Are you serious? If he would’ve told that reporter “No comment”, you and a hundred other LeBron haters woud’ve been calling him a conceited jerk. The man can’t win with some of you people.

And at least he’s not like Kobe and throwing a new teammate under the bus every week. There was nothing wrong with what he said. Kobe is a scorer and that’s it. 5 game stretches do not change 17 years of being a volume scorer.

So sad how some people still refuse to accept the indisputable evidence staring them right in the face. LeBron’s a MUCH more efficient scorer than Kobe… while also being a far superior defender, passer, and rebounder than Kobe.

Kobe’s greatest attribute is his scoring ability. Now consider this fact: he has NEVER shot 47% from the field in a single season in his entire career. LeBron? He has shot above 47% EVERY YEAR of his career since his 2nd season!

But LeBron shouldn’t talk because Kobe’s older? Um, right.

Still, it is not new that in some games Bryant does look to get others involved before getting too awfully jack happy; it’s been true for years, just not consistently. And last night he had 8 assists versus 15 shots.

Right now the problem for the Lakers is that Nash and Gasol are not enough to keep the ball moving around to the open man. Before they had the triangle. Unfortunately, they fired their last coach before they could see if that whole Princeton thing would pan out. Either way, bottom line is that ball-movement prevails more often than isolation.

So far this season, when the Lakers as a team have more assists than Bryant does shot attempts they are 19-9. And when he takes as many or more shots than his team has assists the are 5-18, and, interestingly, three of those five wins were when the opposing team’s player did the same, in one case two of the opposing teams’ players (Kemba Walker, J.R. Smith, Carmelo Anthony, Brook Lopez).

So, in essence, the Lakers can win with Bryant taking a ridiculous amount of shots as long as someone on the other team does the same thing.

I’m not blaming Bryant, I’m sure those tendencies prevail across the board, ie. the more assists a team has, the higher the FG%.