Sixers 2007 Off Season Thread

[SD_Eagle5]

not me, in fact, he could hit a 3 pointer to win the NBA championship and I'd boo. farg him.

[SD_Eagle5]

Ding.  Beat me to it, Mo.

The Kobe hate is ridiculous in this forum.  The guy is one of the top-five players in the league and he would instantly make that laughingstock of a franchise an immediate playoff contender in the East.

But sure, he sucks and no one wants him there.

Your opinion on this subject is void Magic fan.

I'd cheer for his wife:

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

not me, in fact, he could hit a 3 pointer to win the NBA championship and I'd boo. farg him.

I don't even care that much about basketball, and I think this is ridiculous.

[The BIGSTUD]

not me, in fact, he could hit a 3 pointer to win the NBA championship and I'd boo. farg him.

Right on.

I could never cheer for that loser ever. I'd be ecstatic that the Sixers won the title, but wouldn't credit Kobe in any way shape or form.

[rjs246]

Terrell Owens.

[SunMo]

Tommy McDonald!

[Rome]

Ding.  Beat me to it, Mo.

The Kobe hate is ridiculous in this forum.  The guy is one of the top-five players in the league and he would instantly make that laughingstock of a franchise an immediate playoff contender in the East.

But sure, he sucks and no one wants him there.

Your opinion on this subject is void Magic fan.

I'd cheer for his wife:

You're in agreement with King Cole.

I win.

PS: I'd bark at her Cheerio any farging day. 

[PhillyPhanInDC]

That'd be sweet. He could just drive to his old stomping grounds in Lower Merion and rape bitches.

Kobe Returns A Hero To Lower Merion High School
(AP) ARDMORE, Pa. Even in the stuffed halls of his former high school, where he is fervently pursued by wide-eyed students with pens and cell phone cameras in hand, Kobe Bryant can feel at ease.

At Lower Merion High School, Bryant is not the former accused rapist with a tarnished public image, the player who ran off Shaq, or even a "HOMETOWN ZERO" -- which the Philadelphia Daily News blasted over his photo on the back page of Friday's paper.

No, here, Kobe Bryant is nothing but a hero. Kobe Bryant is home.

"He's my idol," said Tobi Ajirotutu, an 11th grade junior varsity basketball player.

"This is pretty special," added varsity team captain Adam Ellison.

Bryant is still the most popular guy around at Lower Merion High, in the Philadelphia suburbs, and his trip back on Friday before the Lakers played the 76ers sent the student population into a frenzy not unlike when he led the 1996 basketball team to a state championship.

"It brings me back to where it all began, before everything got started," Bryant said.

The Los Angeles Lakers star took softball questions, flashed a warm smile during a pep talk and visited with old teachers when he wasn't tailed by a growing mob of students astonished that the All-Star had dropped by just to say hello and "smell the gym."

One message he wanted to get across: Philly and Lower Merion is always in his heart.

"It's always been there," Bryant said. "Since I've been playing in the NBA, I always come back. Always. I'll never forget what the school has done for me, what the city has done for me."

While the students love him, the relationship between Philly fans and Bryant has been strained ever since the 2001 NBA finals against the Sixers when he said he was "coming to Philly to cut their hearts out." That began an unforgiving attitude from the often-brutal, always-booing Sixers fanatics that's lasted to this day.

When commissioner David Stern presented Bryant with the All-Star game MVP trophy in 2002 in Philadelphia, the boos were long and loud and he later said he was hurt. Bryant's been booed ever since and expected a similar response Friday night.

"I don't think that's ever going to fully change," said Bryant's high school coach, Gregg Downer. "I do know that if he played for the Sixers, he'd be worshipped."
Bryant walked from the band room to another part of the school, then a classroom and eventually the boys' locker room, where he gave the varsity team a private talk. He may as well have been handing out the answer key to the SAT, some lifetime hall passes and iPods the way the students swarmed him, screaming "We love you, Kobe!"

"What's up, y'all? Aren't you supposed to be in class right now?" he told a large group.

Bryant, who spent eight years of his childhood in Italy before returning to go to high school, joked he wasn't exactly a model student.

"I didn't take any notes, which got me in trouble quite often, but I was pretty good at remembering things," Bryant said.

[SD_Eagle5]

Terrell Owens.

Yup.

LA - who I hate - stood by him through the rape scandal and traded away Shaq to make him happy. He rewards them by asking to be traded which is nothing more than a ploy for attention. He's not that good, I don't consider him a top 5 player, and his selfisness on the court would rival Iverson's, it would only be a matter of time before he pulled the same shtein. farg him.

[Rome]

He's not a top five player in the NBA?

LOL - that comment was King Colerrific.

Stop.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

You guys would all embrace Bryantsy if he came to Philly all apologetic and won a title.

Stop pretending you have scruples.

[SD_Eagle5]

You're in agreement with King Cole.

I win.

PS: I'd bark at her Cheerio any farging day. 

sun shines on a dogs ass every now and then

I always thought she was very underrated.

[SunMo]

it's Kobers

[The BIGSTUD]

Kobe without Shaq is a farging nobody.

He's not even a top 50 player in the NBA right now.

[Sgt PSN]

Terrell Owens.

Yup.

LA - who I hate - stood by him through the rape scandal and traded away Shaq to make him happy. He rewards them by asking to be traded which is nothing more than a ploy for attention. He's not that good, I don't consider him a top 5 player, and his selfisness on the court would rival Iverson's, it would only be a matter of time before he pulled the same shtein. farg him.

Take it for what it's worth, but Shaq publicly said about a week or 2 ago that he never felt that Kobe was the reason he got traded.  He said it was strictly a business decision by the Lakers to move him.  

Like him or hate him, Kobe is a top 5 player in the league.  Top 3 imo and possibly the best all around player on the court right now.  The latter being subject to argument and debate.