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Quinn Cook Asks Why Kobe Bryant’s Lakers Aren’t Talked About As Much As The Showtime Lakers: “They Won 5 Championships With Kobe Just Like They Did With Magic And Kareem!”

Gautam Varier
Sep 4, 2022
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Kobe Bryant is undoubtedly one of the greatest Lakers of all time and some might argue he is the greatest. Bryant spent the entirety of his 20 seasons in the NBA with the Lakers, during which he won 5 titles and became their all-time leading scorer with 33,643 points.

Bryant would win 3 of those titles while playing alongside Shaquille O’Neal as the Lakers three-peated from 2000 to 2002 and he showed he could get the job done by himself as well after Shaq departed, as he led them to back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010. Despite all the success they had, Kobe’s Lakers aren’t remembered or talked about as much as some other successful iterations of the team from the past.


Quinn Cook Asked Why Kobe’s Lakers Aren’t Talked About As Much As The Showtime Lakers

Quinn Cook knows a thing or two about the Lakers, having played for them for two seasons and he also won a title with the team in 2020. He recently took to Twitter to pose what he called a “real basketball question” as he wondered why Kobe’s Lakers aren’t as publicized as the Showtime Lakers even though both won 5 championships.

Real basketball question: why aren’t Kobe’s Lakers as publicized and talked about like or as much as the Showtime Lakers in the 80s?!? They won 5 championships with Kobe just like they did with Magic and Kareem! Thoughts?

— Quinn Cook (@QCook323) September 3, 2022

There are few teams in NBA history that get talked about as much as the Showtime Lakers, and it is not all down to the championships they won. Did that have a big role in it? Of course, it did, but it was also the way they played, which changed the game and the culture. There was also that epic rivalry with the Celtics, which elevated both of those teams to an even higher pedestal.

Kobe’s Lakers can also be divided into two parts, the first one with Shaq and the other one without him. If the two had stuck together for a longer period of time and had prolonged success, then they would have been held in higher regard, but it wasn’t to be. They still get talked about a lot though for three-peating, which is something that the Showtime Lakers never did.

It is just that when it comes to comparing Showtime to Kobe’s Lakers; you are talking about two almost completely different teams when it comes to the latter, so it isn’t really a correct comparison. Even if “his Lakers” so as to say, aren’t mentioned in the same rarefied air as the Showtime Lakers, Kobe is mentioned alongside the greats of the game, with Shaq also recently stating that there is no one like Bryant in the NBA today and that he is the closest to Michael Jordan. 

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Gautam Varier is a staff writer and columnist for Fadeaway World from Mumbai, India. He graduated from Symbiosis International University with a Master of Business specializing in Sports Management in 2020. This educational achievement enables Gautam to apply sophisticated analytical techniques to his incisive coverage of basketball, blending business acumen with sports knowledge.Before joining Fadeaway World in 2022, Gautam honed his journalistic skills at Sportskeeda and SportsKPI, where he covered a range of sports topics with an emphasis on basketball. His passion for the sport was ignited after witnessing the high-octane offense of the Steve Nash-led Phoenix Suns. Among the Suns, Shawn Marion stood out to Gautam as an all-time underrated NBA player. Marion’s versatility as a defender and his rebounding prowess, despite being just 6’7”, impressed Gautam immensely. He admired Marion’s finishing ability at the rim and his shooting, despite an unconventional jump shot, believing that Marion’s skill set would have been even more appreciated in today’s NBA.This transformative experience not only deepened his love for basketball but also shaped his approach to sports writing, enabling him to connect with readers through vivid storytelling and insightful analysis.
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