Kobe Bryant played a key role in his Lakers winning the 2000 NBA championship. He played brilliantly against the Indiana Pacers in overtime of Game 4 of the NBA Finals and used an open court look, set up by his coaches, to win the game.
It’s been 10 years since Bryant and Phil Jackson embarked on [...]
Elgin Baylor never won an NBA championship ring.
So how could you even consider him the All-Time MVP of the NBA Playoffs?
Well, you have to at least consider Baylor among the nominees along with Boston’s great Bill Russell (the centerpiece of 11 championship teams), Chicago’s Michael Jordan, and a select few others. By the way, the [...]
Of all the situations spawned by the internal division of the Los Angeles Lakers, the dealings with Andrew Bynum seem the weirdest.
That was Tex Winter’s description of the coaching staff’s relationship with Bynum. Not mine. And that was almost two years ago, well before Winter suffered a debilitating stroke.
At the time, the Lakers were nursing [...]
If LeBron James decides to move to Los Angeles, there’s no way he would choose the Clippers as his new team this off-season.
He wouldn’t go there to be part of a side act, says a basketball source who has known James well and worked with him since childhood. “And the Clippers are definitely a side [...]
I remember the night Kobe Bryant scored his first NBA basket. I was there in Charlotte, and to celebrate his milestone of 25,000 points scored I’m posting my story about his first basket in the league from November 1996. In those days, getting a little one-on-one time was easy.
YO, KOBE, WASSUP?
Never mind that the interviewer [...]
