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HoopsHype : Free agent forward Josh Powell will sign a contract with the Los Angeles Lakers, one source told HoopsHype.com.
ESPN : It’s official now. This is NOT Japan and the 2006 World Championships, not to mention Athens and the 2004 Olympics.
This is Beijing and the 2008 Olympics, and the U.S. is back in men’s basketball.
These Americans, who looked so lost two years ago at the World Championship in Japan, appear to have found their Olympic way in China.
Batting away balls or swatting shots ...
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ESPN : It’s official now. This is NOT Japan and the 2006 World Championships, not to mention Athens and the 2004 Olympics.
This is Beijing and the 2008 Olympics, and the U.S. is back in men’s basketball.
These Americans, who looked so lost two years ago at the World Championship in Japan, appear to have found their Olympic way in China.
Batting away balls or swatting shots ...
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This guy breathes and lives basketball…
The Star : But I will tell you this: Kobe’s all over this tournament. When I was over there on Sunday to see Spain and Greece, a spy who was down near the court said the only American player who came by the arena to scout was Kobe, who stayed for about a half before heading out.
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HOOPSWORLD : Once you taste the NBA finals, your perception of the league changes. So says Sasha Vujacic, a 6′7″ guard from Slovenia, who recently signed a three-year, $15-million contract to continue his career with the Los Angeles Lakers. The year, he says, is no longer divided into the offseason, training camp, the regular season and the playoffs. It becomes much simpler.
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Vitamin Water viral video starring Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Deron Williams, Chris Paul, and Dwight Howard…
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This is definetely very strange. I tried to get the story, photo AND Pau’s reactions in one post:
OCRegister : The Spanish basketball team is drawing a little heat this week for a promotional photo in which they all stretched their faces to slant their eyes. Making jokes about slanted eyes might not be the best preparation for a trip to Beijing:
Gasol, who said he was forced ...
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Mamba bigger than Yao in China? Wow! Go figure…
Boston.com : Kobe Bryant’s No. 24 Lakers jersey was the top-selling NBA jersey in China this year, according to a press release from the NBA.
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ESPN : LeBron James and his teammates easily shoved Angola aside. Now come the teams that can push back.
Dwyane Wade scored 19 points, James dominated the game with his size and strength on both ends, and the U.S. Olympic team wrapped up the easy portion of its schedule with a 97-76 victory Tuesday night.
Dwight Howard added 14 points and James finished with 12 for the Americans, who ...
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Kobe is just making everyone’s day nowadays…
NBCOlympics.com : He is famous in his own right, the fastest man in America, a world champion and a possible star of the Beijing Olympics.
But when Tyson Gay ran into Kobe Bryant at the gym the other day, well, he did what any sports fan would do. He got excited. Star-struck even. Posed for a photo, then text messaged his mom.
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AndrewBynum.com : Attention : All Andrew Bynum/ Laker Fans……….He’s Back!!!!!
Allow me to formally introduce myself; I am Dr. Sean Zarzana (Dr. Z), Andrew’s personal trainer. I am pleased to report that Andrew has earned a Sunday day of rest after 10 straight days of grueling re-conditioning. He arrived in Atlanta late on the 23rd of July and wasted no time ...
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If true, this will be a huge challenge for Mamba. What are your thoughts? Sound-off.
Yahoo! Sports : The Lakers are considering moving Bryant to small forward and making frontcourt player Lamar Odom a guard.
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It’s easy to forget about the Lakers with the intense Olympics taking place right now. However, there are some heavy RUMORS going around right now. Here is the rumor (also being discussed on AM570 radio)…
The report goes that Mourning and Pargo and strongly considering the Lakers. Mouring would get the bi-annual 1.8 million and the Lakers’ would split the MLE to give ...
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Special thanks to Travis J. Rodgers for submitting his take to the Lakers Nation and giving us the rights to post it on the blog. Once again, if you have your own take and want to see it on TLN, feel free to e-mail it to us at Articles@theLakersNation.com .
Coby Karl, Joe Crawford, D.J. Mbenga, Dwayne Mitchell, Sun Yue. What do these players have in common? They have a good chance of ...
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You would have never been able to tell it was a rainy day in Beijing, China. Inside, the atmosphere was intense and had a championship atmosphere. On the court, it wasn’t much different. The game started with Yao hitting a three-pointer and the China started out hot. They hit their first four threes and kept pace with Team USA for the first 15 minutes.
Then, Kobe and USA went on a ...
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L.A. Times : His giant arms have embraced championships, punched defeats, clutched stardom, shoved frustration, been marked with every sort of tattoo and twist and tear.
Yet marching into National Stadium for the Olympic opening ceremony Friday, Kobe Bryant looked down and saw something new.
Goose bumps.
“First time ever,” he said.
And for his next act, the coldblooded ...
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Well this news will definetely turn your stomach. But at the end of the day, I guess we can ask ourselves this - did Jordan EVER leave the NBA to go play in Europe (or elsewhere) in his prime?
Yahoo! Sports : Kobe Bryant won’t sign a contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers until he has tested the global market, the U.S. Olympic basketball star told Yahoo! Sports on Saturday.
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Pretty cool stuff. I love what James said.
CBS2 : But the one thing we all learned is Kobe (Bryant) is the most popular player here, maybe the most popular athlete at the Olympics. The crowd was chanting his name, “Kobe, Kobe,” and the volunteers who were supposed to be guiding us were trying to get autographs. It is so out of control with Kobe that LeBron James cracked, ...
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Hey kids, it’s your old friend Varsityoptimism here, and no it is not October and no you are not hallucinating. I am here to dust off the old Pre-Game pen to breakdown the U.S.A. Screaming Eagles first Olympic match up against Host nation China. And after the stunning Opening Ceremonies that aired last night, if you do not have full-blown Olympic Fever, then you are not a member of the ...
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This is pretty cool… Good to know that Kobe has much popularity outside the States as he has in his home of Los Angeles.
Yahoo! Sports : This was the oddity of the night. Behind the Chinese president and the entire national team, the one athlete who appeared to get the loudest ovation was none other than Kobe Bean Bryant. The moment was so odd that even U.S. journalists were looking ...
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Josh Powell to sign with Lakers!?