sportingnews.com - 12/4/2008
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Welcome to Shoals Unlimited , where Bethlehem will post a long-form piece on basketball once a week.
The League is in much better shape than it was 10 years ago, but we're still waiting on the Next Jordan. It's part reflex, part messianic yearning, part laziness on the part of fans, ...
thehoopdoctors.com - 12/4/2008
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thehoopdoctors.com —
Kobe Bryant is the latest to exact ankle
breakin’ punishment on a Philadelphia 76ers defender. Last night
Bryant faked the drive on the athletic super defender Andre Iguodala, then stopped on a dime with a vicious crossover to an open jumper.
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Video: Kobe Gives Ankle Breaking Crossover to Iguodala!
asternwarning.com - 12/1/2008
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asternwarning.com —
O.J. Mayo is pressing Derrick Rose for the
first time in A Stern Warning listing of top
rookies. LeBron as his MVP leader is a little more a no-brainer over Kobe.
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NBA MVP and ROY weekly rankings
basketball-reference.com - 12/8/2008
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basketball-reference.com —
I have to say that I’m really enjoying
FreeDarko’s new book, The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac. It’s
one of the most unique basketball books I’ve ever read, and the artwork is nothing short of, well, macrophenomenal. ...
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Kobe and MJ
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The Fundamentals
BallerBlogger.com —
... Bethlehem Shoals of the Sporting News:Â “Kobe no longer strives to be important to the man on the street, to matter the way Jordan once did. His marketing presence has bordered on goofy: Dressing up as Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein, faking a jump over a speeding Aston Martin in a viral video, and coming off as way too excited to play ‘Rock Band’ in a primetime ad for the game. With this, though, has come an almost universal appreciation of just how darn good the guy is, how his mastery of the sport, work ethic, and relentless determination are probably ...
The Next Jordan, The Next Mays: Fun To Ask, Perhaps Impossible To Answer
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
... Over at The Sporting Blog, Shoals waxes on the “who is the next Jordan” question that we’ve asked and heard endlessly over the past decade. I had regarded it as one of those questions that is asked by Man and answered by Death, but Shoals offers a spot-on dual answer: explicitly that Kobe and LeBron can be combinative components of Jordan’s legacy, and implicitly that there is no next Jordan. ...
NBA Essentials: The Evolution of Tim Duncan
FanHouse —
... Project Spurs, via BallerBlogger. Tim Duncan is stoic, his style is timeless ... and yet he's slowly changing. 2. Brian Windhorst. Better chemistry through bathing. 3. The Good Point. An open letter to Greg Oden's neck beard. (Yes, you read that correctly.) 4. ESPN: Wayman Tisdale lost a leg but not his smile. 5. Shoals Unlimited. The next MJ is so good he occupies two bodies! 6. ...
Bites Eat Everything
freedarko.com —
[image] The more I watch LeBron this season, the more perplexed I am by Kobe Bryant. Last month , I said that LeBron + Kobe = MJ, which of course assumes that Jordan is monolithic, or that the various phases of his career (worth talking about) don't in some ways embody opposites, or at least contradictions, when placed side-by-side. ...
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Jordan, Kobe, & LeBron
ballerblogger.com 1/11/2009 — Via Ramona Shelbourne of the Los Angeles Daily News :
Over the years, a lot of people have compared Kobe Bryant to Michael Jordan. Today, as he was releasing his new Nike shoe, Jordan himself made the comparison:
“Will there be another ...
Kobe Bryant vs. LeBron James vs. Boston's Defense
myespn.go.com 2/6/2009 — The debate about the best player in the NBA, these days, usually comes down to some kind of shouting match about Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. But when they're talking about most skilled -- as in, the guy with the most creativity, body ...
Preview and Chat: The Cleveland Cavs
forumblueandgold.com 1/19/2009 — (First, Happy Martin Luther King Jr. day. It seems to mean a bit more this year.)
Lakers : 31-8 (1st in West), Cleveland (1st in East, by % points over Orlando)
Offensive Rating : Lakers: 110.4 (1st), Cleveland: 110.0 (2nd)
Defensive Rating : ...
Point/Counterpoint With True Hoop's Henry Abbott
20secondtimeout.blogspot.com 2/10/2009 — Two recent posts at Henry Abbott's True Hoop have recently inspired some discussion in the comments section at 20 Second Timeout. Here are links to the posts in question: One Shot, with the Game on the Line Kobe Bryant vs. LeBron James vs. Boston's Defense I have made it very clear that I ...
NBA Top 50: Kobe Bryant (No. 3)
nba.fanhouse.com 10/15/2008 — FanHouse's Tom Ziller argues his ranking of the top 50 players in the NBA . Kobe Bryant will never quiet his critics, and it has nothing to do with his personality, his jersey or his legal history. Kobe's divisiveness can be traced to the most ...
Bites Eat Everything
freedarko.blogspot.com 1/10/2009 — The more I watch LeBron this season, the more perplexed I am by Kobe Bryant. Last month, I said that LeBron + Kobe = MJ, which of course assumes that Jordan is monolithic, or that the various phases of his career (worth talking about) don't in some ...
NBA TV Panel Weighs in on Kobe Versus LeBron
20secondtimeout.blogspot.com 2/5/2009 — I just posted my skill set-based take on the differences between Kobe Bryant's 61 point game at MSG and LeBron James' 52-11-10 performance there ; prior to this season I explained why I still give Bryant a slight edge over James for the title of best ...
The Slam Dunk is Back —
Bleacher Report - NBA 12/4/2008
The dunk contest is back, my friends. Thanks in large part to Super Man Dwight Howard. The dunk contest originated in the ABA in 1976 but because of the merger with the NBA later that year, it was the only year the ABA had the contest. In 1984 ...
