injury

Buh

And dont forget MIKE wanted his HORNETS back whatever MJ wants he gets....he brought the MONEY the game

In the end, nobody won from that stupidity of David Stern. Neither the Clippers or Hornets/Pelicans became champions or even got to the finals. So CP3's time was squandered with the Clippers and has zero rings to this day. Lakers got screwed from all this.

Dirtiest play? This guy never heard of Kermit Washington or saw any of Draymond green or Ron Artest’s career. Or Laimbeer or Rick Mahorn I guess…

I whole heatedly believe CP3 going to the Clippers was better for him than the Lakers

Wtf Donald sterling sold the team in 2014 for 2 billion$ how the fuck was it worth 500 million in 2014

Dirtiest play in NBA history? That play would've been a personal foul in the 50s,60s,and 70s.

Bro Odom was a known alcoholic and drug menace and the rest of the players offered in the CP3 deal were nobodies. The NBA can’t have small market teams be farm systems for the Lakers like it has always been (view Shaq,Paul Gasol, Dwight Howard, Lebron James) Lakers and other L.A. team don’t develop talent they buy them and Kobe was just mad they didn’t allow it for him

Do not gamble. Gambling is bad.

You should post that LeBron ped video you posted and deleted a few years back

Dirtiest play in NBA?? Not even close

Dey did da same wit Bron n his mvps even if u don’t fuk wit Bron u can’t convince me on why he hasn’t won a mvp in over 11 years 🤣🤣 da nba neva gone let someone outshine Jordan smh

If we are honest, Kobe has 4 titles. The league gave them Lakers that 02/03 win vs the Kings, cause they simply had too many foreign players. The NBA is an entertainment league. Poorly, in our world, that means, some adjusting, for the 'benefit' of the league.

KOBE

So Kobe was unable to understand his body and listen to others... Totally everyone not named Kobe Bryant fault.

Seeing Lakers fans pity themselves as if the League hasn’t been in their corner for YEARS is laughable. What happened here was another shady dealing by Stern, but it wasn’t “tO sToP tHe LaKeRs.” No, it was clearly a business deal. A shady one, and unfortunately one that affected Kobe’s remaining prime, but nothing INTENDED to undermine the Lakers. Still, I don’t love it, and I don’t blame Lakers fans for being upset. But the narrative that the League didn’t want to see the Lakers succeed is beyond laughable

I believe it true they didn’t want to ruin mikes legacy just like they want to do with bron also you can never pass Mj up you can’t do for the game what MJ did and that’s the deal to be in the conversation to be close but never get there …. They know why cause bron would of had to compete with a prime Kobe which he was never ready for the Olympics showed everyone even bron that HE WAS NOT THERE YET AND IT WOULD RUIN THE NARRATIVE OF HIM CHASING GHOST AND GIVING TIME TO CATCH UP BUT WITH KOBE HE WAS GOING TO KEEP EXCELING AND BEING GREAT

kobe is already one of the few with a 3 peat on their resume jordan is the only one with 2 do the math

Yeah Kobe complaining against NBA after the NBA favored the Lakers over the Kings in 2002. Totally legit.

LeBron saved the Lakers my ass.... They still missed the playoffs when he came and found out what that Western conference is like. The team didn't start losing that session until Lonzo got hurt

Good ol conspiracies.

After That 2012 Series Against The Mavs Its Been Downhill For The Whole Lakers Franchise Till This Day. Bubble Ring/19-20 Season Was The Only Good Team. Only Season The Franchise Wasnt Dysfunctional Lol 😂

kobe scored 60 in his final game. his final year wasnt ruined. why do fans think their opinions matter. all that matters is people buy sports memorabilia and tickets

LeBron wouldn’t have made the playoffs under same conditions in 2012-2013. Don’t believe me, here the facts the 2012-13 & 2018-19 Lakers were in a very similar situations. Aging Stars, injurys, coaching changes or bad coaches. 2-4 games outside of the playoffs picture around the all star break. Kobe said “Come hell or high water we are making the playoffs” Lebron said “Activating Playoff mode” both statements came during the All Star break. I admit given the circumstances of both teams, those were bold statements to make One player willed his team to the playoffs, the other one didn’t. These are things that stats don’t tell you. Stats don’t give context.

KOBE💍💍💍💍💍

I hated JJ Burea we literally couldn't stop him....but i hated bynum too...they definitely ruined kobe too they never wanted him to pass Mike.... the NBA killed him...

Who else thinks that Jordan's father was killed due to Mike's gambling problem? Any time that scenario has been brought up, it's shot down. What I think, Jordan lost big and refused to pay. Notorious gambler that he is. I'm not sure, but maybe he was told to throw a game and didn't. When he doesn't, his creditors sent the message.

Dirk the goat # MFFL

Everyone know the nba has been rigged for a very long time. The nba just think we are stupid and says Nuh uh

Dirk would have us in playoffs

My Goat #mambaforever 🐐