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Los Angeles Lakers – Can’t Escape a Losing Record
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.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Still Fueled By Anger
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.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant & Dwight Howard Don’t Have to Like Each Other
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.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Dwight Howard Takes Advantage of Emotional Night
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.
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Kobe Bryant is Still Shooting Way Too Much
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.
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NBA Story Lines to Follow Until the Playoffs
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.
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NBA Scorers a Dying Breed
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.
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LeBron James Has Bigger Fish to Fry This NBA Season
The All-Star game? A forgotten memory. When you’re the reigning NBA Champion, MVP and Finals’ MVP, not scoring in the fourth quarter of the All-Star game while getting blocked twice by Kobe Bryant seems meaningless and insignificant, especially when you’re LeBron James.
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NBA All-Star Game Outcome Doesn’t Change
The West don’t always have the better starting lineup, but they usually have the much deeper team (and conference), which explains why they’ve beaten the East three times in a row in the NBA All-Star game, as Chris Paul dominated the start and finish, beating the too serious Kevin Durant for the MVP award, while LeBron James seemed to be trying a bit too hard to make this one mean something.
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Michael Jordan Won’t Be the Greatest of All Time Forever
Before Michael Jordan, there were Magic Johnson, and Oscar Robertson and Wilt Chamberlain. And those who watched them during their prime moved along, although the Magic-Michael era was pretty close. Still, players’ legacy are only as good as the memory of the dominating media members. At some point, Jordan won’t be the one mentioned as all-time greatest in the NBA.