This may be off topic...well it's totaly off topic but I just feel this needs to be said....As we all know, Michael Jordan is arguably the greatest basketball player of all time, and so is Kobe Bryant. I believe Jordan is better, and I'm sure most of you will agree with me, but I'm just curious about one thing...Everytime I bring up Kobe Bryant, people say he couldnt have won the three championships without Shaq, why is that? Don't people understand this is a team sport, nobody wins a NBA championship by himself. When I bring up Magic, nobody says he couldnt have done it without Wilt, Kareem, Worthy and all the other hall of famers. When I bring up MJ, nobody mentions Pippen or Rodman (who are both on NBA's top 50 greatest of all time list). So the question is, why does Kobe Bryant receive so much criticism?