Of course Kobe's big flaw in the grand scheme of things was that as great as his game was he had no where near the charisma MJ had, or for that matter Lebron, Curry and other cats like Durant have.
Kobe Bryant is likely to be more remembered than Curry or Durant. Curry led his team to a record 73-9 season and has the 3pts record (likely to be beaten by him next season or someone else in the future), but Bryant has 20 seasons and 5 rings to his name. Durant, as good as he is, doesn't have much to show for future generations.
Curry is still a work in progress, we don't know just yet where history will have him. Durant was just an example of a charismatic player, but dude has not really even sniffed anything of significance yet so I concur there.
It will not surprise too many people though if the Spurs this year knock off the Warriors, there is not a lot of difference there. But Golden State seems to be on a mission this year, and at this point they better cash it in or history will remember them as the greatest choke job in the history of the game even if the Spurs simply turn out to be better over the course of a series.
But I digress.
Another big difference between Kobe and MJ is that Kobe was always seen as a prodigy, straight from high school to the NBA. MJ was pretty lightly recruited, his old college roommate Buzz Peterson actually came to Carolina with a higher pedigree, But I can still remember my oldest brother who was in law school at Carolina back then telling me that there is this kid coming in from Wilmington, best vertical leap since David Thompson (a guy who was a phenom in and of himself)