Sounds like Liz Cambage is a little Jelly that Kobe isn’t trying to sling his “Black Mamba” her way. She is on Twitter snitching on Stephanie Rice saying that Kobe is creeping with Swimmer Stephanie Rice
What a Hater Vanessa never believe a hater who just wants your husband
vANESSA Williams was not at all happy with the pics of her estranged husband on the internet surrounded by 2 girls with his shirt off
Now sources say Kobe got a drink spilled on him and was only shirtless a real brief time while he waited for another shirt
But being Kobe’s history of cheating and him being in another country without Vanessa is alarming. These pics come a day after the pic with the 2 spanish women sitting next to Kobe as he cheesed away this was said to be just fans asking for autographs
Word on the Blok is that all that friction going on in Laker camp was more than meets the eye. Shannon Brown husband of R&B singer Monica is rumored to have slept with Pau Gasol’s fiance Silvia Lopez Castro. Of course Shannon took to twitter to deny it but that is not always a good thing. This comes right after Gasol and Kobe Bryant denied a story that said Kobe’s wife Vanessa was the cause of Pau and Silvia’s break-up
Now several Blog Sites are reporting that it was Andrew Bynum not Shannon who slept with Pau’s woman. If she slept with ole doofy ass Bynum I think I’m a try my luck
MY WORD whether it’s true or not boy the Lakers are a mess
My Word: I been saying this for years. Now that the true King said it maybe we can now move on
Tonight Celtics and Lakers will square off in their First Game 7 since 1984 tonight in Staples Center. The Celtics have pretty much Dominated the Lakers in their head to head matchups. The Celtics lead the Lakers 9-2 in Head to Head. The Celtics Franchise also leads The Lakers franchise in Titles 17-15. The Celtics will take the floor tonight without their Center and best inside defensive interior player Kendrick Perkins who tore his knee in game 6. I predicted the Lakers in 7 from the start I’m staying with that pick even though as a Lakers fan i am very nervous
MY WORD VS YOURS If Kobe Bryant wins his 5th Lakers championship coupled with now being the All Time Scoring leader in Lakers History he will not only in my mind be in talks for 1 of the 3 best Lakers ever but he will be in talks for one of the top 3 Players in the History Of The NBA
Kobe Bryant scored 38 points and made dazzling complicated shot after dazzling complicated shot but by himself he could not overtake the Boston Celtics who seemingly answered every Kobe make with a make of their own. The scene now shifts back to the Staples Center in LA for Games 6 and 7 plain and simply the Lakers have 2 games in their building to win it all. Kobe Bryant cursed and yelled at his team after the game and demanded “somebody have to take a stand with me” Tuesday night is Game 6
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BOSTON – On his way into the losing locker room, the most angry man in the Garden was heard to bellow a spontaneous stream of curses into the ears of his Los Angeles Lakers. As the door slammed behind them, a witness heard Kobe Bryant(notes) screaming that he needed some-bleeping-one to make a stand with him.
The Lakers have been pushed to the edge and Bryant to the brink. Here it was, the most important night of these NBA Finals, a Game 5 with everything even, and it felt like the post-Shaq Lakers with Bryant left to fend for himself. Bryant had gone for 38 points at the Garden, one tough shot after another, a great Celtics defense daring him to make baskets from one more odd angle, one more contested circumstance.
The loneliest Laker had to be Bryant, watching one breakdown after another, a procession of Celtics getting baskets and rebounds and loose balls when they most needed them. He needed someone to grab a defensive rebound, stop Paul Pierce(notes) and get between Rajon Rondo(notes) and the rim.
A little more than an hour after the 92-86 loss, the surliness was gone, replaced with pursed lips and a glare gone to Game 6 now. Bryant wore unlaced high-tops for an ankle that had been hurt again as he walked to a waiting bus on the loading dock.
“We’ve regressed since Game 1,” Bryant confessed to Yahoo! Sports. “Our defense belongs on milk cartons in the last two games.”
All around him, these Lakers were unraveling. Andrew Bynum(notes) struggled on one knee. Lamar Odom(notes) felt sick. Kevin Garnett(notes) destroyed Pau Gasol(notes), and Paul Pierce obliterated Ron Artest(notes). Rondo made dramatic, defining plays. The Lakers let down everywhere. This looked like 2008 again, looked like the manhandling that doomed the Lakers to a humiliating Finals loss in Boston.
When the game was truly lost, the Celtics scored on 12 of 13 possessions in the third quarter. All too easy, all impossible for Bryant to answer, even with what was the hottest hand in the game. He would go for 19 points in the third, and the degree of difficulty had Celtics coach Doc Rivers turning to his two assistants, Tom Thibodeau and Armond Hill, and saying simply, “Those are tough shots. … He’s making tough shots.”
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This was Rivers’ way of saying: What else can we do with him? Rivers could tell his players wanted to change the defense, wanted to start trapping Bryant, but he resisted. “It’s only two points each time he scores. Not 10,” Rivers said. The shots kept falling and Bryant kept burning for someone on the Lakers to start playing with him. The rest of them – save for Andrew Bynum, who’s playing in excruciating pain – can be so bendable on the road. The teeth of the Celtics’ defense can be beastly, and the rest of the Lakers wanted little to do with it.
Here’s what’s delicate now for these Lakers and what they have to fear as the Finals return to Los Angeles for Game 6 and perhaps Game 7. Just how fragile are they as a team? Privately, the Celtics believed a Game 5 victory would have Bryant tearing into his teammates, thrusting them back into shells when they needed to be strong.
The Celtics are playing for each other now, and it’s easy to see in so many ways. Just watch how Rondo reacted when Artest knocked Garnett to the floor with a hard foul. He walked up and shoved Artest back, absorbing a technical foul but letting K.G. – and the Lakers – know that he had his back.
Everyone wonders how Bryant goes about these next hours until Game 6 at the Staples Center. On the eve of Game 1, Bryant told me how the development of these Lakers, their growth, allowed him to channel his aggression, his time, into his own game. Two years ago, Bryant said, the Lakers weren’t good enough to beat the Celtics. He hated losing to them, but he could live with it. This one, he’ll take to his grave. This one, he’ll never get over.
Through the past two years, through the ’09 title over the Orlando Magic, the Lakers had become largely self-sufficient. Bryant no longer needed to rail so hard. Now, falling down to the Celtics 3-2, you wonder how much has changed, how much Bryant must do in Games 6 and 7 to win his fifth championship.
The idea of this moment becoming too enormous for the Lakers troubles him. “Just man up and play,” Bryant sniffed. “What’s the big deal? If I have to say something to them, then we don’t deserve to be champions.”
The big deal is unmistakable: The Lakers need to get tougher, stronger and smarter to beat Boston. Yes, they’ve regressed, Bryant confessed. Milk-carton defense, he called it. For that to happen this deep into the Finals, against this team, it was downright disconcerting to the best player on the planet. He was walking toward the bus Sunday night, on his way out of the Garden and back to L.A. for Game 6, trying to come back on a championship series, on a Celtics franchise that has been the bane of these Lakers for 50 years.
All that screaming in the locker room, all that angst over a Game 5 that felt like ’08 again, and Bryant stopped walking and stood for a moment. He had to start building back these Lakers, building back the fragility of a defending champion on the brink of elimination.
His eyes narrowed now, his lips stiffened, and Kobe Bryant would say late in this chase for a back-to-back championship, “Listen, if you told me at the beginning of the year that we’ve got two games at home to win a championship, yeah, I’ll take that [bleep].”
Two games in Staples Center and two final chances for Bryant’s wrath to deliver these Los Angeles Lakers an epic NBA title. All the cursing, all the screaming, was finally done as Bryant walked calmly, quietly to the purring bus.
His words still hung inside the Garden, though. Still loomed over these Lakers. Someone has to make a stand with Kobe Bryant. Someone has to fight to save a championship season.
LOS ANGELES (AP)—So the Celtics want to play rough again? Kobe Bryant(notes) and the Lakers look ready this time around, and they barged into an early lead in the NBA finals.
Bryant scored 30 points, Pau Gasol(notes) had 23 points and 14 rebounds, and defending champion Los Angeles got tough in a 102-89 victory over Boston in the
NBA finals opener Thursday night.
Ron Artest(notes) scored 15 points after tumbling to the ground in a tangle withPaul Pierce(notes) in the opening minute of the 12th finals meeting in the NBA’s most scintillating rivalry. Bryant and Gasol then led a gritty physical effort
against the Celtics, who memorably pushed around the Lakers while winning their 2008 finals matchup in six games.
“They were the more physical team by far,” Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. “They were more aggressive. They attacked us the entire night. I didn’t think we handled it very well.”
Pierce scored 24 points and Kevin Garnett(notes) added 16 after a slow start for the Celtics, who might not want to know Lakers coach Phil Jackson’s teams in Los Angeles and Chicago have won 47 straight playoff series after winning Game 1.
“I wish I had put it in the bank, so to speak,” said Jackson, the 10-time champion. “We’ve got to play this out. … Our defense stiffened at various points in the game, was very effective. We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us, but it’s nice to know that (the 47-0 streak) is on our side.”
Game 2 is Sunday night at Staples Center.
If the first 48 minutes of the rematch are any indication, this series again will be a knockdown, drag-out physical confrontation—and the supposedly finesse-oriented Lakers held their ground early.
Ray Allen(notes) scored 12 points in just 27 minutes, saddled with constant foul trouble while trying to guard Bryant. Pierce also picked up early fouls, while Garnett simply struggled, going 7 for 16 from the field and grabbing just four rebounds—even inexplicably missing an open layup with 5 1/2 minutes to play.
That’s mostly because of Gasol, the Spanish 7-footer determined to assert himself after admittedly getting pushed around by Garnett two years ago. Gasol capped a strong game by sprinting downcourt and catching a long pass in stride for a dunk with 6:21 to play.
“Pau played a big game tonight,” Jackson said. “I thought they did a good job on him in the post, but his movement and his activity was important.”
This one was rough from the opening tumble.
Just 27 seconds in, Artest and Pierce got double technical fouls after crashing to the court back-to-back with elbows locked. The mood didn’t improve much in a game featuring 54 fouls, but Bryant’s playmaking and the Lakers’ inside advantages drove them to a 20-point lead after three quarters before surviving Boston’s final run.
“You can’t ease into the game, espeically in the finals,” Pierce said. “That’s one of the better rebounding teams in the NBA. We’ve just got to do a better job rebounding the ball, eliminating easy opportunities. When I look up and we’ve given up 100 points, I haven’t seen that in a while.”
Los Angeles outrebounded the Celtics 42-31 and put up a strong shooting percentage until a fourth-quarter slump, again excelling at the their two biggest areas of strength in this postseason.
Andrew Bynum(notes) scored 10 points on his injured right knee as the Lakers improved to 9-0 at home in the playoffs, with 12 straight postseason home wins dating to last year’s championship run.
Rajon Rondo(notes) had 13 points—just three in the second half—and eight assists as Boston went 1 for 10 on 3-pointers, but forced 15 turnovers with active hands in passing lanes.
Bryant scored just four points in the fourth quarter, but hit a 3-pointer in the final seconds. He added seven rebounds and six assists in his 12th 30-point game of the postseason.
Pierce and Artest set a resonant tone for the first quarter, which featured 18 personal fouls and 20 free throws, 12 by Boston. The Lakers took a 50-41 halftime lead, but Rondo kept the Lakers close with 10 points, including a buzzer-beating jumper.
Los Angeles took charge in the final minutes of the third quarter, when Bryant led an 11-2 run to an 84-64 lead heading into the fourth. Boston swiftly sliced that lead with a 10-1 run in the first four minutes, but the Lakers kept their lead in double digits throughout the fourth.
Boston had homecourt advantage in the clubs’ 2008 meeting, but these Celtics will have to win at least once at Staples Center, where the Lakers have won 12 straight playoff games since last season’s Western Conference finals.
The arena was packed well before the opening tip for the Lakers’ third straight appearance in the NBA finals, and several thousand fans actually deigned to put on the giveaway gold T-shirts handed out by the team. The T-shirt stunt failed miserably the past two times Los Angeles tried it in the playoffs.
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Ron Artest(notes) scored 15 points after tumbling to the ground in a tangle with Paul Pierce(notes) in the opening minute of the 12th finals meeting in the NBA’s most scintillating rivalry. Bryant and Gasol then led a gritty physical effort against the Celtics, who memorably pushed around the Lakers while winning their 2008 finals matchup in six games.
“They were the more physical team by far,” Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. “They were more aggressive. They attacked us the entire night. I didn’t think we handled it very well.”
Pierce scored 24 points and Kevin Garnett(notes) added 16 after a slow start for the Celtics, who might not want to know Lakers coach Phil Jackson’s teams in Los Angeles and Chicago have won 47 straight playoff series after winning Game 1.
“I wish I had put it in the bank, so to speak,” said Jackson, the 10-time champion. “We’ve got to play this out. … Our defense stiffened at various points in the game, was very effective. We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us, but it’s nice to know that (the 47-0 streak) is on our side.”
Game 2 is Sunday night at Staples Center.
If the first 48 minutes of the rematch are any indication, this series again will be a knockdown, drag-out physical confrontation—and the supposedly finesse-oriented Lakers held their ground early.
Ray Allen(notes) scored 12 points in just 27 minutes, saddled with constant foul trouble while trying to guard Bryant. Pierce also picked up early fouls, while Garnett simply struggled, going 7 for 16 from the field and grabbing just four rebounds—even inexplicably missing an open layup with 5 1/2 minutes to play.
That’s mostly because of Gasol, the Spanish 7-footer determined to assert himself after admittedly getting pushed around by Garnett two years ago. Gasol capped a strong game by sprinting downcourt and catching a long pass in stride for a dunk with 6:21 to play.
“Pau played a big game tonight,” Jackson said. “I thought they did a good job on him in the post, but his movement and his activity was important.”
This one was rough from the opening tumble.
Just 27 seconds in, Artest and Pierce got double technical fouls after crashing to the court back-to-back with elbows locked. The mood didn’t improve much in a game featuring 54 fouls, but Bryant’s playmaking and the Lakers’ inside advantages drove them to a 20-point lead after three quarters before surviving Boston’s final run.
“You can’t ease into the game, espeically in the finals,” Pierce said. “That’s one of the better rebounding teams in the NBA. We’ve just got to do a better job rebounding the ball, eliminating easy opportunities. When I look up and we’ve given up 100 points, I haven’t seen that in a while.”
Los Angeles outrebounded the Celtics 42-31 and put up a strong shooting percentage until a fourth-quarter slump, again excelling at the their two biggest areas of strength in this postseason.
Andrew Bynum(notes) scored 10 points on his injured right knee as the Lakers improved to 9-0 at home in the playoffs, with 12 straight postseason home wins dating to last year’s championship run.
Rajon Rondo(notes) had 13 points—just three in the second half—and eight assists as Boston went 1 for 10 on 3-pointers, but forced 15 turnovers with active hands in passing lanes.
Bryant scored just four points in the fourth quarter, but hit a 3-pointer in the final seconds. He added seven rebounds and six assists in his 12th 30-point game of the postseason.
Pierce and Artest set a resonant tone for the first quarter, which featured 18 personal fouls and 20 free throws, 12 by Boston. The Lakers took a 50-41 halftime lead, but Rondo kept the Lakers close with 10 points, including a buzzer-beating jumper.
Los Angeles took charge in the final minutes of the third quarter, when Bryant led an 11-2 run to an 84-64 lead heading into the fourth. Boston swiftly sliced that lead with a 10-1 run in the first four minutes, but the Lakers kept their lead in double digits throughout the fourth.
Boston had homecourt advantage in the clubs’ 2008 meeting, but these Celtics will have to win at least once at Staples Center, where the Lakers have won 12 straight playoff games since last season’s Western Conference finals.
The arena was packed well before the opening tip for the Lakers’ third straight appearance in the NBA finals, and several thousand fans actually deigned to put on the giveaway gold T-shirts handed out by the team. The T-shirt stunt failed miserably the past two times Los Angeles tried it in the playoffs.
NOTES: An entertaining jump ball occurred midway through the second quarter when 5-9 Nate Robinson(notes) tied up the 7-foot Gasol. The Spaniard won the tip. … Celtics C Kendrick Perkins(notes) didn’t get his seventh technical foul of the postseason, which will result in an automatic one-game suspension, but technical-foul legend Rasheed Wallace(notes) got one for arguing late in the third quarter. … Fans near courtside included Jerry West, Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron, David Duchovny, Will Ferrell, boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., Terrell Owens, Steven Spielberg, Snoop Dogg, Mike Epps and Hilary Swank. Chris Rock, David Spade, Kevin James and Adam Sandler sat together at courtside to promote their “Grown Ups” movie, opening in three weeks. … When the Staples Center trained its KissCam on Dustin Hoffman and his wife for their usual smooch, Hoffman instead turned the other way and kissed actor Jason Bateman.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP)—Nike can put those puppets back on the shelf for another summer. Basketball historians anticipating the real-life answers to a delicious theoretical debate must keep waiting.
LeBron is gone, from the playoffs and maybe from Cleveland. James’ long-anticipated NBA finals clash with Kobe Bryant(notes) is off again, and it’s now distinctly possible it will never happen.
Yet if Bryant was even slightly disappointed to learn that James won’t be showing up for a possible career-defining showdown, the Los Angeles Lakers star isn’t letting on.
Bryant had almost nothing to say Friday about the Cleveland Cavaliers’ playoff elimination, which ruined the best chance yet for a finals meeting with James.
“I don’t know,” Bryant said when asked what he thought of Boston’s Game 6 victory, before an awkward silence with the phalanx of television cameras and digital recorders pointed at him in a back corner of the Lakers’ training complex.
Surely Bryant realizes the anticipation was extra-high this spring, after the superstars’ teams finished atop their respective conferences with two of the NBA’s top three records. Nike certainly spent many months hoping for the showcase of two top clients, building that unusual advertising campaign around their puppet replicas.
But while James begins his offseason, Bryant is still standing—albeit on a gimpy ankle—after persevering through an injury-riddled year. The veteran star won’t slow down for the Western Conference finals just because King James isn’t waiting on the other side.
The series against the Phoenix Suns begins Monday night in Los Angeles.
“We have a huge challenge on our hands with the things that they run and how they play,” Bryant said. “You have to control the pace and control the turnovers.”
Bryant didn’t practice again for the Lakers, giving him four straight days off the court following their second-round sweep of the Utah Jazz. Bryant needs every possible minute to rest his troublesome ankle, his arthritic finger and a few other maladies that have turned this season into a grind.
Bryant is expected back in practice Saturday along with center Andrew Bynum(notes), who also had four days off to lower the swelling in his injured knee.
Bryant’s teammates were a bit less guarded with their opinions on the seismic shift in the Eastern Conference following the Cavs’ ouster, with Lamar Odom(notes) and Pau Gasol(notes) both expressing surprise at the result. The East final now matches the Lakers’ last two opponents in the NBA finals.
“It’s a little surprising, but obviously Boston has raised their level from the regular season,” Gasol said. “We know they’re a good team that’s capable of doing that, and Cleveland is out.”
Gasol also had a more practical interest: Cleveland would have had home court advantage in an NBA finals meeting after finishing with the league’s best regular-season record. Orlando also won two more games than the Lakers in the regular season.
“It’s good, because if you have to want to play someone in the finals, you want to have the home court advantage,” Gasol said. “I guess it’s good that one of the teams is out, but we still have to focus on getting there first.”
For that, they’ll need Bryant’s best efforts against the high-scoring Suns and their improved defense. Bryant has scored at least 30 points in five straight playoff games, making more than 52 percent of his shots against Utah.
Although he rarely acknowledges it in words, Bryant has always seemed to bristle at the suggestion that his basketball pre-eminence is linked to anybody else.
His partnership with Shaquille O’Neal(notes) produced three straight championships and four NBA finals trips in its final five years, yet concluded with Shaq’s abrupt departure amid widespread belief Bryant wanted to be the Lakers’ lone superstar.
Bryant’s teammates believe those titles, along with the ring he won last summer with a near-replica of his current team, will be the biggest difference between Bryant and James until LeBron puts a few pieces of jewelry on his ringless hand.
“Kobe doesn’t have to compare himself to anybody,” said Lakers guard Derek Fisher(notes), also a four-time champion. “Everybody on our team knows what he means to this team and this game of basketball. That kind of speculation isn’t anything real.”
MY word VS Yours I am a die-hard Laker fan so you know I’m always gonna ride with Kobe but this is simply what separates Kobe from Lebron and the rest of the pack. Kobe is a winner, a killer on the court Lebron James has yet to develop those instincts
Kobe Bryant (The best basketball player since Michael Jordan) did a very interesting photo shoot to cover his article in The LA Times magazine. It has been the topic of conversation and the bud of the jokes today on blog sites and gossip sites especially the ones that do not like Kobe. Here is the interview and the photo shoot
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Check out what orlando magic Forward Matt Barnes had to say about Kobe Bryant (after a win no less)
“Throughout the game he elbowed me three times and if I did that to him I would’ve been kicked out of the game,” Barnes said. “Playing physical is fine, but if he’s going to throw elbows I’m not just going to let him do it. You know, he has other advantage in the world, not to mention being the greatest player in the world, so if you let him get the mental, if you let him mentally get you, you don’t have a chance.”
The Lakers had varied reactions to Barnes’ play yesterday in Orlando’s 96-94 win. Bryant scored 34 points and took 30 shots.
Kobe Bryant just giggled when asked about Barnes, said he liked that better than if Barnes had rolled over and added “him bumping me and Kenyon Martin bumping me are two different things.” Lamar Odom called Barnes a “monkey,” an “action figure” and said he needed a “cape and tights.”
“Yeah I heard about that this morning,” Barnes said of Odom’s comments. “I’m not going to sit up here and get into a name-calling battle with someone. the lakers are where we want to be. If that’s what you do when you’re at the top, that’s what you do. Talk [expletive]. Don’t matter, we’re just trying to get there. They got the ring. We’re going to be there at the end.”
None of this was about disrespecting Bryant’s game, of course. Barnes stressed that despite this Bryant scored 34 point and nearly won the game for the Lakers. Barnes said Kobe is the best player in the world, better than LeBron James.
“Best player in the world,” Barnes said. “Kobe’s a killer. He’s got that killer instinct. You see him last night, if his foot wasn’t on the line, it could’ve been a different game. I was on him both those threes. He’s got that killer instinct. He’s got four rings. He’s the best player. I wasn’t trying to get in his head at all. Just you’re not going to throw elbows at me.
“Gasol takes a swing at Dwight. If we do that kind of stuff, we get kicked out. Dwight throws elbows, he’s kicked out of the game, suspended. it is what it is. They’re just not going to come in here and punk us. He’s the best player. It comes with the territory. He’s earned what he’s got up to the point. gets to do what he wants.”
I rest my case again so far 7 analyst and players have been asked that same question who is better Kobe or Lebron and only Charles Barkley has said Lebron and 6 analyst and players have said Kobe Bryant
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