Good to know the NBA is promoting their Superstar with a page with pretty much all the cool media and information you’ll ever want want to know about the Mamba. Check it out!
NBA: On the left side of the page you’ll find links to our coverage of his days in the NBA and on the right side you’ll find a collection of photo galleries featuring Mamba, followed by a vast array of video highlights documenting his career.
There’s plenty to feast your eyes on, so you might want to exercise your mouse hand before click your way through Kobe’s career. You could be here for a while.
I fancy myself a lover of independent music. You know the type: whiny, literate, geeky dudes with jangly guitars and ill-fitting cardigans. The bittersweet truth of the current state of the ol’ indie rock is that it seems that every so often one of these bands breaks through. The secret gets out and all of the sudden you can buy the new Bright Eyes record at Target right next to Toby Keith and the Eagles Greatest Hits.
My first experience with this situation came in the autumn of 1995. My copy of No Doubt’s now legendary album Tragic Kingdom arrived at the local record shop. Six months later, No Doubt were megastars and I was the jerk trying to say, “I was first” to all my 8-year-old peers who could not get enough of that sublime album. That record was my little second grade secret miracle.
Apply this same scenario to movies, (Juno), comedians (Brian Regan) hot-actresses du jour (I had the BIGGEST crush on Scarlett Johansson when she appeared in Home Alone 3!).
Once the secret is out, it is out. And there is no way to hold onto the days when it was yours.
ESPN: I have some good news and some bad news for you.
The good news? We’re one more Boston victory away from an improbable Celtics-Lakers matchup in the NBA Finals that, under normal circumstances, would have me so giddy I’d be walking around Los Angeles randomly re-enacting the McHale-Rambis clothesline on unsuspecting pedestrians.
The bad news? Nobody is beating the Lakers this season. Not Boston, not Detroit, not anybody. They have the best team, the best player and a Hall of Fame coach. It’s really that simple.
Now here’s where you shake your head and say, “You’re just trying to do another reverse jinx like that column about how Kevin Garnett isn’t clutch.” Fair point. That column was written for two reasons — because I thought it was an interesting debate (is clutchness in our DNA or do we acquire it through repetition?), and because I was aiming for a reverse jinx that partially absolved me for blowing an undefeated Patriots season four months ago. This is different. The Lakers clearly have a better team. I believed this to be true before the playoffs and haven’t seen anything to change my mind; if anything, the first three rounds confirmed the chasm between the two teams was even larger than anyone believed. Even with homecourt advantage in the Finals, the Celtics will still be underdogs against the Lakers. And they should be.
After 21 long years, the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics will meet again in the NBA Finals.
The greatest rivalry in basketball will be reborn.
The Celtics are in the NBA finals for the first since losing to the Lakers in 1987, the third meeting in a four-year span. The Lakers and the Celtics have met a total of 10 times in the NBA finals, with Boston winning the first eight meetings, and Los Angeles the last two. Los Angeles has made the Finals 29 times, Boston has made it 20 times.
The Boston Celtics swept LA 2-0 in the regular season. The key here is that Pau Gasol played for Memphis while both those games were played. This is a new look Lakers team.
Game 1 of the 2008 NBA Finals will be played in Boston on Thursday.
This is really funny. I remember a guy next to me after Sasha hit the 3 at the buzzer (which was technically bad form) say that he hit the spread. Well, I didn’t realize it at the time but check this out:
CNBC.com: So I called R.J. Bell of Pregame.com who is really good at number crunching, to ask him how much Vujacic cost those that took the Spurs. Bell said that, from looking at betting data he had access to, that 66 percent of people took the Spurs and the 7.5 points or 8 points.
Bell estimates that the game did about $3 million in bets in Las Vegas, but he estimates that worldwide, the game did about $300 million in action. Bell said that, when considering the line move, that shot swung at least $100 million in bets.
Yes, that’s right. Indeed we do. Close out your series against Detroit tonight and the “epic war” shall begin. If you’re a true Boston fan, you’re salivating at this thought… if you’re a true Lakers fan, you are absolutely rootin’ for Boston tonight…
I was lucky enough to be apart of the magic last night. During the ending stretch of the 4th – after Kobe had twisted the knife in the Spurs – myself and other fans started chanting, “we want Boston.”
Andrew Bynum was interviewed by AM570. Bynum talks about his knee, his progress and, of course, the Lakers heading to the finals. Bynum also had some bold statements about our very own big 3.
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