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LOS ANGELES -- Games like this are why you can't trust box scores. You could look at the numbers, see that Kobe Bryant scored 49 points, and think you had the story of the Lakers' 122-107 victory over the Nuggets in Game 2 of this opening-round playoff series. You'd have no idea that Bryant and the Lakers were at their best during a five-minute stretch at the end of the third quarter when ... [link]

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The Transformation
Published 4/24/2008 by Andrew Katz at NBA Rumors - Trades - Free Agents - Basketball Olympics - Dime Magazine
... on anyone and everyone suited up for the Nuggets, KB24 still sounded like his blood was pumping on full blast even in the locker room:“Better learn not to talk to me,” Bryant said about J.R. Smith’s trash talk. “You shake the tree, a leopard’s gonna fall out.” Whoa. “The way he was going, we could have put 10 people on him and probably wouldn’t have stopped him,” ...

Kobedelic
Published 4/24/2008 by kambrothers at Lakers Blog
... From there, Kobe did more than just light up the scoreboard , taking on the role of facilitator in brilliant fashion. His second half included eight assists, with common beneficiaries being Pau Gasol and ...

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