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**Official Thank You Kobe Bryant from Jazzfanz Thread***

ghsartin said:
Well... I think you should really work on your textual criticism. I just put Bryant's career in perspective. I actually think Bryant had a great career and was a great overachiever. He just wasn't the basketball god that the NBA propaganda machine made people believe that he was. He was the face of the league for a few years, but simply wasn't really dominant or even near dominant. As far as the personal stuff, I started following the NBA in the early 90s, so I was able to follow both Jordan's and Bryant's careers, as you did. If you can allege having a long term perspective, I can too. Besides, my PhD in History probably makes putting things in perspective a little easier for me, although I really don't know your background or formation. Regarding myself being "mistaken for an intellectual", as you put it, people actually take me as an intellectual. After all, Portuguese is my native tongue but I've been published in Italian and I'm obviously fluent in English. But not only in English, of course! In Spanish also. And I can read some Catalan and French, besides a bit of Romanian and Ancient Greek. I'm also a published Latin translator and editor of Medieval Latin manuscripts. I taught Ancient History, Medieval History, Latin and African History at the university level. But then, again, I don't know your personal intellectual accomplishments. Perhaps you are an accomplished intellectual yourself! I know I am! And I'm quite proud of it, TBH. Regarding my alleged lack of respect for the dead, my mother passed away last year, but, for almost a year, I stopped working so I could be with her. It was not by chance that I said that death was a serious matter. To me, it is. You, on the other hand, seem somewhat caught in the media machine that glorifies celebrities, especially the dead ones, if I can be frank. But I can be wrong about you, of course! This doesn't change the fact that Bryant had the third highest usage rate ever while shooting bellow NBA average through his career. He was indeed a ballhog. He overachieved, he had a great career but was a ballhog. Finally, I let you with my best regards and express my genuine hope that you recover your mental balance after the initial shock of Bryant's dead has finally passed. Be well!
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We're so proud of your accomplishments, and you mother must be just as proud. I had no idea that someone like yourself (who is published in as many languages) uses abbreviations like "TBH" and misspells "ballhog twice and forgets the comma between 90's. Normally I wouldn't care, or pay any attention. But I'm obviously in the presence of a delicate genius such as yourself. With all of those accolades, one would think that your posts would be free of spelling errors. Not to mention, you never separated your paragraph's. You don't even have a paragraph. Just a block of loneliness and despair.
I'm still curious why you mastered Latin at a university level, seeing that there are zero countries that speak it. Kind of seems like a waste of your families money and a huge waste of your time. Also I wish you the best on your journey of being a "published Latin translator". I know there's a huge market for translators of a language that hasn't been spoken in year. And to be published in that field, wow, that's just an accomplishment that makes so much sense, I'm overwhelmed with feelings of joy for you. Congratulations studying and teaching the language that nobody speaks anymore.
My only professional accolades that have a chance of topping yours, is...... I don't live with my mother or my sex robot. I take care of a family of people that are real. I only speak 2 languages, and I run a successful company that I'd love to tell you about, but I'll refrain, because I would hate for my reality to merge with your fantasy where your speaking a language that nobody speaks into a room of imaginary friends and your trusty sex robot. You're nothing more than an ineffectual debutante. Congratulations on your teaching of a language that nobody has spoken in years. I'm sure students are lined up to hear you vomit out of your mouth.
 
People that say athletes weren’t as good because of stats alone don’t know what they are talking about. I watched Kobe with my own damn eyes, and they told be he’s one of the greats of the game, a legend, and one of the great competitors not just in basketball but sports history.

to say he was used as a hype machine by the nba is absolutely one of the most ridiculous things ever written. The dude won a shot ton of chips, with and without Shaq, and one of the greatest closers of all time, and I don’t get where that idiot says Kobe was disinterested in defense, again I relied on my eyes to come up with my own analysis. He was a hell of a defender.
 
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