Hello everyone, it's Blake welcome back to another video. This is 8. More reasons why Kobe Bryant is greater than LeBron James. This is my part 2 of this series. By the way thanks for all the reasons support I truly appreciate it, I will try to be more active with videos. Big shout out to you all who subscribed we just hit 200 subs it means a lot. But enough with all the chit chat. Reason number 1. I've heard some LeBron fans say that LeBron's accolades are so much better than Kobe's. But now that we really look into it, it doesn't seem like his accolades are so much better. Or even better at all law, but you can see within 20 seasons they both made 18 All Star teams. Kobe has four All Star MVPs while LeBron has three. Kobe is a 5 time NBA champion. LeBron is a 4 time NBA champion. Kobe never left to create a super team. Oops I meant to say Kobe is a 2 time scoring champion. While LeBron is a 1 time scoring champ. Kobe has two finals MVPs, compared to LeBron having four finals MVPs. Kobe has made 12 NBA all defensive teams, compared to LeBron only making half in 20 seasons he made six. Kobe has made 15 All NBA teams. And LeBron made 18. They both made the All Rookie team. Both made the 75th anniversary team. Kobe has 28 All League selections compared to LeBron having 25. Kobe has one MVP compared to LeBron's four. And to anyone who is younger and didn't get to actually watch Kobe in his prime maybe go back watch some because if you know you know Kobe deserved at least three or four. Like look at these stats. Tell me Nash deserved that MVP. Ha ha. Won't even show the other year's stats. That's for another day. But let's not act like LeBron's first two most valuable player awards he admitted both years that Kobe is the best player in the league. Ha ha here's the clips. This is the best player in the NBA. Kobe Bryant. Better than you. I will have to say right now. He's a really really good player. Individibly he has some of the best skills that the NBA has ever seen in history. And he's shown year after year after year why he continues to be one of the best players in all the league. I'm getting better though. Well like I've been quoted in the past and I will continue to be quoted I think he's the best player in our league right now. What he's able to do offensively and defensively is I mean it's unbelievable and I'll look up to a guy like Kobe Bryant just because of what he's able to do every night. He goes out on the basketball court. So once again I'm quoting again saying that Kobe Bryant is the best player in our league. That's funny. Ha well there you have Kobe has better accolades if you ask me. Reason number two Kobe had a 52% field goal percentage while LeBron guarded him while LeBron shot for 27% from the field while Kobe guarded him wonder what excuse someone could make for that. And what do you think is more impressive that Kobe's defense was good enough to have LeBron's field goal percentage cut in half or Kobe's offensive bag being so good to shoot at 52% on LeBron James. You tell me reason number three in 2004 LeBron was on the team USA basketball team and Athens for the Olympic Games and they shocked the world coming in only third place and getting a bronze medal in 2006 LeBron and team USA in the FIBA World Championship came in third place again while winning themselves another bronze medal. So team USA had enough of it. They wanted to win the gold. So yeah they add Kobe Bryant to the roster and in the 2008 Olympics. LeBron Kobe and the rest of team USA finally win a gold medal. Been four years later the Kobe led 2012 FIBA team USA team win yet another goal. Maybe all they needed the whole time was the bean. By the way on those teams Kobe was picked to be the captain not LeBron. And an international play LeBron averages 11.4 points per game while Kobe averages 13.6 reason number four. LeBron fans say he is a better passer because he has Morissus per game. As if LeBron doesn't play point forward and Kobe played majority of his career in the triangle offense where he even averaged Morissus than his starting point guards most of the time. But for anyone who didn't know Kobe in his last actual great season of 2012 to 2013 before he ruptured his Achilles on the same leg he already had three prior knee surgeries on. But there was a stretch of games in the 2012 to 13 season where he wanted to prove he could focus on passing and played point guard. He demonstrated his underrated passing ability and vision. In game one Lakers versus Jazz January 25th 2013. It was Kobe's first game at the point he put up 14 points, 14 assists and nine rebounds with 10 shots and zero free throws. He was one rebound away from a triple double. He played a completely different style of play sort of like Rajan Rondo or Magic Johnson. The Lakers won that game and onto game number two two days later Lakers versus Thunder he scored 21 points with 14 assists and nine rebounds. One rebound shy from a triple double again. While winning over the Russell Westbrook Kevin Durant James Harden led Thunder. Now the third and final game two days after that the Lakers versus Hornets Kobe had 14 points with 11 assists and eight rebounds while securing another win while playing the point. And after the final game Kobe was asked if he enjoyed playing point guard and what would it be like if he focused on being a one guard. This was his response. This is enjoyable doing what you do now we're scoring a second. Yeah because you've seen everybody else gain confidence from it and play low off of it. So first and foremost that's really what I'd enjoy and then no second because most of you guys thought I couldn't do it. So that's pretty fun. Is this something that you could grow you could perhaps to love as much as scoring? I can do it man like Neil on this mark. I know you can do it that's not the question. Is this something that you're starting to feel passionately about doing or just something you're enjoying? Yeah yeah yeah yeah. I enjoyed doing it like I prepare you know I prepare for each game. I was to teach clear where defense is going to become a problem. I don't put guys on the right place to be successful. I was magic growing up man. I just it's a habit not grow to six nine. After that I said realize it will be six nine minutes. It was the end of that dream. You had really wanted it. How good a point guard do you think you could have ended up? Is that something you think you could have done? Would you think I'm the serious? I would be the best. Okay. What do you think of strengths? Really good. I mean is that I mean is that who was just saying that? That's what it was about when I'm focusing on something I become obsessed about it. I'm going to be perfect at it. That's just my personality. So if I was to be a point guy that's just obsessed over it. Now on to reason number five. LaBron fans hype up LaBron's passing ability but don't want to bring up the fact LaBron has had the most turnovers in history since 2019 and currently has 4,881 turnovers. While 2,714 of which were bad past turnovers. In comparison Kobe has 1,800 bad past turnovers. Also LaBron has a higher turnover percentage than mostly all of the other goats at 13.1%. So yes he can get assists. But you can't forget he averages 3.7 turnovers in the playoffs while Kobe averages a bit less with 2.9. And LaBron's game high for turnovers in the playoffs was 10 and Kobe's highest was 7. Still bad but 10 is just insane. Okay now on to reason number six. Kobe is a better shooter. Not only does Kobe have a way bigger bag with post ups, post fades, isolations and so on. But people bring up LaBron having a better field goal percentage. As if majority of his points don't come from the paint and that's the same reason why most forwards and centers have a higher field goal percentage than guards. But as you can see Kobe shot 43.7% from 3 to 10 feet while LaBron shot 42.3%. Kobe shot 43% from 10 to 16 feet with LaBron shooting 36.8%. And Kobe 40.2% from 16 feet to the 3 point line which is deep mid-range with LaBron shooting 38.7%. And that is counting Kobe's last three years which were after he ruptured his Achilles so really Kobe shot even better as you can see. I mean most people know LaBron's free throw game is terrible shooting 73.4 while Kobe shoots 84. For those who don't know free throws proves and means a lot on your shooting ability it's literally a free shot with just you in front of the hoop. And yellow Brown has already proved to shoot below average for a small forward. Just please stop using the non-intelligent argument saying his field goal percent is better so therefore he is more efficient. Law that's not how it works. He drives in the lane in the soft NBA era where there is no physicality allowed. Therefore you can see LaBron flopping everyone to two minutes to try and draw a foul. Now onto reason number seven. LaBron got swept in the finals twice while you probably already know Kobe and Jordan never have. I mean Jordan has never even gone to a game seven. And LaBron losing six finals just goes to show how much more competition was in the Western conference throughout his career which goes to show you why and how he made it to 10 finals as if that means a lot while he was in the East. And yes after LaBron's first he got swept by the Tim Duncan Led Spurs. What does he think to do? Oh he jumps ship and goes to the Miami Heat to start the trend of teaming up with the other top players in the league but even there with D Wade and Bosch. They lost a Dirk in the maps. For anyone who didn't know LaBron had one of the biggest chokes in finals history ending up being his team's third leading score. Yeah I don't think LaBron had much fun playing them. Now finally number eight this is the first non-provable but still obvious point I've made so far. But it's his IQ, his mindset and his mentality. The Mamba mentality it is the drive to want to win and compete at all costs even through pain, injuries and other setbacks. Kobe would be in the gym day and night perfecting the game of basketball. As most of you heard all the legendary stories on Kobe working out a crazy amount to be one step ahead of the rest. So yes reason number eight is his mentality and basketball IQ. And this is the end of the video hopfully you learned a few things or just realized once again how good Kobe actually was. And most importantly realizing LaBron is not the only person in the goat conversation. You LaBron fanboys are a bit delusional overhyping a dude who won four chips. Let me know if you'd like to see a part three or let me know what you think about the video. Have a good day a good week and hopefully life. Rest in harmony Kobe being Bryant his daughter Gigi and the rest of the passengers. Goodbye hope to see you again soon.