sports.aol.com - 6/16/2008
—
What's that you say? The Lakers aren't dead yet? Hogwash! Why, I saw them give up a 24 point lead my own self, I did! What? Seven game series? What's that? Yes, the Lakers took the final game at Staples Center in 2008 behind solid defense, some 1st quarter Kobe Bryant brilliance, Jordan Farmar 's dashing good looks, and some boneheaded turnovers and missed free throws by the Celtics ...
Comments
Blog Reactions
NBA Finals Chat At FanHouse Today at 1PM EST
Hardwood Paroxysm —
I'm holding another Pau-Wow over at FanHaus today. Stop by and say "you suck."
I had to work late, so here's a Danica / boobs post.
From the Marbles —
... Why yes, Jensen. Yes, we can. But we're already in enough trouble with the Marbleheads, the makers of the CoverItLive chat software we broke today (their site's still down), and the guys over at AOL's NBA FanHouse whose chat we torpedoed as collateral damage, so we're not going to add to that list. ...
Related Content
Postcards From LA, Vol. 18: One Lakers Fan Tracks His Team Through the NBA Playoffs
emptythebench.com 6/16/2008 — Instead of focusing on poor play and bemoaning the fact that if the Lakers didn’t choke away a 24-point lead they would hold the 3-2 series advantage, the optimum way to view this situation is that the next two games are actually pure gravy, a gift from the basketball gods that allows the Lakers, who happen to employ the game’s best gunslinger, two do-or-die shots at basketball immortality.
Two more days of unproductive Sasha hatred
thesportsculture.com 6/16/2008 — The Celtics’ “Point Guard by Committee” approach failed. Not even an And-1 Mixtape Tour could successfully platoon between four different players to run an offense. It just can’t.
And in honor of Doc’s point guard potpourri, here are my scattered thoughts on Game 5
Kobe School Of Logic Passes Test -
courant.com 6/16/2008 — OS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant never played a minute of college basketball. No Big East. No ACC. Not the Ivy League. Believe it. We're from Connecticut. We would have noticed. This hasn't stopped the noted graduate of Lower Merion High in Ardmore, Pa., from ...
The 'Young, Dumb' Survivors —
NBA.com: News 6/16/2008
Just about 180 minutes after arguably the greatest individual athlete of any solo sport today, Tiger Woods, holed a 12-foot putt to force a playoff on Monday in the U.S. Open, 120 miles up Interstate 5 from there at the STAPLES Center, perhaps the ...
