This is Why Kobe Cussed Out Charles Barkley for 3 Hours After Lakers Game 7 Loss To Suns In 2006 

The key barometer of the series was when Shawn Marion wasn't in foul trouble the Suns won. When he was in foul trouble the Lakers won because Marion's energy and rebounding was essential to the Suns offense without the rebounds they can't control the pace.

If you take Kobe off those laker teams after shaq & before gasol, they would be the worst team in the NBA

Reminder that despite only having 1 point in the second half of game 7... kobe still averaged 34 on 56% from the field and 50% from 3 in those final 3 losses.

Kobe's 1 assist while passing the whole 2nd Half shows you how bad that team was...

When he shoots too much he's selfish When he passes too much he's selfish 😕

Kenny Smith was spot on, Kobe couldn’t do anything without always being foolishly criticized. Kobe was one of the greatest teammates in basketball history, but the media always found a way to portray him as being selfish 🤦🏽‍♂️

Goddamn kobe was hated by the media back then, imagine if this shit happened today

Kenny is killing me with that big ass suit 😭😭

Chuck completely wrong about the finals prediction 🤣

Fast forward to 2008- 2009-2010 the sun's didn't have shit on Kobe

Kobe had trash ass teams he'd easily win 7-8 easy he got his teammates easy shots they just sucked

He dropped 23 points on 8-13 in the first half and they were already getting blown out. This coming after they were one defensive rebound away from putting the series away in game 6 when he dropped 50. What more could he have done? That Lakers team had no business even being in a position to win the series.

Kobe was right about everything but only thing he was missing here is Leadership and soon as he picked that up with legit 2nd option Gasol, we all know what happend

Didn’t realize these three(Chuck, Kenny, and Ernie) have been together since 2006!! Legends

For Kobe to make the 7th seed in the compacted West with the weakest team any Superstar has ever played with. Take the team with the 2nd best record in NBA that year to 7 gms by himself was extraordinary!!! #8/24 🐐

Kobe not shooting the ball was considered selfish. That's how great he was. RIP

Kobe was catching heat this series because they said he was shooting too much but he was the ONLY reason they had a 3-1 lead.. and they nearly won they lost on a buzzer beater..

So weird seeing these guys so much younger. Where do the years go?

Kobe let the media get to him and Charles was wrong they didn’t play very well at all and Kenny was right that’s exactly what happened it’s damned if you do and damned if you don’t

It doesn't matter what the media is saying, if your team is winning bc you're scoring, then that's what you have to do. Kobe stopped playing his game and they lost Game 7. If a certain player were to only shoot 3x in the second half of a Game 7 and lost, you know you'd never hear the end of it.

Dude made 8 shots, and scored 24 points…

I remember this like yesterday , came back with gasol and Odom a couple years later and dominated again

That was 07… the following 3 years for the lakers (without Shaq) was unforgettable. 🏆🏆

Chuck was right. Kobe was in full pout mode

Ppl really believe Kobe cussed out Charles for 3 hours Lol more like 5 minutes that felt like 3 hours!

It’s pretty easy to forget now that Kobe was the one the media would try to pile on at every turn like they do any other star player. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

Wow... Kobe loses with Kwame and Smush and hes not a leader, Lebron loses with wade, kyrie and AD and westbrook and its everyone elses fault. The jealousy and hate was real...

Wow classic!!!!!! Miss those NBA days and Kobe

Kobe played both sides of the ball as good as anyone. 9 time First Team All Defensive tied with Jordan, Garnett and Payton, and 3 All Defensive Second team. 12 altogether tied with Garnett. He was not just an offensive player. How many "scorers" also play defensive? He was always asking Payton about how to better his defense.

Classic, this was one of my most memorable season and when if first started watching inside the NBA

Lakers had no business being up 3-1 anyway

I saw a bunch of open missed shots from professional basketball players.

Kenny was just getting his confidence here imo. Greatest sports talk show ever

Man who was Kobe’s barber back then

Smush Parker, Aaron Mckie, Luke Walton, Brian Cook, Sasha Vujacic, Devan George, Ronnie Turiaf. It’s players nowadays who would sit this game out!! 🤣😂

as a kobe fan chuck just says what he thinks is right, love him or hate him, I will always gonna defend his right to say those things even if kobe gets affected

Where's the part where he said Kobe cussed him out 🤔

The big suit era is nasty man 😂😂

Kobe was the most hated playing damn near in NBA history… listen to Chuck literally say no matter what Kobe was going to be criticized for his efforts.

Kobe after Shaq was a point to be proven for him. He could win without shaq he just needed competent talent around him not people who feed off him solely throughout their games

MJ would have said fuck the game plan and take matters into his own hands every game. I love Kobe but he was wrong for this.

Barkley always keeps it real. He don't give a damn what the fanboys think.

Damn these boys look young asf, anyone watching in 2023?

Oh So this is where LBJ got it from. I seen James do this very thing so many times throughout his career. He'd just pass, not shoot, when the game is over he'd talk about how he'd tried to get his teammates involved so he won't take the blame for a loss.

😂 at the whole comment section turning into Kobe vs LeBron.

That's why u hve to respect Barkley. He gives analysis like he played da game unafraid. Respect.

How does Chuck call Kobe selfish for shooting three shots in the second half but also in the same segment he points out how the Lakers got destroyed by Phoenix in the regular season despite Kobe averaging 44 points. So even if he goes off for 40 or 50, the Lakers are so bad and Phoenix is so good and uptempo, they can't beat them.

Chuck was right and that's why Kobe got mad and came on the show because he was being sensitive about Chuck telling the truth and exposing him just like when Chuck told the truth about LeBron and said he didn't want to compete and wanted to play with everybody. Everybody loves Chuck for being brutally honest until he's brutally honest about their favorite player then he's just totally wrong and is a hating ringless old fuddy-duddy.

Lol, "Leandro Barbosa " highlights! 👀

Kenny wearing a trench coat

Kobe was so fucking good and resilient and smart

With looking at the plays from the 2:28-3:13 mark, I don’t see how Kobe quit. Maybe Kobe could’ve been more active off the ball by moving without the ball or cutting. But if Kobe is moving without the ball, it would make Kobe’s teammates want to pass the ball to him even more which would be against Phil’s strategy of the offense not being ran solely on Kobe in the second half. Kobe moving without the ball is a signifier of trying to get open or a way to attempt a shot & that’s not what Phill wanted. Phil wanted Kobe to pass the rock & have his teammates create for themselves cause it would entice his teammates to play better defense if their were more involved in the offense. Kobe was not distorting the spacing by being out of the play. It’s not like what Harden did in HOU standing around near halfcourt when he’s out of the play. Kobe was just standing at the top of the 3 close to the proximity of where his teammates operated. Even with Kobe standing around not being directly involved in the offense, Kobe was calling plays where he brought the ball up as the PG & Kobe pointed to his teammates where to be or pass to when he was off the ball. Kobe communicating to his teammates on where to be & where to score shows he was involved in the plays. Kobe was trying to be a decoy because Kobe didn’t want the Suns defensive attention on him due to what Phil wanted from him. Kobe is so polarizing, no matter what you say, people will be convinced Kobe quit when it’s far from the case. You can see Kobe didn’t quit just by the film. People think if you not running around a bunch of screens like Curry your selfish & your just wrong about that. Fans need to understand the game of bball before u start projecting certain false narratives or taking fiction as facts

Barbosa was nice during this era

Kobe : " You have to work hard no excuses at all !" Kobe Fans : * Make every excuse in the book for Kobe failing *

Raja Bell always thought of himself of one of those guys like Artest, Bowen, or Battier. He was not lmao just a dirty player who Kobe was not fazed by

Idk if I can agree with Chuck. I rewatched that game a few weeks ago and the Lakers started that game horrible. They were missing layups, they were missing wide open shots, they were fumbling the ball instead of finishing at the rim. This game was over basically in the 1st qtr. Yea Kobe came out and hit some shots in the first half, but the rest of the team didn’t have it and he saw that. If Kobe would’ve went out there and scored 50 then they would’ve lost by 20 instead of 31. But idk I guess it was worth a shot to try lol. But one thing someone put me up on was every time Kobe’s team lost the final game in a series, knocking them out of the playoffs for some reason they always get blown tf out!

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Kobe scored 50 in game six, the Lakers could not get one rebound and Tim T. hit the 3 to tie the game. They had to win game 6, was not going to win game 7. Tbh they should of never been up 3-1 in the first place, but Kobe’s greatest is the reason why. Put Steve Nash on Lakers and Kobe on the Suns, Suns with Kobe would sweep Lakers with Nash. And put LBJ on this Lakers team and they would not even make the playoffs.

Steve Nash with the drip. Literally

How do you defend Kobe losing 3-1? He has to close that deal.

Damn, it's crazy they've been doing it this long

Im a kobe fan but if you watch the way kobe is passing hes clearly sabotaging the game. His passes are effortless,creates no momentum, and he just stands there not moving and crowding the receiver, basically do bare minimum to purposely put his teammates in bad shooting positions so he can look innocent. But having dine things like this myself its obvious what Kobe was doing. Be honost guys!

The fact that Laker team made it that far was an achievement.

Imagine if lebron called Barkley to complain about him criticizing him, he’d get killed for it….

Every time Kobe gave the ball up those were good ass looks. His teammates just failed to connect

I'm always down for unfiltered opinions like Barkely gives but Barkely literally contradicted himself.. First he said Kobe was selfish by not shooting Then he turns around and say they should pound it inside because thats the suns weakness and that's exactly what Kobe was doing.. On top of that he said Kobe averaged 44ppg doing the regular season against the suns and they still loss

This was possibly the worst Lakers team to make it to the playoffs. For context, the Lakers were the 7th seed, the fact Kobe had them in a Game 7 to begin with is wild. Phil also did what he loved to do, and used the media to undermine Kobe's 50 in Game 6, as if that was the reason they lost. For people to use this as some kind of hit to his legacy has always been crazy...

Barkley is 100% right! Anyone who disagrees with what he says and tries to make excuses for Kobe, has ZERO CREDIBILITY!! Kobe is great, he moved on and learned from it.

We're just gonna act like EJ's Neat-O Stat of the Night still doesn't have a sponsor? I think I've only seen a sponsor one time, and it was Taco Bell 🤣

now we all know who was right.

See what never got leaked was At halftime.of Game 7 in the 06 Suns Series Phil told Kobe to get Odom and Kwame Involved and that's exactly what he did and they went 9-20 and the entire team went 27-75 for the entire game..

Kobe flat out quit. No excuse for that man.

Kenny’s suit and crooked tie haha

He was being double teamed and passed to an open shot that the teammates kept missing 🙄

Every time chuck say them guys played great they played awesome every time he say that the highlights show them shooting bricks building houses 🏠 like westbrick

That's the difference between kobe and jordan...jordan wouldn't of listen. Jordans first 6 or so years he was called a ball hog and he wouldn't win with that style of play.. phil ask jordan just to trust his teammates alittle more they went over flim, then the rest is history. Jordan was still ball dominant and won his way..if you want to shut people up just win..

Watchit this in 2024. I never thought they had this happen with KOBE.

Jokes on all these Kobe haters in the comment section.... after the next season Kobe rattled off 3 straight finals appearances including back to back finals wins. He sure as hell silenced all the "Heat won the shaq trade" people didnt he 🤫

Let LeBron do sum like this and he'll be slandered to oblivion

Wow even though I was born in 03, I never knew Inside The NBA did gone fishing for as long as they have. 11:41

Kobe quit ... period

Lakers fans were booing and chanting "kobe sucks" while he scored 50 points in game 6. In game 7 kobe had score 24 points in the first half on his way to another 50 point game. But the fans were still booing him because they were calling him a ball hog. Kobe takes note of it and signify to the fans ' I hear ya' . In the second he doesn't shoot the ball instead he paases off the ball the whole second half. He was sending a message to the fans that that if he doesn't score the lakers dont have a chance of winning. The lakers didnt have any other player that could score so he gave the fans what the fans wanted that kobe stop hogging the ball and pass it to other guys to score. But as it turned out the lakers team got blown away and out of playoffs. The lakers were garbage witout kobe . Thats essentially what happened. Kobe was carrying the team all by himself and fans thought he was ball hog

This is another reason why he is the greatest.

key point dont change who you are. be kobe no matter what.

Like Detroit series he knew he wasn’t going to beat them but kept playing like he was

lol they're down 25 barkey: he's selfish

Kobe finished with 24 points in this game 7, I think this was intentional Because he switched to number 24 the next season, this was his last game wearing number 8. He knew what he was doing but passing the whole second half once he got 24 points lol 🐐 🐐

10:49 Chuck vs very wrong about that prediction

Legacy tarnished?

11:12 when EJ Neat-O stat of the night actually have a stat.

You mean Kobe Bryant was not a basketball Saint and could never do any wrong on the basketball court?!?!?!? Wowwww 😅🤣😂

Crazy you can’t find anything ab this but the lakers was up 3-1 btw😂😂😂

Kobe absolutely quit on his team in this series.

This is the moment people realize that Kobe and Lebron are not in the same level. Lebron has pretty bad team as well in Cleveland, roster wise. He never quit, or disrespect his opponents, team, coaches and teammates in this fashion . This is a message game? Like get me an AllStar asap? In a game 7 of a playoff series at that. Quit Game. Good thing he delivered two rings after this quit game. But to alot of people this game put Lebron way ahead of Kobe, in all areas of basketball.

Let this be Bron we wouldn't never heard the end of it 😂

Chuck said Shaq wasn’t gonna get passed Detroit Shaq wins a championship lol

Kwame Brown…….. nuff said

Media used to ask better basketball questions back in the day.

That was thee low point in Kobe's career. I don't know what that was. But it was intentionally done. And no Kobe fanatic can cover that.

I remember watching this series I thought the lakers had it when they were up 3-1