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Breaking Down the Kobe Bryant / Ray Allen Feud
dimemag.com - 6/11/2008
Breaking Down the Kobe Bryant / Ray Allen Feud
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A lot has been made of the contentious past between Kobe and Ray - the two of them have been asked repeatedly about it by the media this week. In case you need to get caught up on the history between these two, Ball Don’t Lie posted a link to Sonics blog Supersonic Soul that [...]

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What Would Oakley Do?:  Wednesday's Starting Five

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Wednesday's Starting Five
What Would Oakley Do? — ... 3. Ray Allen. After looking lost at points in the playoffs and coasting by on his reputation and a few minutes in the All-Star Game in a rather lackluster regular season, Ray Allen actually had game last night. We all saw that inimitable elevate-and-release that made him feared and famous. Last night his ankles didn't look so old and his shot didn't look so cold as he scored a team-high 25 for Boston. He was going mano a mano with Kobe right up until his BFF got reinforcements in the form of the Boy Named Sasha. ...

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One Request For Ray Allen
greenbandwagon.com 6/10/2008 — Ever since roughly game 5 against the Pistons I have been happy with Ray Allen's contributions. He hit a huge shot in that game 5 down the stretch, came out of the gates on fire in the following game, carried it over to game 1 of the Finals where ...
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blogs.mercurynews.com 6/13/2008 — * Later in the item: My apologies to Ray Allen, Sasha Vujacic needs to beg for forgiveness for his wretchedness, James Posey is A Man, Kevin Garnett is a one-man Triangle-Stopper, Kobe Bryant totally bailed on defense and wasn’t so hot on ...
More From Celtics/Lakers Game 4 - Still Can't Sleep Edition
greenbandwagon.com 6/13/2008 — Ray Allen's reverse lay up was ridiculous. To review. He blew by a rotating Kobe Bryant, jumped, avoided Pau Gasol's block attempt, which was a lot more of an attempt than his game 2 wave at Leon Powe and his later wave at Allen in game 4, started ...
Number 17 for the Franchise, First for the Big Three! — The Sports Buzz
In a very entertaining yet lob-sided series that was supposed to resurrect the NBA, the Boston Celtics won their seventeenth NBA Championship with the game six score of 131-92, the largest deficit in NBA Final History! It was the franchise’s seventeenth championship, while it was the first for Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and “The Truth” Paul Pierce. It was also the first ...
NBA Finals 2008: Game 6 – Celtics Drop the Hammer on Lakers; Story Book Ending for “Big Three”! — The Hoop Doctors
June 18th, 2008 – Dr. J-Water Coming in to this game most of the discussions I heard regarding the game were about Kobe Bryant. Will he be able to extend the series for the Lakers? Will a win or loss affect his legacy in the NBA? Will Kobe be a passer, or will Kobe be a shooter? What does Kobe eat for breakfast on NBA Finals Game 6 game days? “Stop the madness!” or “Hold the phone!” or ...
Fiddlin' and Diddlin' - Daily Links 6/17 — CELTICS GREEN ...a boston celtics blog.
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KG: “I played like garbage” — Dime Magazine
KG Within the final four minutes of the game, Kevin Garnett went to the stripe twice with the Celtics trailing by two. He made 1 of 4 tries. After Kobe sunk two free throws, KG juuuust missed a tip-in off of a Ray Allen missed lay-up. For the League’s most competitive madman, those missed opportunities are [...]
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No team has ever come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the NBA Finals but prior to game five Kobe Bryant compared the Lakers' situation to the NCAA Tournament, suggesting that they must win in the Elite Eight (game five), the Final Four (game six) and the Championship Game (game seven) in order to be crowned the 2008 NBA Champions. The Lakers advanced past the "Elite Eight" on Sunday night with ...
Kobe Bryant’s Reputation on the Line Tonight — The Hoop Doctors
June 15th, 2008 – Dr. Anklesnap Tonight is the night, Kobe. This is the single biggest game in your career. You always tell us you live for these moments, well now it’s time to live up to the hype. Can Kobe Bryant perform when his team needs him most? So far this series Kobe Bryant has had only one good game, by “Kobe Standards.” Not exactly how most people, including Bryant, probably ...
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Ray Allen (photo. Jordan Brand) In the aftermath of Game 4’s comeback/collapse, the Lakers are still trying to figure out what went wrong. Like in many big losses, blame can be spread around: to Kobe for not making shots (6-for-19 FG’s), to Phil Jackson for not taking advantage of the fact Boston didn’t have a true [...]
Losing Kobe — Dime Magazine
Photo. Chris Sembrot After last night’s game, Forum Blue & Gold is understandably devastated today. They’re left particularly empty because Kobe & Co. had nothing left in the 4th quarter: But the Lakers still had hope. They also had a not so secret weapon. In the 4th quarter, we would need Kobe. But in [...]
NBA Finals 2008: Show Ray Allen the Love; Irony for Allen and Garnett — The Hoop Doctors
June 13, 2008 – Dr. J-Water When the NBA Finals began I stated that the key to this series was whether or not Kobe Bryant could defend Ray Allen. As Game 4 is now in the books and the Celtics are leading the Lakers 3-1, I guess the answer is no. I received multiple emails and messages from readers of The Hoop Doctors who thought I was focusing on the wrong Celtic player, as both Paul ...
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‘08 Lakers Mirror the ‘01 Sixers — Dime Magazine
(Kobe Bryant photo by Chris Sembrot; Allen Iverson photo by Gary Land) As the NBA’s standing versions of the ‘86 Patriots and Peter McNeeley, the 2001 Sixers and 2007 Cavaliers are generally considered the worst Finals teams of all-time. After last night’s epic Game 4 collapse, allow me to stick the ‘08 Lakers in that group. Really, [...]
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Kobe Bryant (photo. Chris Sembrot) Along with embarrassing themselves in front of the whole basketball-watching world, falling into a 3-1 series hole that’s likely insurmountable, and proving they simply don’t deserve to win a championship, the Lakers also allowed John Starks some long-awaited absolution. By blowing a 24-point lead at home and losing to the Celtics [...]
NBA Finals 2008: Game 4 – Lakers have Stunning Collapse; Ray Allen is my MVP! — The Hoop Doctors
June 12th, 2008 – Dr. Anklesnap If someone told me this morning that the Los Angeles Lakers would be up by as many as 24 on the Boston Celtics in the first half of Game 4, I would laugh and say “quit playin”! If they then added to that statement that Kobe Bryant at half time would not have a field goal in that same game I would say “have you gone loco?” Yet somehow that was the case ...
Time to fly — With Malice - An LA Lakers blog, news and opinions
What an ugly game. And Boston fans/blogs are right in asserting that their team played poorly. Very poorly. Kevin Garnett & Paul Pierce are not going to hit a combined 8-35 for 19 points that often. And yet they only just lost, even given their woes. But conversely, Ray Allen isn’t always going to go 5-7 from 3 point land. And it’s not like the LA roster lit the ...
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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball. Kobe Bryant walked off with a victory in game 3 of the NBA Finals Image details: NBA Finals Game 3: Boston Celtics v Los Angeles Lakers served by picapp.com Kobe was cool and calm and had an excellent game. Los Angeles Lakers 87, Boston Celtics 81 Bryant scored 36 points with an MVP-worthy performance; Sasha ...
Sure, the Celtics Can Improve After Their Game 3 Performance. So Can the Lakers. — FanHouse
There's a prevailing assertion out there today after the Lakers' "ugly" Game 3 victory that goes along these lines: Hey, the Celtics couldn't have played much worse, and they still had a chance to win! Ray Allen was quoted afterwards as saying "The solace in this whole thing for us is we know we can be better." Well, the Lakers can be better, too. The Celtics still might be the better team, ...
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