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Andrew and D are joined by Chris Manning (LD2k) to talk about the offseason so far, the true meaning of the Olympic Basketball and the newest member of the NBA: the Oklahoma City… ?!
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Las Vegas Sun: Kobe Bryant leaves the Thomas & Mack Center court after a FIBA Americas basketball game and speaks Spanish to his wife, Vanessa, whom he calls Mamacita, and two young daughters.
In Italian, he instructs his kids to begin eating, mangia, and playfully cusses out U.S. national team assistant coach Mike D’Antoni. He writes in Latin on his Web site. From his Lakers teammates, he’s learning French (Ronny Turiaf) and Serbian (Vladimir Radmanovic and Sasha Vujacic).
He picked up some Portuguese from Ronaldinho, the famous FC Barcelona soccer player whom Bryant has befriended and watched, as one of 100,000 fans, at the Nou Camp Stadium in Spain.
Bryant brings an arsenal of talent to the U.S. national team as it seeks to end an embarrassing stretch on the global stage at the Olympics in China next month.
He also brings something intangible to an American squad that has underestimated recent opponents and paid a heavy price for those blunders. For the first time, the United States has not played in the championship game of three consecutive international tournaments.
Bryant has a curiosity about the world, formed growing up in Italy, that teammates who have been embarrassed by Greece and Argentina don’t comprehend.
This is awesome. I added some pictures (click more to read the entire post). Back 2 The Future + Kobe = Nike McFlys…
Gizmodo: As you already know, today was the launch of the limited-edition Marty McFly-inspired Nike Hyperdunk sneakers.
350 pairs were sold almost instantly (some are now for sale in eBay for as much as $2,000), a hundred of them at the UNDFTD shop in Santa Monica, where L.A. Lakers’ megastar Kobe Bryant arrived in a DeLorean time machine to be greeted by hundred of fans, some of them camping outside for more than 24 hours.
Seriously, I’m a Back to the Future fan too, but what kind of obsessed fanboy can wait for more than 24 hours for a stupid piece of merchandise? Ah… hrmmm. OK, nevermind.
Sounds like there is mutual respect on both sides. I would, once again, LOVE to have James Posey on this Lakers squad…
Hoopsworld: Sources close to the situation contend James Posey would love to be a Laker and that the Lakers are willing to go the full exception to land him.
Now before you begin reading this, I am not an NBA analyst and do not completely understand how the cap works. I will try to keep it somewhat short as I try to go through the Lakers current situation and possible future plans for the off-season.
Currently, for the next season 2008-9, the Lakers owe the following players as follows -
Kobe Bryant - $21.26 million Pau Gasol - $15.08 million Lamar Odom - $14.6 million Vladimir Radmanovic - $6.05 million Derek Fisher - $4.7 million Luke Walton - $4.42 million Trevor Ariza - $2.91 million Andrew Bynum - $2.77 million Chris Mihm - $2.50 million Jordan Farmar - $1.08 million
Recently, 82games.com wrote up an insane article on how they believe it was NOT fixed at all. They analyze many angles of the games, calls and consistency through the refs. If you’re interested, definitely check it out. Very cool and intellectual stuff! Click on the link below to check it out:
Interesting stuff. Sounds like the Lakers will potentially make a move for Artest…
InsideSocal: The Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets and Miami Heat are expected to be among the teams interested in obtaining Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings once the NBA’s dead period ends July 9. Kings general manager Geoff Petrie figures to receive plenty of calls about Artest and his expiring $7.4 millon contract, according to the Sacramento Bee newspaper. No reason to think Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak won’t call, too.
Jordan Farmar is going to head out of the USA to put on basketball clinics for kids! Great stuff…
KoreaTimes: Los Angeles Lakers guard Jordan Farmar is scheduled to meet fans and put on a basketball clinic to teach skills and share tips on how to become a better player.
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