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IMO it’s less iconic when a player changes teams. Jordan 45 and Kobe 24 were iconic because it was with the same team.
Yea Kobe changing his number to escape criticism from raping a woman is so commendable. Nothing says iconic like changing numbers to make ppl forget you’re a rapist.
Step back for a second and ask yourself if that really makes any sense at all…
Does it make sense TO ME to change numbers to avoid negative publicity for a rape case? No, not really.
Is that exactly what Kobe did? Yes.
Being aggressively misinformed <<<<<
Kobe Bryant’s rape allegation and subsequent court proceedings happened during the 2003-2004 season. Bryant changed from number 8 to number 24, a number he wore in high school, before the 2006-2007 season. A season that followed a 2005-2006 season where Kobe Bryant had several historically great individual performances, but ultimately left him and the Lakers out of the playoffs.
2003-2006 was a period where the Lakers were upset by the Detroit Pistons, Shaquille O’Neal left the Lakers organization (thought to be Kobe’s doing), as well as the departure and eventual return of championship coach, Phil Jackson, who had published “The Final Season,” in 2004, in which Jackson did Kobe no favors.
Kobe was a winner and used to winning, and all of the sudden, he wasn’t. Kobe was probably at fault for much of the turmoil surrounding him during this period. Maybe it stemmed from the rape allegation and legal process. But to say that he changed his number three years later to distract from the allegations is asinine and doesn’t make sense upon the slightest bit of actual reflection.
Do you know what his Mambe mentality was born out of & when it was coined?