It’s a great day for Georgia Tech and Texas. The slept-on Yellow Jackets get their high-energy, athletic power forward back from the brink of the NBA Draft. Gani Lawal decided to withdraw his name to go back to Atlanta for a chance at doing serious damage in the ACC alongside Derrick Favors.
And Texas is getting another possible first-rounder back. Damion James will return to Austin instead of going towards the bottom of the first round. He makes UT the class of the Big 12, and a real Final Four contender next year.
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“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
For the sake of the Orlando Magic and maybe the center position in general, hopefully Dwight Howard takes that lesson from his NBA Finals counterpart Andrew Bynum‘s hired mentor and uses it to continue on that path he’s on to become the most (or second-most) dominant player in the League. Read More »
Late last night, after hearing yet another TV analyst talk about Kobe Bryant‘s “drive” and “competitiveness” and “will to win” the same way you’d talk about a woman’s features, I wondered when we started defining our greatest athletes with intangible terms we can’t even define.
Nevermind the ring count: This is how Kobe has truly set himself apart from Shaq. Read More »
Hedo Turkoglu‘s agent Lon Babby told the Orlando Sentinel that his guy is planning on opting out of the final year of his contract because interest for the 6-10 forward will be “robust.” That, of course, is code for “Hedo is going to get PAID.”
And why wouldn’t he? He’s built a rep as a big shot taker/maker who can score from all over the floor and for a guy who supposedly plays no D, it looked like he was frustrating Kobe whenever he was matched up on him. Read More »
So far, we know the top level of the 2010 free agent class — LeBron, D-Wade, Bosh, Nowitzki, Amar’e — will be taking a long look at New York and all the money and mass appeal the city has to offer, even if the team still stinks by then. We know Miami, one of the NBA’s other destination cities, will be in the mix. We know Detroit is setting itself up to be a major player in the bidding.
Now we may have to add Boston to the mix. Read More »
Check out the new Puppets 4 Rings and Carpe Diem T-Shirts by Nike to celebrate 4th NBA championship for Kobe with the Lakers. We’re going to have a bunch in the office sometime this week and wanted to share the wealth with our readers.
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Everyone who worries that Shaq will be a bulldog in his elder years, refusing to admit that he’s no longer the Sheriff, should take a peek at what he tweeted after the Lakers took the ‘chip last night. He congratulated everyone that he has a relationship with on his former squad. But most importantly, he gave Kobe the respect that he deserves – and poked fun at himself too.
“Congratualtions kobe, u deserve it. You played great . Enjoy it my man enjoy it. And I know what yur sayin rt now “Shaq how my ass taste ”
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It’s definitely the signature bucket of his fourth ‘chip and this NBA Finals. At the 1:45 mark, Kobe hung in the air forever, switched hands, deked Dwight with a ball fake, switched back, and then still kissed it perfectly off the glass. That move trumps his buzzer-beater over Raja Bell, his healthy helping of circus shots during the 81-point game, and everything on the “Kobe Top 10 Dunks & Moves” clip below.
It wouldn’t have even made sense for Kobe Bryant to put the finishing touches on the (so far) defining championship of his NBA career without having his own Jordan-esque moment. Midway through the third quarter of the Lakers’ Game 5 blowout in Orlando, Kobe took off on the right side of the lane, glided to the left side, and along the way threw some mid-air shakes on Dwight Howard and banked in a fallaway jumper over the big man’s outstretched fingers before hitting the ground on his backside and sliding into immortality. Just too smooth, and ranking just ahead of the baseline tomahawk dunk in the first half as the play from Kobe’s fourth championship that you’ll see replayed over and over and over again. Read More »
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