Commentary
I have a subscription to Complex magazine, and the most recent issue has Kobe Bryant on the cover. I’ve hated Kobe Bryant for at least ten years and seeing his smug face on the cover of a magazine that I own is disturbing to me. This made me think of the top five players I hate in the NBA.
5. Kendrick Perkins, Boston Celtics
Perkins is a goon. He’s way too intense during games and he thinks he is better than what he really is. He must have forgotten that he has three legitimate Hall of Famers on his team. Plus, he looks like an ugly version of Bill Cosby, post-Jell-O pudding.
4. Deshawn Stevenson, Washington Wizards
Another player who thinks his talents outweigh his ego. It doesn’t help that he said LeBron James is “overrated,” being that LeBron is my favorite basketball player.
He also had the nerve to give rapper Soulja Boy Tell-Em tickets to the Wizards first-round playoff games against the Cleveland Cavaliers last year after LeBron compared Stevenson to the mediocre rapper. To make matters worse, Jay-Z dissed him in a freestyle.
3. Carlos Boozer, Utah Jazz
I’ve been a Cavs fan since LeBron came into the league and my favorite players from the Cavs were LeBron, Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Boozer. So, when he left the Cavs for the Utah Jazz, after promising Cavs management that he was going to re-sign with them, Boozer died in my eyes.
What really upsets me is that I believe if we still had Boozer the Cavs would’ve won a NBA championship by now. The one thing I can say about Boozer is that Karma has punished him to nth degree. In his first two seasons with the Utah Jazz he played in only 84 games and has only played in 12 games this season. As a great man once said, “I hope all the bad things happen to you and only you.”
2. Kobe Bryant
I’ve hated Kobe for a very long time and, honestly, I can’t remember why I started hating him. But I can tell you why I will continue to hate him.
Kobe isn’t a real human being. I’m not saying he’s Terminator or E.T. but he doesn’t know how to show genuine human emotion. I think that all of his relationships outside of basketball are contrived. He doesn’t have an identity so he looks at his peers and imitates there actions to seem more human. For example, watch the interview he did with LeBron James prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics and tell me with a straight face that he seemed natural.
I didn’t think you could.
1. Joseph Washington “Jellybean” Bryant (Retired NBA Player)
Who could I hate more than Kobe Bryant?
The man that had a hand in his creation, that’s who.