As the basketball community knows, Kobe Bryant signed a three year contract extension worth 83.5 million dollars recently. In his final season of that contract he will be making upwards of 30 million. Not a bad pay day.
Also, when that contract was signed, it spawned several articles that mentioned Kobe Bryant in the same breath as Michael Jordan (for about the 345,897th time). Most of these articles may have been only to suggest that with this extension, it allows Kobe to possibly tie or surpass Michael in number of titles, but even so, we need to stop mentioning these two in the same breath.
I will not cover up the fact that I am not Kobe's biggest fan, but I like to think I am a bit more objective about Kobe's skill and legacy than delusional Lakers fans are.
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