Kobe Bryant Posters

I hate to do it – really I do, but I’m throwing up Kobe Bryant wallpaper and posters on this site because I know there are you crazy fools out there who just gotta have it.  I’m not a Lakers fan by any stretch of the imagination, but as reluctant as I am to say it, the Black Mamba is one of the greatest basketball players who’s ever stepped onto the hardwood.  Very few other things on this planet create such an incomparable balance of fear and excited emotions in me than when Cleveland plays Kobe’s Lakers…the two teams, historically, are a far cry from rivals, but seeing two larger than life spectacles battling each other with a competitive edge sharp enough to slice ball hair…there’s just nothing nuttier.

Kobe Bryant is what Lebron James was years before he was the King James who we know and love today.  Kobe was the newest breed of superstar athletes called, “The Next Michael Jordan” (I just puked a little).  As you may have gathered, I hate that title (though I regretfully catch myself using it often), and what I hate more is that Kobe, on paper, is living up to the moniker better than my boy Lebron (give him time, folks), but he still has plenty of work to do.  Bryant has four rings under his belt, Jordan has six.  Kobe’s a 12 time All Star, Jordan’s 14.  Kobe’s seven time Defensive first team, Jordan is 9.  They can both dunk the lights out, but Jordan has him beat with two slam dunk contest trophies.

Both parties yield some impressive numbers, but in the ‘Most Valuable’ department, KB pales in MJ’s shadow.  Jordan has been dubbed the league MVP five different times, and Finals MVP all six times he’s made an appearance.  Kobe has been the league MVP once, and finals MVP once (same year).  Yeh, Jordan had Pippen, but Kobe had Shaq.  How can you possibly outshine Shaq in the finals?  Olajuwon managed to do it in 1995, but Kobe couldn’t.  Yeh, I took an opportunity to clown Kobe, but in fairness to him, there’s no one more cold-blooded in the clutch than Jordan, and until Lebron shows his true colors in a season or two, there never will be.

While Kobe is no Michael Jordan – dude, he’s not – he’s a ridiculous ball player, second best closer in the game today (behind James), and my number one favorite player to hate.  Whether you hate him or love him (I’m guessing you love him and hate me, and think I’m full of crap for the Shaq and LBJ comments and MJ comparisons), you need to show your feelings, and deck your crap out with Kobe Bryant wallpaper and posters.

Now that you have a whole gang of different NBA backgrounds to add to your computer desktop, you’d like to be able to show them off, right?  What sucks though is that typically you have to cycle them out one at a time.  It’s not exactly a difficult task, but it gets to be a bit of a pain when you do it all the time.  Wouldn’t it be a nicer if the shuffling was on auto pilot?  Well my friend, if you have Windows 7, it’s incredibly easy to make it happen.

First, download yourself a nice collection of NBA wallpaper.  You can stick around here, or scour the rest of the web – what’s important is that, for the ease of use, you save each separate collection to a different folder.  To make a Lebron James folder, just navigate into ‘Pictures’ within Windows Explorer (usually c:\Users\Public\Pictures), and click ‘New Folder’ on the top menu bar, and name give the new folder a name that makes sense (ie Lebron James Wallpapers).  Now any LBJ backgrounds you download, you can place them in here.

• When you’re satisfied with your collection (you can make adjustments any time), right-click on your desktop, and select ‘Personalization’
• Once you’re in the ‘Personalization’ panel, select ‘Desktop Background’ toward the bottom.
• Once in ‘Desktop Background’, select ‘Browse…’, and navigate to the location of your recently created folder.  In our example, it would be in your ‘Pictures’ location.
• Once selected, you can now check all of the wallpapers that you want to have in the shuffle rotation.
• After you make your selection, check the ‘Shuffle’ box and choose the how often you want the backgrounds to change (the default is 10 minutes).
• Now that you’ve created your new ‘Theme’, save under whatever naming convention you’d like.

That’s all there is to it!  Windows 7 not only blows its predecessor, Windows Vista away in stability, but with slick bells and whistles like the built-in background shuffle, you’re a fool not to make the switch.  Now you can have a Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, or Michael Jordan wallpaper theme, or just throw them all together into one superstar conglomeration.  Of course, if you’re if you want to switch away from the basketball motif (not sure why you would), you can find assembled themes for just about any other genre under the sun, or continue to pump out your own.  Have fun with it, folks!