In the GOAT discussions (although someone has distinguished basketball GOAT from hobby GOAT), the tippy top of the cream of the crop have something like 3 MVPS or more and 3 Finals MVPs or more. If we narrowed it to that, we get MJ, Bron, Magic . . . I think that's it? If we loosened it up a bit and made it 2 MVPs and 2 Finals MVPs, that includes Larry Bird, Tim Duncan, Kareem . . . (Wilt got one Finals MVP but would have gotten another in '67 if they had Finals MVPs then; Russell bascially couldn't have been awarded any Finals MVPs, Shaq and Kobe have at least 2 Finals MVPs each but "only" 1 regular-season MVP each (losing to the likes of Allen Iverson, Duncan, Nash, and LeBron).
I'm just saying, the competition gets pretty tight, up there in the top 5-10. Kobe's a top-10 legend, just trying to get a grasp on his top-3 hobby status.
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