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Only Michael Jordan Can Beat What Kobe Bryant is Doing This Season
You don’t have to like Kobe Bryant as a person or as a player to appreciate his incredible 2012-2013 NBA season, which is extremely special considering it’s his 17th NBA season, while playing more than all but four other players around the league. Only Michael Jordan has done this well, not to mention better, at the age of 34 while still playing so much every night.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Finishes What Pau Gasol Started
For about three quarters, the Los Angeles Lakers looked to Pau Gasol to keep them in the game and in the playoff picture. Once the fourth quarter began, so did Kobe Bryant, who saved his best for last, hopefully serving as some sort of metaphor for a season that might end up not being as disappointing as it looked to be heading towards earlier in the year.
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Playing 3000 Minutes Means no NBA Championship
To win an NBA title, apparently, you need your star player to clock in less than 3000 minutes a season, as the meaning of an NBA minute has changed over the years, becoming more physically taxing as time goes by, which might mean player like Kevin Durant or Kobe Bryant (who might not even make the postseason) need to take a rest before this season is over.
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Los Angeles Lakers – What Needs to Happen so They Can Make the Playoffs
After three straight wins, the Los Angeles Lakers lost to their little sister who are the better team for the last couple of seasons, and find themselves back on the losing end of a race for the last ticket to the NBA playoffs. Despite what some call a chance in their philosophy and approach, it seems that the things that will decide if they finish in the final 8 is the effort they put in on defense and how much Kobe Bryant trusts his teammates offensively.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant & Pau Gasol Dominate Like It’s the Finals
While the chances of the Los Angeles Lakers making the NBA finals for a fourth time in the Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol are very slim, the duo are still able to dominant games while keeping the last spot in the race for the playoffs alive, while the shorthanded roster barely manages to put enough players on the court.
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Best NBA Players in the Clutch This Season
While LeBron James may not score more than some others in clutch situations, the fact that the Miami Heat are by far the best team in the NBA on both offense and defense, outscoring opponents by 32 points per 100 possessions in the final minutes of close games, more than double the pace-adjusted margin of the second-ranked team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, with a positive margin of 13.8 points per 100 possessions in clutch situations.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Leaving Everything He Has on the Court
For the Los Angeles Lakers to make the NBA playoffs, it’s going to take more than close calls and help from the refs. It’s going to take, apparently, Kobe Bryant not resting for more than a minute or two each game, while sticking to the game-plan of actually giving up shots to provide for others, while hoping that Dwight Howard continues to make free throws as his defense manages to cover the holes the rest of his teammates leave him to handle.
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Los Angeles Lakers – The 2013 NBA Playoffs Conspiracy
No one really believes and trusts the NBA officials, or the league itself, with David Stern sitting on top of the mountain. When you see the kind of calls the Los Angeles Lakers have been getting or getting away with in recent games as they attempt to make the final spot into the NBA playoffs, you can’t help to think that there’s some foul play involved, or at least wouldn’t be surprised to hear about something along those lines going on.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Breaks Records While Being Awful
The most important thing? The Los Angeles Lakers won another game, on the road of all places, to stay in the race for the final ticket the NBA has to offer in the Western playoffs. Things of less importance all have to do with Kobe Bryant, not resting a single minute, moving up the NBA’s all time scoring list, shooting terribly from the field while posting assist numbers to make us think he’s a “team” player.
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Kobe Bryant Moves to Fourth on All-Time Scoring List
With 30 points in a much needed win for the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant moved up another spot on the NBA’s all-time scoring list, surpassing Wilt Chamberlain and ending up, for now, with 31,415 points, leaving him behind only Michael Jordan, Karl Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.