Tag: Kobe Bryant
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What LeBron James really means to the city of Akron, Ohio. “We see your shot charts and raise you ‘scrimmage’ shot charts.” – Basketball-Reference to NBA.com. Yet another way in which Kobe Bryant is misunderstood. Jacob Greenberg has a more introspective…
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We interrupt our ordinary coverage of meaningless late-season Wolves games with the earthshaking news out of Los Angeles: Kobe Bryant tore his Achilles tendon and may never play another NBA game. Just typing that sentence feels outlandish. Kobe drove…
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“I try to stay away from that, and the reason is: I would never ask a player to play against a ghost; past, present, or future. We could only play against the guy that showed up while we were playing.”…
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This is an unusually late game wrap for a number of reasons. First, I could not watch the entire game on Friday. My roommate just turned 30, we hosted a little party for that occasion (that later in the night…
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This coming Thursday is the tenth anniversary of the first time I watched Kobe Bryant play, in person. In rather odd circumstances (for me, at least) I was able to attend this game at Staples Center. While this playoff series…
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With the Wolves playing again tonight (at Houston, 7:00 CST, FSN North) I’m going to wrap up last night’s loss to the Lakers rather briefly, Clint Eastwood style. The Good The end-of-third-quarter lineup of Rubio-Webster-Beasley-Randolph-Love. After the struggling through two…