he played too much. yall been talking about it for years now, complaining HARD for 2. it was inevitable that there would be an injury that he couldn't beat with offshore science and grit.

of course kobe is going to end up with better totals. he and his coaches don't know how to play any other way. duncan has better per minute numbers and we all know did stuff that doesn't show up in the stats we can all interpret (like when he actually helped on team defense).

and of course it is EXCEEDINGLY relevant that he will make much of the totals difference up in the only part of the season kobe, duncan, lakers fans, and spurs fans have any reason to care about.

you can hem and haw about the POSSIBLITY of the spurs not doing well in the post season, but most lakers fans had given up on kobe this post season months ago.

there probably wasn't a better way for kobe to play it, and respect to him for never quitting on this year. i ONLY responded cause some dumbasses are acting like kobe unequivocally has had a better season, which is an outright lie.