Free Darko Makes No Sense

Let me get this straight. KG is somehow less than Kobe because he STAYED with his hopeless team far longer than anyone could have expected, played through injuries, never made a public trade demand and was an all around solid citizen?

Kobe meanwhile: Routinely called out his coach & teammates in the Press, lobbied for his Championship co-star to be shipped out of town, flirted with rape charges, then publicly demanded to be traded and/or his teammates to be traded.

Sorry, whatever lack of team success KG has had in the past isn’t a reflection on his talent or his ability. The guy shows up to work every minute of every game.

Meanwhile Kobe, while incredibly talented, has spent a good part of his career complaining about his teammates, coaches, GM’s and his ‘touches’.

riiigggghhhttt. cause that youtube video where kobe attempted to destroy a 20 year old kids confidence and get himself traded for being a bad teammate was the classy way to go.

never mind holding the lakers hostage in the media, assuring that if LA had traded him, they would have gotten about .20$ on the dollar since it was open knowledge kobe wanted out.

and im sure if the lakers somehow scrub out in the first round, kobe will take responsibility, then sit back and help his team get better over the summer, and not demand a trade, we all know he’s a class act.

please.

I found this article earlier via the Yahoo NBA Blog… and needless to say… I really have no comment that can stay within the CelticsBlog language parameters… so I’m just going to stay quiet and know to myself that articles like this prove the believe among some that blogs have tarnished credible journalism.

It’s called deductive reasoning: You start with an assertion and then look for evidence/arguments to support you assertion. Inductive reasoning is where you look at facts, arguments, etc and arrive at a conclusion.

This guy started with an assertion: I hate Boston, the Celtics, everything Boston Celtics therefore here’s how I’m going to prove why I hate it. It’s pretty sad to see people like this get attention in any form. The best thing to do is not read them, click on their website, etc. I’ve stopped with Bill Simmons reading. I used to love the guy, but his personal attacks on Doc Rivers and Ainge got to be too personal and too much. Now I refuse to read anything the guy writes.

That’s ridiculous…Shoals is a pretentious ****. I personally never liked Free Darko, and I hate it now. What a ridiculous premise for an article.

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I’ve always found Free Darko over-rated and not all that interesting so this comes as no suprise to me. Kobe really played the good soldier by demanding a trade and then rejecting any trade close to fair that wouldn’t have left him on a stacked squad…what a guy.

he’s always hated Boston. Anytime he has talked about this deal, he’s made it a point to say that it has nothing to do with Boston, the Celtics, and that we just got lucky. He’s always been vastly overrated for his writing ability and ability to use google image search.

The post didn’t bother me. I think the issue has less to do with the concrete reasons behind the trade and more with Shoals reconciling KG’s image with Boston. Whether we like it or not, Boston is iconic in the basketball world and the ‘revolutionary stripes’ KG developed in Minnesota seemed to clash with the traditional form the Celtics represent.

I read this guys stuff periodically on AOL Fanhouse. From my very first readings of his posts, he clearly had a negative take on everything Celtics, especially his evaluation of the team the Celtics were putting together last offseason. He doesn’t impress me in his comments or insights at all and the anti-Celtic prism he looks through is is distorted, off-target and irritating to me.