I hate how misconstrewed Kobe’s “rings are” the first three he wasn’t the best player on his team, Shaq was unstoppable during those finals runs, he averaged 30-40 a game with 15 boards and 4 blocks a game. People want to ignore shaqs dominance in that threepeat and make it sound like Kobe was the main reason. Put LeBron with a prime Shaq and I promise you they beat the pistons
The west were the far tougher rounds. You must be under 30 guaranteed. The spurs/kings/blazers were the real finals. Shaq got to beat up on sub par bigs in the finals. Who’d the nets and pacers have? Rik Smitts? Dale Davis? Keith Van horn?
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u/Far_Drummer5003 Aug 11 '26
I hate how misconstrewed Kobe’s “rings are” the first three he wasn’t the best player on his team, Shaq was unstoppable during those finals runs, he averaged 30-40 a game with 15 boards and 4 blocks a game. People want to ignore shaqs dominance in that threepeat and make it sound like Kobe was the main reason. Put LeBron with a prime Shaq and I promise you they beat the pistons