He doesn’t need to do what he’s been doing latterly to prove anything. Especially he doesn’t have to say (whether truly or not) that he’s playing through injuries and then play all 48 minutes of a game.
Here’s the rub: Kobe Bryant has jumped the shark and perhaps he knows it. But this egoistic human being cannot accept this. He has to do something unusual to prove that he is not past his prime, that he’s not going down hill, that he is not in irreversible decline.
He cannot accept the fact that it’s not his league now. Other younger, and (this is most painful for Kobe to take, I’m sure) better stars such as LeBron James (Miami Heat) and Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder) have taken the league over.
He’s so insecure of his (already remarkable) legacy that he’s doing publicity stunts nowadays and hurting more than helping the team’s chances (As of now, the team of four superstars, Steve Nash, Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol being the insignificant others, is still struggling to even make the playoffs, let alone win it all as they were expected to before the season began).
Sadly, Kobe’s antics and theatrics only help to reinforce the impression that the Kobester is in firm decline.
Definitely, Kobe is jumping the shark these days, again and again.
Alright, here are examples of jumping the shark in the press:
1. The death knell for any long-running series usually comes when a woman (almost always nervous and fretful) utters (after many “comic” misunderstandings) two fateful words to her husband: I’m pregnant.
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