Kobe Pokes Fun at the Spurs

[1Parker1]

Interesting that there are currently two teams in the midst of a nine-game road trip. Thanks to some excellent digging from our man Michael Jackson of ESPN Research, we discovered that there had only been 12 such trips before this season, dating to the NBA/ABA merger for the 1976-77 season.

Of those 12 trips, only four teams managed to post a winning record. The most recent example is San Antonio in 2003, when the Spurs used an incredible 8-1 surge as the springboard for halting the Los Angeles Lakers' three-peat run in what wound up as the club's second of four championships since 1999.

In the present, San Antonio is 1-2 so far on its nine-gamer after winning in Phoenix without Tony Parker (and Brent Barry) on Thursday night. The Lakers narrowly lost their trip's opener Thursday in Detroit, but they might be banged up worse than the Spurs with Andrew Bynum and Luke Walton and Trevor Ariza out.

No one's feeling sorry for the Lakers now after the Gasol robbery, but I did ask Kobe Bryant recently about a week before anyone had a clue that Pau would be arriving to fill the Bynum void -- whom the Lakers possibly could have upset in the scheduling office to get banished to the road for 15 straight days. Kobe's reply: "It's better to say you have to be gone that long because of the Grammys [taking over Staples Center] than because of a rodeo."

www.espn.com
:lol

[Spurminator]

Eh, I'd say it's a push...

[vanvannen]

I guess he is right. Grammys are indeed more glamorous...

[Sec24Row7]

Most of the acts and events at the rodeo are more entertaining.

I'd rather watch Mutton Busting than some 120 lb white dude bitch about how much life sucks at the top of his lungs after 3 lines of coke and getting blown by 4 groupies.

[Spurminator]

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/28/barry_manilow_narrowweb__300x426,0.jpg

[2centsworth]

it's kobe's willingness to understand other cultures. Atleast he didn't call the rodeo a gathering of hicks.

[Dave McNulla]

is the writer's strike over? i think it's more glamorous to be banished for an event that happens.

[BonnerDynasty]

Celebs are just as lame as stoopid livestock.

Oh wait, it's the people who drool over celebs that are livestock.

[Budkin]

Kobe should try his hand at rodeo clowning....

[thispego]

it's not A rodeo it's THE Rodeo

[Cry Havoc]

Eh, I think Kobe's just being funny here. Does it really sound like a serious comment? He knows the Spurs turn it on at this time of the year, so he's probably just taking his shot now when he can, before they (likely) go on a tear and end up with the #2 seed in the West.

[Dave McNulla]

it's bulls and blood
it's dust and mud
it's the roar of the sunday crowd

it's the white in the knuckle
the gold in the buckle
he'll win the next go round

it's boots and chaps and cowboy hats
it's Spurs and let 'em go

it's the ropes and the reigns
it's the joy and the pain
in the thing they call rodeo

[K-State Spur]

ahh yes, the grammys. where a song whose original lyrics were "let's get retarded" can win music's most prestigious honor.

[WalterBenitez]

I guess he is right. Grammys are indeed more glamorous...


I do agree with him for once, I prefer sweet blondies instead of dirty cows

[sa_kid20]

I actually agree with Kobe on this one. The rodeo blows and plus the arena smells horrible when it's over and the Spurs come back.

[thispego]

I actually agree with Kobe on this one. The rodeo blows and plus the arena smells horrible when it's over and the Spurs come back.
if you can't appreciate a rodeo then you are not a real Texan. that is indisputable.

[Spurms Chumps]

Kobe is right...

Bunch or red necks hicks!

[hater]

Kobe's right. Fake boobies > cow sh...

[sa_kid20]

if you can't appreciate a rodeo then you are not a real Texan. that is indisputable.
No it doesn't it just means i don't live up to the stereo-type that most people have of Texans. It's just not my thing.

[SouthernFried]

The culture of the sport of basketball is probably as far away from the culture of the Rodeo as you can get.

Hip Hop, Rap and the "glamour" of the Grammy's are prolly more in tune with the sport.

Me? I'll take the Horses... and Allison Krause, Taylor swift, Faith Hill...

prolly in that order too.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

The rodeo celebrates animals that we eat. Most people couldn't live without meat.

The Grammy's? Who honestly gives a fuck about Hollywood? It could fall off the coast into the ocean tomorrow and no one would miss it or the idiots in it.

[Spurminator]

The Grammys are an essential institution without which we might never have known that Christopher Cross' self-titled debut was the best album of 1980.

[MannyIsGod]

All I know is that unless all of Hollywood shits in the staples center having it taken over by the grammys is MUCH better.

[thispego]

No it doesn't it just means i don't live up to the stereo-type that most people have of Texans. It's just not my thing.
It's not my thing either, but rodeos are genuinly Texan and it sounds like you've never even been to one so what would you know? And the reason people believe that to be a sterotype is because of fake "Texans" like you propogating it as such.

[spurscenter]

kobe, john says hi

http://espn.go.com/media/mlb/2000/0605/photo/a_rocker.jpg

[O-Factor]

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/28/barry_manilow_narrowweb__300x426,0.jpg

LOL @ pic

I don't care what Kobe says. Its not like them trading for Pau is a guaranteed championship like alot of Laker fans believe.

[Slomo]

All I know is that unless all of Hollywood shits in the staples center having it taken over by the grammys is MUCH better.:lol

You have a point there.

[batboy]

Kobe's been on a roll lately:

Quote of the Night
"I'm letting [Lakers general manager] Mitch [Kupchak] handle that stuff. I gave up playing GM in the summer."
-- Lakers guard Kobe Bryant

[Fabbs]

:lol :lol Can we get a Laker logo 'chopped in?

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/28/barry_manilow_narrowweb__300x426,0.jpg

[703 Spurz]

To each his own.

Fuck 'em

[T Park]

I'll take the rodeo over a bunch of snob nosed jerk offs.

[CubanMustGo]

Man, a bunch of you people are thin-skinned. Let it go once in a while. The Spurs aren't always the greatest possible in every possible way.

[T Park]

Man, a bunch of you people are thin-skinned. Let it go once in a while. The Spurs aren't always the greatest possible in every possible way.



I believe those people who think that way are entitled to think that way as well are they not?

[Dave McNulla]

http://www.koreafilm.co.kr/movie/today_movie3/brokeback_mountain_14.jpgwhat hollywood wishes cowboys were like.

[thispego]

Man, a bunch of you people are thin-skinned. Let it go once in a while. The Spurs aren't always the greatest possible in every possible way.
uhhh, has anyone gotten upset by the comment? what are you talking about?

[MrChug]

The Grammys are more glamorous than a rodeo.

...and in other news, water is wet.

[2centsworth]

I don't see how just the mention of Rodeo is funny? I guess there are some stereotypes that people think are funny, but I seriously don't get it. Maybe if he would have said soul train awards, and then I would have thought it to be more funny, not.

[hater]

http://content2.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Borat/512/CDC16396-4651-45FC-9A64-B32E46DCC8C0.jpg

"And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq!"

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

I don't see how just the mention of Rodeo is funny? I guess there are some stereotypes that people think are funny, but I seriously don't get it. Maybe if he would have said soul train awards, and then I would have thought it to be more funny, not.Yeah, I always thought it was a unique excuse. Rodeo Road Trip does sounds pretty regional though, so I don't mind Kobe's joke, even it was a little snobbish.
But those glamor award shows aren't that great anyway what with LA's phony baloney, hoopla.

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/28/barry_manilow_narrowweb__300x426,0.jpg
:lol

[dg7md]

No it doesn't it just means i don't live up to the stereo-type that most people have of Texans. It's just not my thing.

:clap Same.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Celebs are just as lame as stoopid livestock.

Oh wait, it's the people who drool over celebs that are livestock.

:tu

The Cult of Celebrity makes me violently ill.

Fame is not a value.

[m33p0]

Kobe's been on a roll lately:

Quote of the Night
"I'm letting [Lakers general manager] Mitch [Kupchak] handle that stuff. I gave up playing GM in the summer."
-- Lakers guard Kobe Bryant
nice to see the screenwriters are back on the job. the last one they made for phil jackson was hilarious.

[ploto]

Rodeos hold absolutely no interest for me and I have lived my entire life in Texas.

To be clear, Kobe wasn't making fun of the Spurs- he was making fun of San Antonio! :lol

[T Park]

he was making fun of San Antonio!

Good for him.

I think hes a morally corrupt piece of shit too.

[thispego]

Rodeos hold absolutely no interest for me and I have lived my entire life in Texas.

To be clear, Kobe wasn't making fun of the Spurs- he was making fun of San Antonio! :lol
oh my god, no fucking shit. i don't think anything needs to be cleared up for anyone. i swear some of you people are so fucking stupid.

[Shaolin-Style]

Both are pretty lame to me.

Rodeo stinks worse, Grammys annoy worse.

[Brutalis]

wow @ rod man

[Louie Vega]

.........Kobe's reply: "It's better to say you have to be gone that long because of the Grammys [taking over Staples Center] than because of a rodeo."[/B]

www.espn.com
:lol


What's so bad about that?
How is he poking fun at the Spurs?
:wtf

[E20]

Yeah SA is nothing really compared to LA when it comes to entertainment and attractions. Don't know why some people get mad over the obvious.

[inconvertible]

that was funny.

[ManuAddicted]

Sorry, but since long time ago I prefer to watch the Rodeo instead of Grammys (we have something similar in Argentina, the 'Jesus Maria' Festival).
There's no more music... just a lot of idiots who are more interested in how they looks on TV than the music they do. And every year is worst...
We still have REAL musicians doing greag gigs... Led Zeppelin, The Police...

[The_Game]

how the hell is this a shot at the spurs? some spur fans can get so damn defensive. like a bunch of teenage girls.

[SpurYank]

I hate the Lakers, and Kobe, too.

However, the Spurs have played in three different arenas there in S.A. Can't the rodeo go elsewhere?

Kobe is right. I have always thought it was ridiculous.

[1Parker1]

:lol Jeez people, this was a joke...why are people getting so serious?

[thispego]

no shit, you said in the thread title that Kobe "pokes fun" at the Spurs. Maybe these idiots don't know what that means.

[Medvedenko]

This thread is still going....sheesh....