It’s so shameful that you continue to attribute Kobe’s standing strictly to his death, when plenty of people like me were properly assessing his unparalleled skill 10 years ago. Kyrie was playing alongside your Lord & Savior calling Kobe the greatest 10 years ago.
Honestly bro, you dont count. And Kyrie is among of group of millennials who grew up watching Kobe and bought into the self imposed mamba persona and MJ cos play antics that made Kobe famous. There simply were no serious rankings or conversations during his last few years or swan song year or early retirement years that had him ranked as anything other than the 2nd best SG to play behind MJ. There were NEVER discussions of him being a better SG than MJ, let alone in discourse for best ever.
In fact, it was his greatest individual accomplishment to be solidified as the 2nd best shooting guard to ever play. There was absolutely no serious discourse about him being better than MJ or even up for debate. Then all of a sudden after his tragic death, everything is being rewritten in real time and he is somehow wedged into GOAT debates with MJ and LeBron.