Archive for June, 2009

This one goes out to all of you who make fun of Kobe’s mean mug. This one goes out to all of you who claim Phil Jackson is nothing more than lucky. This one goes out to all of you who talk trash on Lamar Odom’s pimptacular sense of style. This one goes out to all of you who make non-stop Kobe rape jokes. (Even though he was never found guilty, and the accuser was an American Idol reject and star****er — according to those who knew her, in high school she talked incessantly about wanting to become famous — [...]

ESPN’s Bill Simmons doesn’t deserve his job.  Yes, I’m making that claim as clearly as possible.  Take a look at his article titled “Take a retro look at Game 2” in which he keeps a “Live Diary” of the fourth quarter of game 2 by re-watching it after it happened. This man is being paid to write this garbage for ESPN, not the Orlando Magic website.  If this were an Orlando blog, I might not give it a second thought.  This is ESPN, though.  Since when did ESPN allow its writers to take on complete (and stated) bias and clearly [...]

Bloggers from multiple FanSided.com sites will partake in this chat during the game. Should be a blast. Feel free to join us — the more the merrier. Go Lakers! NBA Finals Game 2 – Magic at Lakers

By now you’ve all heard the “Kobe Bryant” track Lil Wayne did to honor Kobe’s sixth trip to the Finals. Now, two students from Stanford — Abteen Bagheri-Fard and Jay Kilachand — have turned the song into a music video masterpiece. Check it out (from Hoops Doctors)…

You know how sometimes kids inherit a new stepbrother who stays under the same roof? Well, now imagine if that stepbrother was a worthless bastard, the new laughingstock of the family. That, Lakers fans, is the situation when it comes to our NBA stepbrother — the Los Angeles Clippers. And now, our parent network, the FanSided.com Sports Network, has added a Clippers blog — Fully Clips. With the Clippers winning the No. 1 pick in this month’s draft, they will be the most relevant L.A. sports franchise for about 30 days after our Lakers win the title. After that, it’ll [...]

If Cleveland wasn’t miserable enough after renewing its claim to the nickname “The Mistake on the Lake” with the Cavs’ chokejob, how do they feel now that others are rubbing salt in their wounds? Sorry, LeBron. Sorry, Cleveland sports fans. It isn’t your fault, but this is funny. Can you imagine what the Kobe Haters would have put together had the Lakers lost? Thankfully, that isn’t going to happen. The Magic are like the new Jay-Z song “D.O.A.” — expect it was them, not Autotune, that was dead on arrival. (from King James Gospel)…

After his playoff performance this year, how could you disagree?

Jerry West, widely recognized as the greatest basketball GM of all time, recently said LeBron James has “surpassed” Kobe Bryant as a player. Bill Simmons, the famous sportswriter who is currently campaigning to be the new T-Wolves GM, says Kobe is past his prime. Maybe West is retired for a reason. Maybe Simmons should stick to his day job. And maybe I’m the one who should be a GM, because I’ve been saying that not only is Kobe not past his prime, but that he’s also still the best hooper in the world all season long. Last night, Kobe gave [...]

Driving in my car today, I had an epiphany. Outside of Lakers nation, the rest of the NBA is never going to give Kobe Bryant the full recognition he deserves. Never going to happen. Never. Ever. Eva. For years now I’ve heard, “he can’t win a ring without Shaq” or “let’s see him win one when he’s the best player on his team.” Now that Kobe is about to win his fourth championship (listen to Lil Wayne wax poetic about that here), we should just go ahead and cue the next slew of asinine excuses not to give the man [...]

Kobe Bryant. This is a given, so I figured I’d get it out of the way. The man is a winner. Unlike Lebron, though, he’s a winner surrounded by other winners. That makes for a winning team. Lamar Odom. Lamar is one of those guys who is not built like the average player. His abilities don’t make sense for his body type, and he uses that to exploit defenses in ways they’ve never seen from someone who can also cover a 7 footer on defense. Orlando lives AND dies by the three-pointer. L.A. has been pretty beaten up by the [...]