I am sick of the Lakers and the Heat on Christmas...

[photoguy]

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[JamStone]

there are better games that can be sceduled!

Better games? Sure.

But, not many better match-ups that will draw national interest, and ratings is what matters. Even with Shaq and Kobe "supposedly" burying the hatchet, there's still some tension. And, Dwyane and Kobe don't necessarilly like each other either.


I would rather have the Heat/Cavs match-up as well.

But, as for the late game, I'd rather see Suns/Mavs, not Spurs/Mavs, and I think most people outside of Texas would rather see the Suns over the Spurs as well.

[Obstructed_View]

I'd rather not have the Spurs on TV on Christmas. My parents don't get local channels and the Spurs are .500 on Christmas day.

[phxspurfan]

nobody would watch the spurs on xmas.

[cecil collins]

At least it makes it less likely that Kobe is at a Colorado day spa.

[rascal]

Spurs don't pull up ratings. So they won't be on.

It doesn't matter anyways with so many nba games on throughout the year.

Back in the early 70's they had one game a week on, then it mattered. You never got to see some teams play.

[Beer is Good]

The Spurs played on Christmas last year and never showed up. They looked like they just wanted to get it over with to go home, and I don't blame them. I wouldn't want to play a measly regular season basketball game on Christmas day. Maybe football, where every regular season game is important, but not basketball. I think the lack of national exposure is great for this team. They had it last year and I think they tried too hard to make a big regular season push from the start and were worn down come playoffs. This team needs to win about 57 games and go into the playoffs fresh with no attention. That's how they win.

[Big Dee Chi-Born]

No it's not. It's still Shaq and Kobe. The media will portray as it is, David Stern will do the same, and so will the majority of fans. As much as you like for it to be another storyline. Their thinking is still, Shaq and Kobe. Which is becoming sickening. If the Heat must play on Christmas, let them play the Cavs. I'd rather much see Wade and Lebron if Wade is involved in something anyway.

Check what Kobe thinks about this matchup!

Posted 07 August 2006 09:37 AM
J.A. Adande interviewing Kobe Bryant:

Did watching Shaquille O'Neal win a championship stoke any compe ive fires within him?

"Nahhh," Bryant said. "You know what I mean? It's fine."

I told him my first thought after the Heat won the championship is that it's no longer Kobe vs. Shaq, it's Kobe vs. Dwyane Wade.

"I think that's what a lot of people want to see, really, more so than the Shaquille O'Neal-and-me story," Bryant said. "I think it's Dwyane Wade being a young player and doing his thing."

On watching Wade and LeBron James keep playing after the Lakers were eliminated in the first round:

"I think it's great for the game," Bryant said. "People ask me that, they think I should feel some negative type of way about that. It's so silly to me. Because … the way it is nowadays, they try to pit players against one another. I think it's fun, because it raises up the level. You see LeBron playing well, Dwyane playing well, I love that stuff, man. I love it.

"It keeps the game going. When I was a kid growing up. Magic, Bird, Michael, Isiah, Charles — that's what it's supposed to be about. Chris Paul is now coming into his own. There's a lot of young talent."

Even at 27-going-on-28, we can still group Bryant in with the young crowd. But as he used to say, it's not the age, it's the mileage. The odometer shows 707 career games and 126 playoff games, so how's the car doing?

"It feels great," Bryant said. "I got my tuneup, had the mechanic go in, clean my joint out, I'm oiled up, I'm ready to go."

Not quite as good as the refrigerator door is closed, the lights are out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O is jiggling, but I'm sure it's a metaphor that sounds good to Laker fans.
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