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Originally Posted by Rentaponcho
laker fan first, but i know people who would stop pulling for the lakers if kobe left, and would follow whatever team kobe went too.
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CL and LG would go out of business. I am a huge fan of Kobe Bryant, but it's not even close. I am a Lakers fan and I still haven't forgotten taking a bunch of **** for calling Kobe out this summer. I think the reason so many people appear to love Kobe more than the Lakers is the fact that we had to seemingly stick up for him everyday since the Shaq trade, and most of the time we ended up being right. This blind hatred makes it almost habit to rush to Kobe's aid regardless of how wrong he is. Now you have blind haters and lovers. It is tough to be level-headed as a sports fan, specifically the Lakers. What scared me if that Kobe had almost gotten to the point where he was immune to criticism. That's a scary point for an athlete to get to for the fans. You have guys like Shaq who feel like they can show up fat and heal on company time because his past achievements state that he has a free pass for life. Granted, we know that Kobe will never loaf on us or anything like that, but you never know what he may feel that he has a free pass to do.
Say Kobe were traded? I would still be a diehard Lakers fan. I probably would not have booed Kobe for the fear of pissing him off.