Smack / Jun 15, 2009 / 2:47 am
Purple Reign: Lakers win NBA title, Kobe Bryant gets Finals MVP
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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