Kobe and McGrady have many points to be compared in terms of the skills as well as the personal attribute. They both have shaped their kingdom in basketball and the shoe field. The prevalence of the Kobe shoes and the McGrady shoes proved their popularity.
NBA is a site of loads of talents. Kobe and McGrady are two great peaks of the league that could not let pass. In them, there are quite a lot of things deserving the comparison and contrast. Here is a discussion of their qualities one by one.
McGrady is the record holder of block shot amongst the many full backs with 1.7 times per game in a single season. The advantage in the structure of arms and legs, the brilliance of bounce and the sense of defence, all these have contributed to his achievements. But in the current time, he has little performance in this aspect. He even has encountered the lowest record with only 0.45 times per game this year. Kobe, nevertheless, has got a very good mark in block shot incessantly. Many of his shots have been listed on the board of the five or ten best shots. The players who suffer from his block shot are so outstanding and many that they even can produce an all-star team.
On the steals, McGrady has come across his lowest time this year ever since the rookie season. Kobe has been able to get the tenth position in the league in the aspect after hard labours this year. Quite often Kobe has been blamed for having made the steal in a way as playing the gambling. But we could comprehend it in this way that he is eager to block the rivals’ attack. On the fifth game of this year, the Lakers was able to defend its honor in the home field due to Kobe’s excellent steals against Paul Pierce.
Kobe and Jordan are supposed to be akin in personality. This impression in particular has its occurrence before the finals when he had his appearance as a king did. But the loss of the finals and the bad performance on the finals had exceedingly disappointed the individuals that he still had a long way to go to reach the realm of the god of basketball. McGrady, on the other hand, has got the reputation of sleepy killer thanks to his mastery of all kinds of means in scoring and the dull eyes. But the killer seems to have fewer killing in the current time. Instead of the performance of excellent deeds, he seems to have put on an expression of laziness.
Kobe has got the praise and criticism at the same time. Various folks have placed criticism on him with the happening of the Zippergate and the end of the kingdom of the Lakers. Though he is able to make up the figure through the 81 points and the several times’ MVP, the loss of the finals has brought to him one more criticism. Nevertheless, Mcgrady has left a healthy and positive impression amongst the folks. In the mind of the folks, he is a player of brilliance, a father of responsibility and a husband of care. And because of it, he has been well sponsored by the Addidas company. For Kobe, there as well has the emergence of the series of Kobe shoes after his cooperation with the Nike corporation.