For some NBA fans, to ask whether Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant is "overrated" as a basketball player would be similar to asking music fans whether the Beatles were overrated as rock group, or J...
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Kobe can beat this guy
Kobe Bryant was hanging around in New York last week as part of the World Basketball Festival festivities and, upon praising Team Spain, was dutifully quoted by Spain-based spor...
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Bibby, Christie, Stojakovic, Webber and Divac; they were the faces of a franchise. They finally put a face to an otherwise aimless team with no identity. They truly were among the elite and amounted t...
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NBA Primetime’s Brandon Ribak breaks down the 2010 NBA Power Rankings into two parts. This article focuses on the top 8 teams that will make the playoffs out of the Western Conference. For a look at t...
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Keep in mind grading scales are for what teams accomplished individually. Some teams may have made very minor moves that fit their system perfectly while other teams may have made overpaid major moves...
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Forget about Mayweather versus Pacquiao, Bryant versus Bell is a bitter rivalry at its best. It’s a battle that transcends the players. It’s offense versus defense at its best. It’s gritty one-o...
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4. Injuries I’ve twisted my ankle about 20 times playing basketball. Injuries are apart of the game, plain and simple. You work around them. For the most part, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan have av.....
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Yes I said it! And before you Jordan buffs get your panties in bunch, understand my stance is mine alone and in no way shape or form am I advocating a colossal shift from conventional wisdom. This is ...
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BallinEurope promised you superstars for this five-pack in The 35 Greatest Basketball YouTubes of All-Time: Are you ready for M.J. and a lotta other studs? If so, you’re in for a treat from BiE TV t.....
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CBS’s Ken Berger broke news yesterday reporting that Chris Paul “wants out” of New Orleans. “He wants to play with another superstar. He wants to follow LeBron’s model of...
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It’s a dream dreamt by every follower of Italian basketball, not to mention all of us refugees of Los Angeles Lakers fandom in Europe: the fantasy that longtime Northern Italy resident Kobe Bryant m.....
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Everybody supposedly gets everything they deserve and so, at last, did Kobe Bryant.
That's for better and worse. His excesses and mistakes were pure Kobe, as was the disconnect with the media.
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Kobe Bryant wants to win this NBA championship.
Anyone who fails to realize that can’t read body language because, at this moment, Bryant’s body is using terms we simply aren’t permitted to use her...
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The statue outside isn't threatening to Kobe Bryant.
Magic Johnson is a friend, for starters, not to mention a trailblazer whose place in Lakers lore stood alone long before it was immortalized on ...
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he Lakers will repeat as champions Thursday night because of better talent, home court and Kobe Bryant.
It’s that simple, so rudimentary that it requires no explanation.
When you sift through th...
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In 1969, the Boston Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in an NBA Finals series that went seven games. Lakers guard and 14-time All-Star Jerry West was named the NBA Finals MVP — in defeat. It w...
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