Kobe passes Chamberlain to become youngest to reach 20,000 points

[dez]

I don't know about best player, but certainly best scorer.

both IMO.

 

[Mexi]

dez, check this out:

Andrew Bynum's development this season has been one of the positives of the Lakers' surprisingly successful start to the season. But though the Knicks had a chance to draft the young big man instead of Channing Frye with the eighth overall pick in 2005, Isiah Thomas says he wasn't sure the New Jersey kid could endure "the beat-down here in New York" he would have had to endure as a developing player.

"The only reason why we didn't take Bynum was because of his age," Thomas said of Bynum, who was 17 at draft time. Thomas said he believed that the New York crowd would have been tough on Bynum in the two years that he would have had to develop.

Thomas, who traded Frye to Portland last summer in the deal for Zach Randolph, said Los Angeles is a better situation for Bynum. Thomas says that's because of the presence of Kobe Bryant, who, some may remember, publicly criticized Bynum while trying to force a trade last summer.

"Kobe makes all the difference," Thomas said. "When you're playing with a person such as him, you can hide a lot of things. He casts a big shadow and so you can do a lot of things and wait because of that guy named Bryant."

 

[dez]

Even though I agree with Thomas (about the "beat down") if you see a potential talent like that, you have to take it. Hell us Knicks fans are hard on everybody, he would of just had to endure it, it would have made him mentally tougher. But oh well, we dont have him or Frye anymore.....

damn you biased Knick fans.....lol