Honest hypothetical....No right or wrong obviously...

[fsuheater]

I think we have seen from both Lebron and Kobe that they can be a second coach, so to speak, on the floor. Lebron likes mentoring younger players and teaching them. I still remember the story of him calling Dexter Pittman every few days as a rookie when he was in the D-League, checking on how he was doing and his progress. He seems to go out of his way to make new teammates feel at home. I think Kobe would make a great coach too.

As far as in a game setting, I have just seen too much chucking from Kobe while being triple-teamed and too many spot on assists from Lebron, to think that Kobe would be better in developing a budding star. Kobe can be a bit selfish with the ball and Lebron can be a bit selfless, to a fault.

[Shill Jackson]

Kobe makes teammates better

[DorianRo]

No one would make Pippen the player that Jordan made him. Jordan challenged people every day in Chicago to be the best he could be.

Look at how many guys played their best basketball with Jordan? He raised the bar for everyone. I doubt Pippen would be a top 50 all time without MJ

[LookAway]

I think we have seen from both Lebron and Kobe that they can be a second coach, so to speak, on the floor. Lebron likes mentoring younger players and teaching them. I still remember the story of him calling Dexter Pittman every few days as a rookie when he was in the D-League, checking on how he was doing and his progress. He seems to go out of his way to make new teammates feel at home. I think Kobe would make a great coach too.

As far as in a game setting, I have just seen too much chucking from Kobe while being triple-teamed and too many spot on assists from Lebron, to think that Kobe would be better in developing a budding star. Kobe can be a bit selfish with the ball and Lebron can be a bit selfless, to a fault.

He made Lamar Odom better. And that "chucking" is what Wade does when he has to bail out your boy Lebron

[fsuheater]

I think we have seen from both Lebron and Kobe that they can be a second coach, so to speak, on the floor. Lebron likes mentoring younger players and teaching them. I still remember the story of him calling Dexter Pittman every few days as a rookie when he was in the D-League, checking on how he was doing and his progress. He seems to go out of his way to make new teammates feel at home. I think Kobe would make a great coach too.

As far as in a game setting, I have just seen too much chucking from Kobe while being triple-teamed and too many spot on assists from Lebron, to think that Kobe would be better in developing a budding star. Kobe can be a bit selfish with the ball and Lebron can be a bit selfless, to a fault.

He made Lamar Odom better. And that "chucking" is what Wade does when he has to bail out your boy Lebron

Odom was good before the Lakers though. I'm not bashing Kobe. I like him. I'm sure he has helped developed certain teammates. But he does like to shoot. A lot. Sometimes regardless of whether there are other open teammates on the court. I agree that Wade used to be "the guy" to take the final shot, but that has not really been the case since their first year together. Lebron is a different player now.