My favorite debate on first take with a guest

Kobe Lakers never got another player and the Lakers lost until LBJ came to LA

3:48 Nelly: Magic took a paycut for vlade SAS: MAGIC GOT PART OWNERSHIP idk why but that's hilarious

9:16 I love kobe but the fact that this ended up happening exactly word for word is crazy 😭

Ironic. He said "people are taking pay cuts to go play with LeBron James!" But right now, LeBron is the reason Nelly is saying Kobe was then.

9:00 - 9:47 its crazy how 12 years later we can say these exact words about letting. And all in a laker uniform too

The fact that Nelly isn’t even a sports journalist/broadcaster and was the most logical and level headed person on this set. Took all three of them to school. He had Carrie Champion looking like a child lol. All his points are literally irrefutable. Had SAS stumbling to name another player who played in Orl with Dwight. And Skip didn’t even speak 😂 Never seen anything like this before.

To add credence to what Nelly said, Bull Russell was a player coach after Red retired.

Still here in 2024, watching Nelly own this squad

this definitely was a very very gd debate segment this episode

“You think they’ll just watch Kobe limp into retirement?” That’s exactly what they did😂

Golden Era of First Take

Lol so funny how Nelly was backing Dwight up so much. And what did he do at the rockets? Nothing 😂

Lakers had a better record in 2013 than 2014 also the Lakers sat back and chilled let kobe limp into retirement 😢

I still come back to this and die laughing when Stephen a called Hedo Turkoglu “Tito Hurkaglu” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nelly is right af!

RIP to Kobe, no disrespect whatsoever to the Black Mamba, but props to Nelly for having the guts to speak facts when nobody was brave enough to say Kobe, after his achilles tear, was a washed ball hog who didn't care about making his teammates better.

Ive never seen him as the liter Lol

Hate to say it but Nelly was spot on in this clip. Lakers didn’t start to get enough talent on their team till they got Bron in 2018 and then they got AD and won it all in 2020 in the bubble and crazy they got Dwight Howard to come back and play a role on that championship team lol

Kobe was washed at this point but in his mind he still thought he was prime Kobe

Man you can tell Cari didn’t want to be objective lmao

Legendary debate

14:42 💡 Spoiled Child 😆

5:15 Nelly WAS saying that but didn't want to say it specifically 😂🤣😂🤣 I do agree with Nelly though that its wild that Kobe was like that...

I wish I had a friend like Nelly that will back me up like this! Amazing!

3:47 my favorite part 😂

best debate of all time , literally all things nellie Said will happening years later

Nelly held it down!! Owned the crew

"I don't doubt that the Lakers will come back stronger than ever... You think they are just sit for the next 5-6 years and chill...and not do anything and watch Kobe just limp his way into retirement? You think that's what the Lakers are gonna do???" Cari champion Right before the Lakers sat back and chilled as Kobe just limped his way into retirement 😂😂😂😂

This was the most accurate celebrity sports analysis of all time. Nobody wanted to play with Kobe at that time.

He dunked on him so hard he got called for the technical

If Nelly got hired as a talking head for ESPN, I'd watch the shit out of all his content 1000%!! He's the only one making sense right now

Kobe is a failure without Shaq, Phil and Gasol

The QUIETEST SKIP HAS EVER BEEN!!!!

predicting the future

so Boston Bruins decide to get rid of Tyler Seguin for off-ice problems but now sign Mitchell Miller who is a horrible person.

9:22 He predicted the Lebron Lakers in that one statement.

Nelly was talking from an everyday true to life perspective just in a basketball way

I remember how excited Kobe was getting Dwight to the team, he thought the Lakers were back in Championship contending team… as soon as Kobe called him, all the disappointments started to happen! 😂 Told Kobe he wasn’t gonna practice bcuz he wanted to enjoy his off season,didn’t want to stay late for practices and didn’t want to practice on his day off. Kobe just gave up on him and let his anger go for him and was just waiting for him to leave the team. The only time Dwight played was when Kobe didn’t, otherwise he always had fake injuries. He wasn’t motivated,wasn’t willing to put in extra work and didn’t care about winning a Championship… what would Phil Jackson do for him? Especially since he was a super stricken coach and only cared about Championships. (Besides not getting along with Jim and wanting $10million, the Lakers already had 4 Coaches that they were already paying that season and were in shambles)

This was classic 🔥😂😂😂

9:22 that's exactly what they did :((

4:34 that is not true...he was the GM of the wizards, left that position to be a player and they missed the playoffs both times...he didn't "ensure the best team possible" was on the floor, because that wasn't the case

2:35 i'll tell you why...because Kobe dropped 23 in the first half of Game 7 in that series, AFTER dropping 50/8/5 in an overtime loss the game prior...Lakers are down 15by halftime in G7 and Kobe, in the locker room, is told he needs to get his teammates involved His teammates were....Lamar Odom, Kwame Brown, Smush Parker, Chris Mihm, Luke Walton, Devean George and an 18 yr old Andrew Bynum, among others That team had NO business even making the playoffs, let alone being carried to a 3-1 lead...one guy can only do so much, it's a TEAM game. And his team didn't come through. Again, 50, 8 and 5 in Game 6 (that means carrying the load offensively, being active on the boards *AND* getting your teammates involved) and it still wasn't enough...and his coach or whoever it was had the nerve to tell him he wasn't doing enough? so what did Kobe do? He refused to shoot the ball in the second half of Game 7, and of course they lost If you wanna excuse Kobe of quitting on his teammates, go ahead, but that whole ordeal completely proved his point of "I carried these sorry ass bums by my damn self and y'all have the nerve to tell me to do more? so here you go, i'll chill, watch them fail without me" and that's just what happened

@11:17 HAHAH Nelly demanding startin 5 and Stephen A listing em off like he’s at gun point

Nelly nailed it at this time. RIP Kobe. 🙏🏾🙏🏾

Nelly won the debate period

Cari just sounds like another delusional Laker fan that don’t wanna believe nothing bad about their precious Lakers lol they ended up struggling all the way up til 2020 when they finally won a ring with LeBron and AD and Kobe gone.

9:17 dam that's exactly what happened though😂😂😭

Cari: "you think the lakers are just gonna sit for the next 5-6 years and watch kobe limp into retirement?" Thats exactly what happened LMAO

Nelly - “Who was on that Orlando team? Quick gimme the starting 5.” Stephen A - “Tito Hurkaglu” Lmaoooo