Throughout an entire NBA season there are many ups and downs. The same is especially true for defending NBA champions. Wins, injuries, buzzer beaters, offensive struggles. These are just some of the words that describe the up and down season of Kobe and the Lakers during this season 2009-10. Perhaps photos do speak louder than [...]
It’s playoff time NBA fans! And one of the featured 1st round match-ups is the 1st seed defending NBA champ Lakers vs. the up and coming 8th seed Oklahoma City Thunder. Because of the Lakers recent woes towards the end of the regular season, there are actually…
Remember the old Michael Jordan commercial from the mid 90′s where he talks about how he has failed over and over again, but that is why he succeeds? Well somebody decided to create a remake of that commercial and replace the footage with that of Kobe Bryant. It’s very cool and worth watching especially for [...]
Yes I do realize this is big claim, to have the 10 greatest dunks of Kobe Bryant’s career all wrapped up in this blog post. I will admit that there is a good chance that I may be missing some out of the equation. And I look forward to getting your help on adding to [...]
It seems like every other game or so, LeBron James has one of those dunks that has you and your work buddies “buzzing”, talking about how amazing it was around the Coffee Maker in the break room. LeBron James is never short on providing highlights of some of the most ridiculous dunks you have ever [...]
The Lakers were down by 2 98-96 to the Memphis Grizzlies in Memphis tonight with about 5 or so seconds to go when Kobe Bryant did it again. More late game heroics from one of the greatest clutch players the game has ever seen. Here’s the video highlight from the game. What’s remarkable also were [...]
1. Receiving Ball In The Post
In today’s game you will often see players getting fronted when trying to post up on the block. Many times this actually works and the player who is posting up is unable to receive the ball and the play is broken.
It’s not going to be a walk in the park like it was back in 2000-01. It’s going to be a grind to the end. With fellow contenders in the West Denver Nuggets and the Celtics, Cavs, and Magic all lying in the East this year will be much tougher than last year. And that [...]
Kobe Bryant is the greatest scorer in Lakers history. In case you didn’t get the memo, Kobe Bryant passed Jerry West as the Lakers all-time leading scorer with 25,193 career points. Big congratulations to Kobe for an amazing career thus far. It’s not like this is just some small franchise record. It’s the Lakers we [...]
Thanks to some big plays down the stretch by both Kobe Bryant and Ron Artest, the Lakers were able to sneak out of Boston with a 90-89 victory over the fierce rival Boston Celtics. With under a minute to play Ron Artest makes a tough basket going to the rim with 2 defenders in his [...]
The Eastern and Western Conference All-Star Reserves were announced yesterday and course like every season, there are notable players who were snubbed while others should never have made the list. I’m going to leave any arguments concerning the Starters out of this blog post, since you really can’t hold any selective group of people accountable [...]
