It hasn’t been exactly the best of seasons for Kobe Bryant when it comes to proving his “clutchness”, but things are changing. He’s hitting his best form of the season at the perfect time, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a .500 record for the first time since the final game of the previous calendar year. More
There were a lot of special things Kobe Bryant did as the Los Angeles Lakers finally reached .500, beating the Atlanta Hawks 99-98, but dunking on the face of Josh Smith after being hounded by him on the possession has to be the most memorable of the night. More
No chance Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers reach the postseason? Well, if they keep winning the games they should (against the teams below them) and stop folding every time they face some sort of challenge, than maybe being only two games behind the Houston Rockets will be easier to bridge than what it looks like. More
Even with Kobe Bryant playing his best basketball of the season, the Los Angeles Lakers are from over, and their attempts to make a playoff push in the final third of the NBA season keeps hitting roadblocks in the form of better teams, this time the Denver Nuggets. More
The most important thing about getting angry as an athlete is venting it in the right direction. The Los Angeles Lakers need a focused, balanced Kobe Bryant if they’re to make it into the playoffs, which is still reachable after 3 straight wins, and an incredible individual display by a player Mark Cuban suggested the Lakers should amnesty. More
Despite everything that’s happened, the Los Angeles Lakers are still gunning for the playoffs, not breaking up their team. For once, Kobe Bryant not thinking about passing worked well, while Dwight Howard with another impressive performance shows it was a wise choice to keep him. More
Sports, somehow, are always filled with symbolism. So on the night the Los Angeles Lakers remembered Jerry Buss, they also had to play their historic rival, the Boston Celtics, and just so happened to get a very good game out of Dwight Howard, while all the trade talk around him just refuses to die down. More
How happy is Kobe Bryant right now? Probably not too much, with the whole Lakers missing the playoffs thing, not to mention the whole Dwight Howard issue – to trade or not to trade, with reports suggesting Bryant wouldn’t mind the man labeled as the future of the franchise being sent somewhere else. More
With two months and somewhere between 30-25 games left to play for the teams, there’s plenty to look forward to in what’s left of the NBA season, including the MVP battle between Kevin Durant and LeBron James, the whole Los Angeles Lakers saga with time running against them, who emerges from the East to challenge the Miami Heat and more. More
If the pace and rate of scoring doesn’t make a drastic change in the next couple of months, despite the fantastic seasons of Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James, the NBA will have the fewest number of 20-point-per-game scorers in nearly 50 years. More