I could argue for hours and hours but well make it simple
1. Tell Lebron to learn how to play defense.. he didnt even come close to making ALL-DEFENSIVE SECOND TEAM while kobe made first team
2. Lebron's jumper has NOTHING on kobe's.. The degree of dificulty on Lebron's shots really dont even come close to shots kobe makes, but that is pretty hard to prove statistically so well move on..
3. Like ricecooker said, LOOK at Lebron's team compared to Kobe's. He has a former all star in Ilgauskas, as well as two big scorers in Hughes and Flip Murray.. Hughes averaged 22 ppg in washington, while if some of you remember in the 03-04 season when Ray allen got injured Flip averaged 20+ points for the first stretch of the season until Allen got back.. Not to mention Drew gooden who averaged 11/8 compared to the pathetic kwame brown who struggled to average 7/6.. Not to mention two veteran point guards (snow, jones) that have been deep in the playoffs (at least the conference finals) compared to the inexperice of Smush Parker and Sasha Vujacic (who both have never been to the playoffs coming into this postseason)
4. Point 3 just proved that the cavs have much more talent at each position then the lakers not mentioning kobe vs lebron
5. So how is Lebron "MVP" and "the best player in the nba" when he has a unquestionably better supporting cast then Kobe? Everyone says that Lebron "makes his teamates better" but really when you look at it, the players that were around him had great season BEFORE this guy was even in the NBA, and they are not playing better now than they were then...
6. Kobe has 3 rings, Lebron has none... so until Lebron can have more rings than kobe, he hasnt proved anything, just like how people will not admit kobe is better than Jordan until Kobe has at least 6 rings.
7. One of the most important aspects of the game... Lebron is NOWHERE in crunch time.. those two shots he made against the wizards were complete defensive breakdowns as they let him catch the ball and make easy layups at the ends of games. e.g look at Miami's defense of VC at the end of game 5 when they denied him the ball... Lebron hasnt proved he can score clutch baskets under that type of D, Kobe has
That is why in my opinion Kobe is better than Lebron, not just because I am a Kobe fan... Some of you may agree, some of you may not... thats fine just wanted to get my opinion out