[Highlight] Kobe Bryant severs Jeremy Lin’s head
Kobe hated Lin so much. Lin torched the lakers when he was still the linsanity
Lin played for the Lakers before playing for the Hornets and Kobe famously stopped talking to him halfway through that season.
Man, Kobe’s dogshit ability to be even a half decent teammate is so disappointing. I wish more common folk knew how much of a straight up ass hole he was.
Lmao they do, they call it “Mamba mentality” 😭
I mean to be fair the lakers pr is insane they also fixed the narrative about Shaq they were both terrible people
Yeah, some of Shaq’s locker room stories are absolutely insane
All kinds of shit.
Literally
“Old school mentality” is a euphemism disguising blatant abuse under “men’s locker room atmosphere.”
Edit: Y’all he literally shat in Devean George’s shoe
How tf does one even shit in a shoe lmao
Like, Shaq couldn’t hit a free throw but apprently he can shoot his shit inside someone’s shoe perfectly
Doesn’t seem that hard man i’m gonna be honest. You know where it’s gonna come out
And sticking someone’s toothbrush up his butt… he’s genuinely a weirdo
It’s interesting, as an analyst Shaq presents himself well enough I guess. Gets into scuffles with Chuck that are egotistical but overall, idk he seems fine. But if you ever see Shaq on like, Hot Ones or something, my god he’s unbearable.
as an analyst Shaq presents himself well enough I guess
Tell me you never watched inside nba without telling me
Couple of years ago he was trashing Detroit saying he doesn’t watch them, (that’s part of his fucking job) they were boring and not going to the playoffs not realizing at that time they were like the 6th seed. He didn’t even know who the coach was. As I’m typing I just realized he’s prolly still salty about 2004.
But you can tell when he gets upset he’s thinking about doing something with his poopoo
I’ll take Kobe over Shaq dumping feces on me anyday lol
After a few years people only remember the rings.
Whenever someone uses “Mamba mentality” unironically, I just know they’re an asshole trying to make themselves feel better lmfao
“Your honor, what the woman says is true but that wasn’t me. That was the mamba.”
“Acquitted of all charges, what a brave leader we have in the room with us.”
“We mamba. You can assume.”
LOL fair enough.
I loved Kobe growing up but hearing all these stories about him really sucks to hear and I can’t help but have it taint his legacy to me. Being a good teammate is such an essential part of team sports, I learned so much from that aspect growing up.
Jordan was a shitty teammate too
Jordan convinced an entire generation of weekend warriors that being an overly competitive dick to everyone was a virtue.
Holy hell, well said. I used to play ball with these older dads on Saturdays and they were a bunch of passive aggressive jerks who thought they were soooo good.
This actually reasonably explains so much of it.
Meanwhile lebron had the lowest scoring starter in nba finals history on his team and he never called him out. Kobe threw anyone he didnt like under the bus and then drove over them himself.
Oh stfu lol.
LeBron doesn’t normally call people out publicly, but he has had his own way of taking out those that he thinks are trash. He wasn’t nicknamed “LeGM” for example nothing.
LeBron calls people out and throws them under the bus all the time in a passive aggressive way lol. He also gets his entourage to plant stories as well. He tried to get Eric Spoelstra when he was on the Heat. Pat wasn’t having any of that. He even bumped his shoulder into Spoelstra during a game. This revisionist history of LeBron on this sub is wild.
people know and dont care, same with jordan and others
very few athletes are actually good people and wholesome
there’s some hometown heroes and local legends but not top tier big show athlete that’s nice like that, that’s very rare
All tings considered LeBron actually is a pretty decent guy. He gets even his scrubs paid
I remember those videos with Kanye coming out and like you could see the narrative change right in front of us. He wasn’t an asshole - it was mamba mentality? Rapist? Nah that was number 8! This is number 24!!!
PR masterclass in manipulating idiots
It’s honestly hilarious that the one thing he didn’t pick up from reading Bill Russell’s book was being a good teammate.
It’s so weird within the context of people using that shit as their justification as to why LeBron is inferior.
Mamba mentality… killer instinct… whatever you wanna call it. I’m glad there’s players Like Duncan & LeBron that have proven that you can win without being an asshole.
You named my 2 favorite players. Timmy D is playing sports the right way. Even his trash talk a lot of the time was telling guys how to guard him and then still beating them
lol everyone knew or knows
his reputation is 60 percent helicopter at this point, there’s before and after the incident
Kind of crazy how everyone glosses over the whole rape still.
It’s like OJ. People want to love their image of the man before they knew he committed a heinous violent crime against a woman he was intimate with and not who he actually was.
Not at all like OJ. People liked OJ on a personal level. He had friends. Kobe did not.
From Shaq’s book:
Kobe stands up and goes face-to-face with me and says, “You always said you’re my big brother, you’d do anything for me, and then this Colorado thing happens and you never even called me.” I did call him. … So here we are now, and we find out he really was hurt that we didn’t stand behind him. That was something new. I didn’t think he gave a rat’s ass about us either way. “Well, I thought you’d publicly support me, at least,” Kobe said. “You’re supposed to be my friend.” Brian Shaw chimed in with “Kobe, why would you think that? Shaq had all these parties and you never showed up for any of them. We invited you to dinner on the road and you didn’t come. Shaq invited you to his wedding and you weren’t there. Then you got married and didn’t invite any of us. And now you are in the middle of this problem, this sensitive situation, and now you want all of us to step up for you. We don’t even know you.”
I don’t find any of this hard to believe one bit. But I also seriously doubt Shaq’s ability to be an unbiased story teller about anything involving him
I really don’t think that people aren’t aware about how much of an asshole he was. Same could be said about Jordan or pretty much any great player that I know of in almost every sport. Maybe not Magic, everyone loves Magic.
Because Jeremy had the audacity to request that Kobe treat him like an adult
He didn’t understand mamba mentality 💪
i get im not adding anything by saying this but, this is fucking hilarious
Kobe can have his “Mamba mentality” as much as he pleases, but the way you treat your teammates matters too. And the way Kobe treated Lin was shitty as fuck. Just pathetic stuff.
It’s always funny to me how more teammates seemed to dislike Kobe than Jordan despite both being known assholes and MJ even straight up punching people in the face.
I’m starting to think that this Kobe fellow might not be a good person.
Kobe and Shaq were really made for another
His treatment of Lin was honestly so fucking lame. The way he behaved at the end of his career was a bit of a stain because of how terrible of a teammate he was.
He refused to gracefully ride out his last few years on a poor Lakers team while also declining to move to a better contender, and it was terrible for everyone involved. He wasn’t playing anywhere near well enough to justify his douchebag behavior towards the end.
That was just Kobe, he was like that his whole career.
And he can still be an asshole…Kobe being “Just Kobe” isn’t an excuse to be a POS.
I don’t think he meant it as an excuse. Just to point out that Kobe wasnt just an asshole towards the end of his career when the team was struggling.
Oh i totally agree. I didn’t meant to excuse his behavior, I was pointing out he was always an asshole, not just at the end.
Lakers had great pr with him and also Shaq pissing and shitting on everyone
If anything, he realized at the end of his career that that would be his legacy and then somehow flipped it to being supportive of the next generation. Kind of a wild turnaround after being a total fucking asshole his whole life.
I heard that Shaq hazed him pretty bad in the early days. One time put Kobe’s mouth guard up his ass then rapped about it “Kobe tell me how my ass tastes”.
End of his career? Dude was an asshole his entire career and also assaulted a woman. He happens to have some of the best PR of all time. His status as player and person is vastly inflated.
Facts. He’s the definition of an asshole jock who is glorified because he’s a basketball god. And his worshippers never want to hear or talk about his negative past because it hurts their feelings and they have to contend with their cognitive dissonance on who he actually was.
The way he treated all his teammates is a huge stain on his legacy and the biggest reason I don’t have Kobe in my top 10. I always have thought if he had even an ounce of selflessness during his career he could have easily gotten a sixth ring.
“All of his teammates” is a gross overstatement. Pau, D-Fish, Odom, Butler, MWP, Barnes, even all of the USA Olympic teammates… all said great things about him during and after being teammates.
I also feel like he hated Lin because their philosophies were so different when it came to basketball. People loved Lin for being humble and kind which Kobe infamously was not. And there’s always the possibility of internalized racism underlying it
Def had some racism in there. People don’t want to admit it though, not just specifically Kobe either
People definitely prejudge your abilities on the court due to race. Not just nba. You see it in pickup games all the time.
At the peak of Linsanity, leading up to the Knicks Lakers game, reporters were asking Kobe what he thought of Lin.
Kobe said he didn’t know who that was.
Of course, he know who Lin was. But what he really meant was, I’m Kobe Bryant and this Chinese kid came off the bench and surpassed my popularity overnight. Why do I have to pay him any heed at all?
Lin scored 38 points that evening.
100% Kobe held onto that grudge.
Lin said in interview he admitted he was extra pumped to prove himself that night because he saw the Kobe interview where Kobe basically went “Who? Naw, didn’t really pay any attention to this Linsanity” (despite it being the biggest news in sports at the time).
Lin looked up to Kobe so he got extra fired up to prove himself on the court.
Never meet your heroes.
Is that the only reason he hated him?
He called kobe out bascially in private saying he was shooting the team out of the game. Kobe sucked post achilles injury. Kobe took offense to what lin said.
There were games he would be okay ish but most games he would shoot them out of the game
A mature leader might have reacted in that situation but upon reflection would have accepted that criticism.
He was on the Lakers before he got his hot streak.
Kobe hated him.
Loved kobe as a player, but man had a well known reputation for being a dick. It is a shame, cause it seems he mellowed out a lot at the end of his career and after. Wish we could’ve seen him mature into his retirement years. Arrogant asshole is the best label for him for most of his playing career, though. Can’t be denied.
Edit. I am dead the fuck wrong. He was on the Lakers after the Knicks. Kobe was just being Kobe. A dick.
He also raped that one girl.
Also groomed Vanessa when she was still a minor. Kobe was a complete scumbag
No, he was on the Lakers after his hot streak by about 4 years.
What?
He was Linsanity on the Knicks before the Lakers
When they were still teammates. Kobe said “ some of you bums are going to get traded” .
Was Kobe even playing that game? I feel I recall he was out injured. But ya, dude had some serious animosity towards Lin.
Yes he played, Kobe scored 34 shooting 11⁄29 while Lin scored 38 shooting 13⁄23
yes he was. kobe had 34
Lin scored 38 on better efficiency, you know Kobe was fuming
Kobe scored 34 that game so no injuries
Lin was never treated fairly by the nba legends in his era. The fans loved him even if he was only really amazing for one season-ish. He’d proven himself even after linsanity only to continue being bullied.
He didn’t get treated fairly by refs either.
There are so many clips of him being an absolute ass to Lin. That one where Lin goes to help him up and Kobe steps on his foot and pushes it back is almost as bad as this
Doing that and acting like nothing happened is wild
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Your honour, I swear I didn’t know who she was calling out to when she yelled “Ron Hole”
I mean he did basically end up confessing in his settlement statement/letter/whatever for that other thing
He still is, he’s just also dead too.
MWP acting like it’s a flop too.
Metta World Peace
The Artist Formerly Known as Ron Artest
Great player or not almost every story about Kobe makes him look like an a..jerk.
The Kobe PR turnaround is honestly pretty insane. He was seen as a diva that didn’t get along with teammates. Then he raped a woman.
His redemption arc was mostly just changing his number, making up the corniest nickname for himself, and telling people how he worked harder than everyone else. It’s wild that no one thinks telling everyone to call you “Black Mamba” and bragging about “Mamba Mentality” was lame. Imagine if SGA sexually assaulted someone and then was like “Call me Rattlesnake now.”
Somehow that worked for Kobe and he became a hero to a whole generation of players and fans.
It wasn’t a PR turnaround, though. At the time of these events, Kobe being a dick to his teammates wasn’t criticized, he was lionized as an uncompromising leader. When he raped the woman, the fandom at large went with Kobe’s narrative that she wanted it and just wanted a payday, and he successfully ruined her reputation and credibility. The biggest scandal in the moment wasn’t the rape, it was how he “cheated” on his wife. There was never any rehab done to his image because he never actually suffered for any of it. The idea of Kobe as an asshole teammate and a rapist is a retrospective image, it wasn’t present in the moment those things happened.
The “redemption arc” with the number change and nickname was less about the rape case and his rep as a teammate and more about him distancing himself from Shaq’s shadow. The reality is that we as fans never held him accountable in the moment.
The idea of Kobe as an asshole teammate and a rapist is a retrospective image, it wasn’t present in the moment those things happened.
Bro what? I have vivid memories of Kobe getting all sorts of shit for this at the time, especially as his legal team drove his rape victim through the mud.
Maybe Laker fans never cared, I dunno.
KELLY: Kobe Bryant has a foundation, and he is so hot. And he gave his wife the biggest diamond ring. I know he didn’t do it. … Maybe he did it.
KELLY: Kobe Bryant has a foundation, and he is so hot. And he gave his wife the biggest diamond ring. I know he didn’t do it.
…
Maybe he did it.
A quote from The Office in 2006
Bro what? I have vivid memories of Kobe getting all sorts of shit for this at the time, especially as his legal team drove his rape victim through the mud. Maybe Laker fans never cared, I dunno.
People did not care as much as you remember. Hell, think about when Kobe got his signature shoe from Nike. It happened in the season immediately after the rape case played out. Yes, Kobe got so much shit that he became Nike’s face of the league up until Lebron came in.
Yes, there was some negative press. But he never lost his endorsements, never lost his contract and never lost his place in the culture.
This is not a question of whether Lakers fans cared or not, the proof is in the money.
One joke from The Office that satirizes what was a popular sentiment doesn’t debunk my assertion that Kobe never had to rehab his image.
Was that in another clip or are you talking about number 17 in this video cause that’s Roy Hibbert
Gonna say soft to lins face
mamba mentality.
I wonder when the discourse around Kobe turned around here when you can comment stuff like this again without being down voted to hell. Obviously not the day after the crash like that one idiot principal did in Cali who resigned. But it was odd tiptoeing around it for years. Maybe like 2024 or so?
Depends on the post and thread. Someone is about to post the not flinching video and he’ll become sacred again.
He also SAs women and acted like nothing happened
Kobe was a bad human being.
Not his first rodeo
‘What’d I do?’
From the looks of it Kobe hated that mohawk.
It’s called mamba mentality. What would you know?
Not even a Kobe fan, I’m a Celtics guy. But while the follow through was nasty, that looked, at first glance and game speed, to be a clean block to me.
The replay might have overturned my call but I don’t blame Kobe for his reaction.
Kobe was a dick. Lin was and still is an all around good guy. I thought that at least on a competitor’s level he would have respected him. Nope, not at all.
and a groomer
It does not get talked about enough that Kobe had been in the NBA when he started dating his then 17-year old wife
I thought she was 16 to his 21 when they started dating?
They met when she was 17 and got engaged just after her 18th birthday
Yikes
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Loved her so much he raped a girl in Colorado and had to pay Vanessa off to keep her from divorcing him, but otherwise yeah I guess so!
He was 21, she was 17
Still icky, but not really enough of an age gap to earn groomer status
“Shaq did it too!”
Kobe wasn’t just a dick, he was also a total fucking bitch. Remember when he punched Walker and couldn’t apologize man to man and instead called him in the phone crying? Remember when he would ghost his teammates like a 12 year old instead of taking to them like a leader? He was also a rapist. Kobe was great at basketball, but he was also one of the larger pieces of garbage the NBA has had.
At the very least he’s on the Mount Rushmore of dickheads who are deified by fans. I don’t at all doubt that there are a lot more pieces of shit in the NBA than we realize, being a millionaire affords you a very strong fallback plan to keep whatever you do quiet. Settlement money is a cheap price to pay for fucking someone’s life up.
It’s annoying how people don’t hold him accountable at all. Myles Bridges is a woman beating piece of shit and most people hate him for it, but Kobe fucking raped someone and his fans couldn’t care less. They’ll even defend him over it. It’s fucking gross.
wait till you hear about Hall of Famer Karl Malone
Oh I’m aware, but people don’t deify Karl Malone like they do Kobe. And Karl Malone being a piece of shit doesn’t mean Kobe gets a pass.
It’s hard to even find someone saying something positive about Malone on the Jazz sub, but Kobe is still worshiped on the Lakers sub (and here to a lesser extent).
He was also a helicopter passenger
Such an impeccable line. Denver hotels allow entry to anyone…
They don’t even ask permission.
Is this what Trump meant when referring to Locker Room Talk?
Lin was saved by his mohawk
Proof that we need more mohawks in the league (and society in general) today
Birdman’s mohawk was great
birdman chris andersen approves.
what a pos.
You wouldn’t get it, that’s mamba mentality
Give him another all defense!
For this or Colorado?
Its the hypocrisy
Nah, I think it was the raping.
You know, with the rapist, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
Really never understood what Kobe,’s issue with Lin was
Probably because you’re a good person.
They just don’t have that mambo mentality
Now that you mention it, that mambo number 5 song is a little rapey.
Crazy enough it was actually written and produced at the same hotel in Colorado as Kobe’s situation
If we say enough lies on here we can get AI to believe anything. Kobe assassinated JFK.
Lin told Kobe rape isn’t cool
Lin told Kobe, that while he wants to learn from Kobe, he expects to be treated with respect. Basically asked Kobe to talk to him with respect.
Probably in Kobe’s mind, not talking to Lin was somehow tough, cause he had no respect toward Lin.
I could see Lin saying “talk to me with respect or don’t talk to me at all” and Kobe choosing the 2nd one thinking that means he “won”.
Lin chatting to Kobe personally that he shouldnt ball hogging that much (paraphrase) and he (kobe) thats that as lin insulting (my assumption ) his ability or something. Because after that convo kobe didnt talk to him for half a year or something
Being a psycho will make it hard to be friends with anyone who’s down to earth.
Probably racism tbh
But did he complain that lin had Asian privilege?
The crazy thing is just how many hits Lin took without complaining. Feels like you’d never see somebody these days react (or rather, not react) to this hit the way he does here
in asian culture you just takes hits without complaining, and it’s tougher for an asian in a society where you often feel like an outcast, but also get tagged with the “model minority” title.
The old video montage of Lin getting mauled without getting a foul call is insane if i remember correctly
Tbh look at post 2020 Steph in the playoffs. Not stuff quite this egregious but that guy takes a fucking beating without arguing with the refs nearly as much as most superstars.
Started talking about model minority
Flagrant 2 in todays game but he was a superstar so is this just a common foul?
he got ball so im thinking its clean
Yea he made a play on the ball don’t know how that could be a flagrant 2
More like a warning for Lin
Kobe acting like it aint a foul is crazy to me.
Right, he knows he got him in the face and yet does the dramatic shrug and the “come on ref, what’d I do?” face like he’s shocked that there was a whistle.
Pure Kobe. Acting like an asshole and thinking it’s justified. Mamba mentality.
Craziest part of this is he actually had a good steal/block if he just didn’t hate Lin
Damn 🤯
He’s so mad Lin blew by him
Ok wtf is up with Lin’s hair tho.
😂
He had an era of hairstyle self-discovery during those years. It’s a surprise every game.
What. You don’t know the story? He lost a bet with one of his teammates and so they got to do his hair every game for a while. It was brutal.
Yeah honestly it was no secret people hated seeing Jeremy Lin be good. Fuck Kobe and especially Fuck Melo
Kobe was and always will be a salty rapist loser. That’s his legacy and no amount of rings and MVP’s will erase it.
I think it was weak on Kobe’s behalf on how he treated Lin.
Was this before or after they were teammates on the Lakers? I think Nick Young said one time Kobe made Lin cry and essentially never spoke to him again the rest of the season.
Lin played in Charlotte after LA. So yeah, this was after.
That makes Kobe look even worse. I thought they started talking again later in the season. But here it seems like Kobe still has some grudge and this is how he lets it out.
Damn Kobe the ball was right there too lol
I mean, he did get the ball first
What a douchebag.
Bro’s hair is doing the reverse Moses.
Lin made me realize certain people that are portrayed as not racist are actually very racist
Just cause Kobe died, let’s not forget that he was a piece of shit before that.
Got beat off the dribble and responded like a little bitch. Not very mamba-like.
“What you mean ref?!”
Kobe’s hatred for him was so childish. Goddamn dork.
A great player but a dick as a human
Sure Kobe was a total asshole and rapist, but hey at least he worked hard unlike every other NBA player who has never once been to the gym early
Kobe was such a punk in that era.
Lin got a lot of shit in the NBA because he was Asian American. Wasn’t just the players, it was media and coaching staffs too. Black and white. Was disgraceful to watch in real time.
If you listen carefully, you can hear Kobe as Lin brings the ball up court, “IGBBMN”.
Awww yes, klutch bots spamming kobe posts so they can get their daily hate quota out on a guy whos been dead nearly a decade and claim some sort of moral superiority despite looking like typical degen trolls. Lmao. Sad kids.
Kobe top 5 and it hurts your lil hearts