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they should've held any of those PSed ones
they should've held any of those PSed ones
So, is Manu still better than Kobe, Spurs fans?
Son, please don't jinx him like that.....Lakers can't afford kobe going 2-9 like manu's been playing lately.
Lmao TNT crew talked about Sloan's quote about how Kobe is like Miss America. Fun .
In Kobe's case it would be more like 4-18 than 2-9.
Exactly son, which is why I don't want spur fan to jinx him. I don't want my team swept like the spurs.
Thanks.
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I really don't like the Suns, but the calls are really bogus for a WCF. They should call it like the Boston Orlando game. No blood no foul.
Kobe just adding to his lore ...but man jordan has like over 4o more 30 point games in the playoffs
Kobe is GREAT best player since MJ ...
BUT MJ>Kobe ...
ChrisRichards and MiamiHeat nowhere to be found
Please.
Perhaps arguably "best talent" since MJ, and that's only arguable because of LeBron.
But much harder to argue "best player" since MJ when you must consider Duncan and Shaq.
history always finds a way to repeat itself.
lakers dynasty... 2 year bridge with pistons les... bulls dynasty
spurs "dynasty" ... 2 year bridge with lakers les... mavericks dynasty
just funny how things work out
torch passed in the '91 Finals... I suspect the 2011 WCF will be like a passing of the torch as well.
I never said that Kobe was Indisputably the best player ...
This is an Internet "forum" a place to make your opinions known and to make your case ...
I think he is the best player since MJ for the rings, scoring and consistently high levele of great play on both sides of the court even THOUGH he can be sometimesy on defense ...
I disagree with Jamstone ...BOTH Lebron and Shaq have MORE talent than Kobe ...
But Shaq has not shown the drive or dedication to maximize his talent ...IMHO Shaq had the talent and skill for a big man to be the GREATEST CENTER since Kareem AND at least in the argument with MJ Bird and Magic for greatest player of the past 30 years ...but he is not even as great as Duncan ...
Lebron has the physical TALENT to be the GREATEST of them all (even MJ)
BUT He has no rings and cant join this debate until otherwise ...
Duncan>Kobe BEFORE this season but Kobe has been in the league almost the same time and Kobe is STILL putting up MVP caliber seasons ...
Slight edge to Kobe but JUST AN OPINION someone is gonna argue they have TANGIBLE proof that Shaq or Duncan is better?
There is none.
Kobe makes opening statement to Suns
By Marc J. Spears
A week had passed since Kobe Bryant had done anything substantial on a basketball court, and when he walked onto the floor early Monday evening, a bright yellow sleeve covered his troublesome right knee. A report earlier in the day said fluid had been drained from Bryant’s knee, the first alarm in Lakerland that something could be amiss. After the Phoenix Suns twice knocked Bryant to the floor and he was slow to get up, the question was fair to ask: Would Bryant’s injury limit him too much for him to be effective in the Western Conference finals?
Hardly.
Just when it looked like the NBA had discovered a in Bryant’s armor, that familiar scowl reappeared. He arched in a tough shot over a pair of defenders, then shook his head in disdain at both his opponent and skeptics. By the time Bryant was done, he had scored 40 points and brought down a 128-107 beating on the Suns.
His message was clear: Until someone knocks him from his throne, he still reigns over the league.
“It just comes with being at the top of the hill,” Bryant said of the doubts that have accompanied his injury. “Just more fuel for me.”
Not that Bryant was lacking for motivation. The Suns ran him out of the playoffs in consecutive years, frustrating him so much that he demanded a trade in the summer of 2007. Bryant’s injury problems and LeBron James’ second straight MVP award also had led many to wonder if Bryant even belonged in James’ class anymore.
Bryant, however, measures his success only in championships, and the start of the West finals signaled just one thing: Eight more wins and he would have his fifth le, leaving him just one shy of Michael Jordan. So when Suns forward Grant Hill tried to get physical with Bryant, the result was predictable: He attacked Hill and the Suns time and again.
Was this personal?
“It’s never personal with me,” Bryant said behind a smirk that revealed it was exactly that.
For all of the Lakers’ struggles, for all of Bryant’s injury concerns, both he and the team have only grown stronger as the playoffs have progressed. He scored at least 30 points in all four games of the Lakers’ second-round sweep of the Utah Jazz, then he didn’t practice a single time this past week so he could rest his legs. A Los Angeles Times report on Monday saying Bryant had his knee drained sent Los Angeles Lakers fans aflutter, but a team source told Yahoo! Sports that the medical procedure took place before the second round.
Bryant was amused by all of the concern. He chided one reporter for being “so observant” about a knee brace he had worn for much of the playoffs in different colors, joked that he was “a couple pounds lighter” after having his knee drained and said “old age” was the key to him settling into a scoring rhythm.
“My legs benefitted a lot,” Bryant said of his week off. “I was just able to take some time off and get stronger, get my upper body stronger. It’s just kind of like training camp all over again where I don’t do much on the court, but I was in the weight room doing what I needed to do.”
Bryant seemed to lack his usual explosiveness early in the first quarter and twice got up slow from the court. He didn’t make his first shot until there was a minute left in the quarter. Even so, the Suns weren’t quite ready to believe Bryant was headed for an off night.
“I don’t think I ever overestimate him,” Suns coach Alvin Gentry said. “You knew at some stage he would try to take the game over. That’s what he does. He’s a great player. He has the focus in one area and that’s to try to win a championship.”
Bryant closed the opening quarter with a flurry, scoring seven quick points to put the Lakers firmly in control. He floored the Suns in the third quarter while scoring a staggering 21 points that included a two-handed dunk and a tough baseline drive for another basket that left him shaking his head at the fans.
So much for his sore knee.
“He looked pretty healthy today,” Suns forward Jared Dudley said.
Bryant coolly drained a 19-foot turnaround jump shot with 9:35 left in the game to push the Lakers’ lead to 103-85. He exited the game 42 seconds later with his 11th career 40-point playoff performance. He is now averaging a dominant 28.1 points in this postseason, including six straight games with 30-plus points.
“He continues to do things that put him in a category of his own,” Lakers guard Derek Fisher said. “We like to compare guys to other guys, but there are times where he does things that nobody else could really do it.”
Yes, this was yet another statement by Bryant. The Suns aren’t getting off easy. He’s hungry and he’s feeling good about his game again.
“When Kobe has the repertoire that he has and the ability to do so many different things,” Fisher said, “when he’s healthy, I don’t know how much more you can do if you’re the opponent.”
He sure did carry the ball to cross over Hill!
Game 1 Kobe - 40 points
Game 2 Kobe - 13 Assist
Game 3 Kobe - 20 rebounds!
lame
yeah i got tats on my legs, yeah they're spurs and yeah they're on my calves... we've gone over this yrs ago and yet it's still being brought up like a bad joke. it's in' old man and you think it gets to me when you say the bs you do? you think it gets to me especially coming from some chump off the internet? come on now man... i didn't get these tats because i thought i'd shrivel up into a ball and hide when someone put me down about my decision to tat my calves up with spurs, i got these tats because i wanted to, because i like them and because i could give 2 s less about some made chump on the internet.
get over it man and add to this thread or get the out already. come up with something clever or shut the up and get out of my thread.
Kobe actually had a strong game tonight, other than 3-point shooting.
1 rebound away from a Triple Double!
LMAO being married to Vanessa:
http://www.tmz.com/2010/05/23/kobe-b...#ixzz0oqJPxKp8
Meh, Kobe is used to settling out of court to get rid of his problems..
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