Quote from: justdimin on February 20, 2019, 04:06:07 PM

Yeah, injuries can destroy a career, look at derrick rose he is the biggest example of it, dude could have been the westbrook of his time and helped his team to playoffs with a big regular season and could had his team go for championship all by himself, he was that good.

Now, he is just a has been. Kobe had an amazing career, dude has 5 championships and played his best basketball when he was in his thirty+ years old. Got injured "early" (still 34 or so) and stopped playing, dude could still play today and be a force but he lost all his love for the game after 3 years of nothingness.

Kobe could have given at least 3 years of great performance if he wasn't injured and probably more. Basically, if Ante is healthy he can be a Lebron James, if he gets injured it would be another Derrick Rose story, however even if he gets injured late into his career he wouldn't be a Lebron, he would at best be a Kobe.

This is want I'm trying to say about Kobe, if at that time sport science is advance in US by that time, he didn't really need to go somewhere else. And yeah, probably he lost like 3 years because of those injuries.

Giannis one advantage though is that he is still young, still a work in progress and I'm sure he has been given tips on how to stay "away" from injuries, so to speak.