Kobe Bryant lives up to 'Black Mamba' nickname
Published 5/23/2008 at L.A. Times - Basketball
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TOUTS posted 5/22/2008 from touts.wordpress.com
There were many thoughts going through my mind at halftime of the Spurs/Lakers game last night. I wondered, “If I was the best basketball player on the planet, and Bruce Bowen was guarding me, would I only put up three shots in the first half?” I thought through all the scenarios in my head, and every time I’d come up with the same answer, I would probably take more than three shots.Spurs-Lakers Game 1: This Will Leave A Mark
With Malice... found this 5/22/2008 on fivetooltool.blogspot.com
Tonight in Los Angeles, a Spurs team that slept on the plane, survived a Game 7 on the road, and is dramatically older than its opponent found themselves up 20 halfway through the third quarter. Kobe Bryant had 2 points. The Staples Center crowd was ...Game One Thoughts
With Malice... found this 5/22/2008 on www.forumblueandgold.com
The real world is keeping me very busy today, so I’m falling back on easy (read: lazy) bullet points to organize my thoughts. Plus, I like to do whatever KD does. • It’s great to have Kobe on your team. • That was by far the best defense ...If the Lakers win the title this year: 2008
chasesagum posted 5/23/2008 from bestplayerontheplanet.com
If the Los Angeles Lakers can somehow pull off a title run this year, Kobe Bryant will be considered (among those who know the game) one of the top 5 players to ever play the game!Waiting for Mamba to Strike
The On Deck Circle found this 5/23/2008 on hoopsaddict.com
On Wednesday night at the Staples Centre, the San Antonio Spurs led Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals by 20 points with 5:54 left in the third quarter. For a team that had been pushed to the brink of elimination by the upstart New Orleans ...
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Take your pick. Tex Winter has. Just about every element of Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference finals qualifies as unbelievable, bizarre, strange, whatever you want to call it. What was weirder? Kobe Bryant in the first half? Or Kobe in the ...
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BK and I have both been running about today, which has prevented us from posting a lot of new material today. Rest assured, more is coming before game 2, but as something of an appetizer (or at the very least, the sorbet eaten to cleanse palettes ...
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Dear Hornet, That’s how you don’t give up at home. Dear Chris Paul, That’s how you take over at the end of the game Dear Spurs, HAHAHA! 44-20! HAHAHA!!! Seriously though, did anyone else watch the game last night ...
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The On Deck Circle • Hoops Addict Article - Waiting for Mamba to Strike
Big Poppa Pump is heavily covering the Lakers’ road to the NBA Finals, and he has another one up at Hoops Addict. This time, Trev asks a question of the San Antonio Spurs - what are you going to do about Kobe Friday night? Check it out!
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BRYANT TAKING CHARGE FOR LAKERS
LOS ANGELES - Even Spurs coach Gregg Popovich knew Kobe Bryant was just biding his time. "Kobe, he was doing a trust-his-teammates thing in the first half," Popovich said. "He was checking it all out and seeing where his territory was going to be...
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