Nick Wright and Cris Carter on the Lakers retiring Kobe's #8 and #24 | FIRST THINGS FIRST 

First Things First: Cris Carter and Nick Wright as the best guard the game has ever seen

what i will remember the most about kobe, is his work ethic is what made him into the player he was through his career. he wasn't the #1 pick that all the teams were tanking to try and get. he wasn't the player every team scouted and eyed to draft. the lakers traded vlade divac for the draft rights to kobe on draft day when the hornets drafted him in like the middle of the draft he didn't start his first year he was a 6th man behind guys like eddie jones and nick van exel at the start. but his drive and his unrelenting passion and work ethic elevated his game into a top 10 player all time. and i will never forget when shaq was interviewed once he even spoke on kobe's air balls vs jazz those first couple years, kobe was the only player on the team whiling to take those shots no one else wanted to take the shots but he as a young player was whiling to swing big

First Things First: Cris Carter and Nick Wright the best laker ever. Sorry magic, love ya but even magic said it.

Top 3 Kobe haters of all time: Nick Wright, Nick Wright and Nick Wright

First Things First: Cris Carter and Nick Wright how he got to meet the mighty Harry Kane ov his favourite sports teams the mighty Tottenham Hotspurs!!!!!!!!!!!! And that he supports Tottenham too thus he must b the GOAT!!!!

NEVER

Same

Nerd2Hero that’s funny because he was boring watching you knew he was gone shoot and miss more times than not he suxxed

Donnie Pate lol you clearly never watched

Kobe and dont forget A.I. haha

1nOnly Kb24 probably because he has no chin so he has to grow a weird neck beard

His wife DID cheat on Nick with Kobe.... In 2004

DiLLy DiLLy okay wtf kobe do to him😂

Colin Cowherd has entered the chat

DiLLy DiLLy THATS gotta be it...!!!

Ronny Lopez I feel like that would lighten up the mood and everyone would be grateful for someone like that

Tyler LaylorSings Wrong! Thats just inapropriate.

Dude's horrible at this

Ronny Lopez lol no joke lol. You hit the nail on the head. He just dont stop. From what you remmber about kobe to let me hate on kobe wow, nick you are savage you are a savage hater.

I read this in his voice too 😂😂

We are all thinking the same thing haha

he is not hating he is just being honest and is able to see the negative that comes with the positive when it come with kobe

He isnt mad that kobe has more ring. He is probably mad that dumb people think he was the best player on the team for those 5 rings when in reality it was only 2. He gets the praise like he was the mvp for 5 rings which makes it close to jordan’s 6. But the truth is that its not close 😂

Luis Munoz Let's be real. Kobe was robbed out of a few MVPs & & far as Finals MVPs, if you're Shaq & you're going up against Ric Smit, a broke down Mutambo & Kenyon Martin... you're suppose to dominate. Quit sugar coating it! It's Kobe hate! Haha on that!

Travis Blair thank you for speaking the truth

Your picture is a minion wolverine crossover. You don’t get to have an opinion.

Jeff Cavanaugh okay good point

sheenster313 pau is a hof but I get what your saying

My main point was that he wasnt playing center but to be honest is he really hof?

sheenster313 if you are talking about pau gasol without a seed of doubt he is a future hall of famer.

Pau Gasol is a hall of famer remember kobe didn’t get out the first round after shaq lefted until Gasol got their

@@alwill6289 PAu Gasol only was a allstar once before joining the Lakers, he may be a hof because he jointed the Lakers.

junta more facts 😩

That's LeBron's stans favorite thing to do. They'd discredit their mothers if it could prop LeBron up.

Lord Clarke when you look at the numbers and longevity you could def make the argument lol

Lord Clarke lol Duncan undoubtedly is

Jaime Gregorio right especially has a unselfish franchise player this guy tripping

Can't compare centers to non centers

Wolves Fan since 2017 We talking about all time. Yes you can

Tonio5100 3 trips with bynum 2 chips

Ry so you calling Bynum a HOF center? How many all star teams did he make in his career 🤔🤔🤔👀👀👀

Bhaskaran Krishna Kamaraj Gasol was a PF

Bhaskaran Krishna Kamaraj yea key word NOW..... But in Memphis Gasol played PF & in LA Gasol played PF until the end of his LA years then he started playing C on the Bulls & Spurs

Bhaskaran Krishna Kamaraj give me the New York Knicks starting lineup by position 🤔👀

Talk lebron never had the luxuries of Kobe and Jordan with all these Hall o game teammates and coaches

Lakers in 2006: 45-27, 7th seed and face the Sun's Cavs in 2006: 45-27,4th seed, plays the 42 win Wizards

kobe made it to the playoffs with kawmi brown and smush parker that in itself is an accomplishment and their in the west nuff said

WhiteBoySky The coaches thing I’ll give you, but it’s proven fact that Lebron has had more help winning than Kobe. 1.4 all stars compared to 1. Since Lebron guys like their stats so much, there’s one for you.

@@whiteboysky5010 What you mean?? 2006 and 2007 Kobe had no HOF teammates. Nick was comparing how LeBron without all star help made finals out from east but kobe without all star help didn't make it out of round 1

Militarize same for Shannon lol

Everything is linked to LeBron with Skip, dude is obsessed with LeBron; only difference is Skip tries to tear down Bron's legacy as much as possible.

LT yea but Shannon can approach things objectively, but some of the blame can be placed on skip that always eggs him on.

ESPN?

Nick did not mention anything positive about Kobe in this segment. It's like I said, when he talks about any player that's not LeBron he can't name anything good. LeBron hasn't won without big names surrounding him. Love and Irving are future hof. Wade and Bosch are also hof. Nick is a poor host on tv and should be able to talk about other players without degrading them bc he doesn't want to hurt his boyfriend LeBrons feelings. I can say players like Kobe, Shaw, Tim Duncan, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, John starks, Shawn Kemp, Charles Barkley, Ervin magic Johnson, Larry bird, Clyde Drexler, Isaiah Thomas, Charles Oakley, Scottie pippen are great players and name moments when they did some great things in the sport. Not all of them are champions. John starks is one of the best to defend MJ in the 93 eastern conference championship for example. It doesn't bring MJ down because he was unleashed by game 3 and the rest is history.

He won 2 rings on his own. Gotta give Shaq credit where he deserves it.

hector cervantes 110% correct. The most important stat is that he went 5-2 in The Finals. He also put up 9 straight games of 40 plus, 4 straight of 50 plus: 2 of those were 60, scored 63 in 3 qtrs vs The West Champs Mavs, 81, has a winning playoff record vs the Spurs

HAHAHAHA chill bro

Well we all know the 2003 ring shouldn't count bc that series was 100% rigged and was even admitted by refs

Wolves Fan since 2017 you mean 2002. That series was rigged to take it to a Game 7. The home team will get the free throw advantage.

Puck I mean skip bayless is anti Lebron so there’s gotta be balance

Jayylen 24 There's no balance on FS1, morning begins with Nick Wright, then we get LeShannon Sharpe, and finally Cowherd

nick is dellusional skip just hates to hard

I bet him and Skip put out these crazy views out to the public to build their personal brand and bring ratings to their shows. If you are a basketball fan, player, and even know a little about the sport then these crazy rants are just unbelievable.

@@skywalker2676 Bro this is literally a dudes jersey retirement, if we're having a segment about Kobe vs LeBron fine but this literally had nothing to do with a comparison between Kobe and Nick's man crush and one true love LeBron

cenki95 Exactly! Duncan is 2-4 against Kobe!

More like against Kobe and Shaq. not fair

Mark Warner He beat Duncan after Shaq too! Thank you!

Mark Warner Duncan had David Robinson, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili. Let's not act like Timmy didn't have a squad

MegaTank40 exactly lol spurs always had a squad and he got the greatest coach of all time

Pau gasol is 7’0 and hes a hall of famer

Could have been

Pau is a PF

Lebron wouldn't make the playoffs if he played with pau gasol lol gtfoh andrew bynum isn't a hall of fame center neither nick wright doesn't deserve his job

Frefer Porti If LEBRON HAD PRIME SHAQ HE WOULDVE WON LIKE 5-7 rings

Frefer Porti lebron averages more points, rebounds, assists, better fg and 3pt percentages and also better percentages in the clutch (last 2 minutes) and better percentage of go ahead baskets to win/the games

WhiteBoySky all them stats but I bet the players who played the game want Kobe with the ball over lebron any day of the week

WhiteBoySky what if Kobe had a scorer like Kyrie? Or how about Bosh & Wade? Plus, stats are overrated, what matters is winning. How many championships does Stockton have?

yeah LJ did not have Shaq, he only had DW in his prime ("but no superstar") and Kyrie ("no superstar") lol

clint warner Ahahaha! 😂😂😂😂 So true!

FIND X shaq won 3 of kobe's 5

FIND X I'm a Spurs fan. Tim Duncan is the greatest OF ever but Kobe is better! Nick Weight just hates anyone no LeBron

Tim Duncan in that same time never won less than 50 games won the mvp twice. Never missed the playoffs made Parker and ginobili. Into hall of famers. Can kobe say that?????? He scored 81 what else has he done that tim didn’t

@@alwill6289 he averaged 35ppg

@@alwill6289 Timmy never had to switch anything till the end he played with the same core group of players his whole career not to mention having pop his whole career give Timmy smush Parker and Kwame Brown see if they win 50 games Pop's the greatest of all-time as a coach even he couldn't fix Kwame Brown

I know i caught it . Wtf

Magic Johnson is.

Talk Lavar Ball*

Kareem is the greatest laker ever. If you argue this, you don’t know basketball

Kobe is

Kobe all day

michael blackshear 3 of them chips was all because of shaq. Kobe was great but no better than LeBron!

Cedric jones kobe wasn't some role player tf are you saying...shaq also had penny and couldn't win the big game..kobe definitely was a big part of thoes 3 rings

michael McDonald he was a big part just wasn't the best player on his team. LeBron always been the best player on his team. Put it like this..if LeBron had a prime shaq, how many rings would they have?

Cedric jones let's be real shaq was dominant but let's not act like Kobe wasn't the truth. Mind you I never liked Kobe ... But how many teams won chips without multiple HOFers... Mind u he played against tougher comp being in the west.... Last point let's not talk about lebron bringing trash 07 cavs to the finals it was in the east Dwight Howard did it to with the magic.....

Cedric jones the offense and priority was shaq he was the older more established player..ofcourse shaq was the best player on that team but that shaq would be the best player on lebron's team as well...remember the only reason shaq isn't the goat because he move around too much to establish anything consistent..my question could lebron take a back seat to shaq? Atlast but not least kobe hit alot of late shots and free thoes to hep win thoes champions could lebron do that?? Could be play in a triangle or take criticism from phil? We forget its alot more to winning basketball than individual stats

He made the finals in 07 but I get wat u saying

NICK IS TOPS IN LBJ'S PAYROLL!

But then again Fox Sports 1 rides on hot narrative based arguments for ratings so it probably will

I know man.. I know

factsss💔

Andycandyman24 I agree. Most of nicks videos have LeBron somehow tied into his videos and he can never talk about another player without mentioning LeBron. It gets very old. LeBron should not have been mentioned in this segment because the segment was suppose to be focused on Kobe

Forget Nick, LeBron is better than Kobe and it isn't close. Why don't you put it into context, LeBron has dominated every series he has been in except the Mavericks meltdown and has only really lost because his team couldn't keep up, he had no help at all the first half of his career with the Cavs, LeBron also had no help against the spurs in the last year with the heat when Wade and Bosh were posted MIA, Kyrie and K. Love went down at the start of the series against the Warriors when they were 2-1 up and then KD broke the NBA last year with the most snake move in the history of the league. It's nice saying 3-6 as if hes a loser and all that but why don't you give context onto those numbers and how he performed in those series with the Mavs of course being the only legitimate blemish, And let's not even get started on how many rings LeBron would have won if he was drafted into a team with a prime Shaq, at least 5 pr 6 anyway before Shaq declined. Look at the stat lines and ask yourself this, why is it Kobe so often was picked up by his team mates in Playoff series yet LeBron is always putting everyone on his back, yet Kobe is the real killer because he likes to chuck up the last shot that more often than not doesn't go in.

Bro he lost to the celtics that kobe beat and lost favored against the magic that kobes team beat. so again just stop man. put kobe in the east his number go up to a crazy statistic. Nick saying Kobe isn't the best in any era is disrespect like most lebron lovers do.

And in the east you can't dispute that the league is a stat and offense friendly league with no dominant big men. And rules that support big stats, again thats something you can't defend.

So LeBrons stats all come from the east in the regular season? LeBron faced the big 3 with no crew when in Cleveland I already addressed that, Kobe and Shaq lost to the pistons look what LeBron did to them all by himself, like literally all by himself, scored the last 25 points to win it he had NOBODY. I don't dislike Kobe at all hes one of my favourite players but It's pathetic how people try to discredit LeBron without looking at all the facts. Kobe also lost to the Celtics if you hadn't heard. He also played terrible in the game 7 where they beat the Celtics shooting 25% so I'd say the Lakers beat the Celtics not Kobe like you try and make out and I can only imagine how bad he would have lost against the big 3 if he was on that no name Cavs team LeBron had to face them with. LeBron on the other hand was often carrying everyone in most series' he ever played in but keep pretending its all because of the eastern conference smh such a weak excuse you sound like Skip Bayless.

This is the only comment that makes sense

money island ryko thats exactly what nick was saying being a fan of his style

give the black mamba his due nick

u dont even know what a what a decade is LMAO

Lol

Darrell Saunders when healthy, it could’ve been possible

Darrell Saunders no one is saying that he was coming around as a young good center thats all.

just stop

He's not tho

Jeremiah Scott he is tho😂

*sigh I genuinely don't know how you can watch basketball and have this opinion.

Tituru Fighturu because I am just smarter then you

So on an all time list you're taking KD over LeBron?

Evan Rohde I believe last year in the NBA finals provide that kd was better than lebron lebron is a great player but there's 20 other guy better in NBA history

Buddy King that’s just ignorant, you can’t base the greatness off of two NBA players who both have not retired off of one series. LeBron dominated KD in 2012 so what’s your argument for that? I’ll listen to an argument if you think KD is better right now, but he is not and will not be better than LeBron all time. LeBron has way more accolades than KD

@Andrew Dunn Gasol did play Center. Gasol also never won a playoff game, not series game until he played with Kobe. Gasol was also only a 1 time all-star before he played with Kobe, and would not be a hof player if he didn't play with Kobe

Andrew Dunn If he played and won with Bynum who is not a HOF center how does that not disqualify his statement? 😳

HM SO TRUE””