Paul Pierce the greatest?

Question

... why would he say that cause he is not the greatest

Answer 1

they have asked lebron who is the best his answer Kobe.besides Kobe has never said he was the best never you shouldn't have to the fans and players will say it for you if your are really the best.  PS they say Kobe is cocky. lol !!

Answer 2

i'm a big celtics fan but he is not the greatest player right now anyway. i hate kobe but i have to admit he's better than paul.

Answer 3

hes not the greatest...he's like the 7 or 8th best if that...lets see there's...

1.LeBron

2.Kobe

3.CP3

4.Garnett

5.D-Wade (when healthy)

6.VC

7.then maybe Pierce

Answer 4

ok ONCE AGAIN (for those not paying attention):

the question posed to Paul by a random FAN was " Do you think Kobe is the best?" to which Paul responded the same way ANY athlete would...to compete you HAVE TO have this mindset...if you have never been in this position it's understandable that it seems cocky TO YOU, but it the NORM...

TRY to pay attention...

Answer 5

paul pierce is not the best in the NBA

Answer 6

Are You Kidding He just won a NBA Title for his Team Kobe can't do it without Shaq So The Lakers Suck and The Celtics Rule, Get use to it.

Answer 7

Inside every basketball player, they should feel their the best. You should feel that in your heart, because that pushes u to do more and perform better. I donb't think he was being arrogant at all. I think Lebron really does feels he is the best, but didn't want to bring in all the unneccesary media attention by saying Kobe is the best. I can name 5 players right now who are far superior than Pierce; Kobe, Lebron, Melo, D-Wade, Dwight Howard. I'm better than Pierce myself

Answer 8

You dont even believe it and youre a Celtics fan. I dont think he should have said that. Yes he got the ring but with the help of KG and Ray Allen. To me hes being conceited for leaving them out. He wouldnt be saying that last year.

Answer 9

haha and people thought kobe was arrogant.

Answer 10

Listen, first of all, Paul Pierce's statement was taken out of context. Second, even if it weren't taken out of context,have people ever heard of the phrase, "To the victors, belong the spoils"? Pierce's team won the title, he can say what he wants. Two years ago, the Miami Heat were newly minted champs, and D-Wade was on top of the world. He had a right to say what he wanted. Now if Memphis' Darko Millicic said it, I can understand people being moved to respond. But this is no big deal. Rather you feel it's Kobe, KG, CP3, MBJ or someone else, be strong in your beliefs.

There's waaaaaayyyy too many people in this forum, who feel they have to be the self-appointed defender of their favorite player. Give it a rest.

Answer 11

hey Laker fan,

i'm a Celtics fan, but i do not think Pierce is the greatest. i think he got a little too excited and said something he probably shouldn't have said.

Answer 12

The greatest belongs to Bill Russel and Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson and Larry Bird

sorry kid

Answer 13

hes not the greatest

but to me hes the third best player in the league ri now

behind kobe and lebron

Answer 14

paul pierce is an arrogant piece of **** cuz he's no way near kobe's talant. plus, he's a big d**k and he only has that ring cuz of kg and ray allen. remember last year, he wanted a trade unless he got someone good. pierce is a big baby thats living on the talents of garnett and allen.

im not a laker fan but pierce is a piece of dusch and just gets me rly mad.

Answer 15

his not the best not even close his not even the best player on his own team for him to say that means his smoking some good Shhhhhhhh............ask Kobe who the best is and he says Lebron .......ask Lebron whos the best and he will say Kobe....ask Jordan he says Magic...ask Magic he says Jordan.....ask Dr. J he says Kareem ask Kareem he says Dr. J....  for him to say his the greatest just goes to show you how much of a selfish player he is living in his own fantasy world.....great ones dont say it they prove it....

if he is the greatest how come he never made it out of the first round before Garnett showed up....how come he only won 24 games before Garnett....???

Answer 16

He didn't say he's the greatest, he said he's the best basketball player right now and he said he's not being arrogant but just confident.

Maybe he has mistaken confidence for delusion.  He isn't even on the top ten of most basketball fans, analysts and players themselves.

Answer 17

It's not a BIG deal......Kobe is more than welcome to try and prove Paul wrong, but he sure didn't do a great job of proving it in the finals.....................