Chris Bosh thinks that Kobe Bryant is the best player of his generation.
Which is weird. And wrong.
On so many different levels.
Bosh offered the following sentiments while making an appearance on NBC Sports’ The Dan Patrick Show (h/t ProBasketballTalk):
He’s the greatest player of my generation. He was that guy after Mike that really just won, and he was about winning championships. And he really did it a young age. When they three-peated, he was 21, 22 years old. It was just amazing to see him climb up so high, so fast. They did have their struggles, but he was still a great player – one of the greatest I’ve ever seen, of course.
This is all very nice of Bosh as Kobe prepares to ebb into retirement. But the Black Mamba isn’t a member of his generation.
Kobe entered the league in 1996, a full seven years before Bosh. Exact science for generational gaps does not exist, Bosh’s draft class, the famed 2003 contingent, founded a generation of its own—one led by LeBron James, not Kobe Bryant.
Now, Bosh might have been referring to “his generation” in a manner that aimed to define the best player he watched coming into the NBA. Kobe would certainly fall under that umbrella.
So too, however, would Tim Duncan, the best player of his generation, which also happens to be Kobe’s generation.
See where I’m going with this?
