The Lakers and their two MVP candidates - Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant - are on a roll and have moved into the sixth spot ahead of my own Utah Jazz after two unexpected losses on the road.
Rather, it was the pitch that Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak and All-Star Kobe Bryant made to 2-time MVP Steve Nash to join Los Angeles that filtered through the crowd like the wave.
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She will deliver scores and stats, and as seen in an onstage demo can even tell you which basketball player is taller -- Kobe Bryant or LeBron James (it's LeBron, in case you're wondering).
His game changing decision can also be measured by the effects it has had on other players.. Superstar Dwight Howard has already followed a similar path by forcing a trade to the Kobe Bryant-led Los Angeles Lakers from the New York Knicks, attempting to pull together a team to rival the Heat.
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Los Angeles added two-time MVP point guard Steve Nash earlier in the offseason, and the two new stars join five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant to form a dominant trio of top-five players at their respective positions.
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Kobe Bryant, long-time Los Angeles Laker and future Hall-of-Famer, is in a bitter feud with his own mother over ownership of memorabilia potentially worth more than one million dollars.
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The anticipation of the WNBA superstars, Candace Parker, Diana Taurasi, and Tamika Catchings, competing for a record fifth consecutive gold medal and NBA all-stars, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant and LeBron James, playing on one unified team did not disappoint basketball fans.
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When Kobe Bryant directed the F-word at a referee and he was caught on camera, there was a huge uproar.
You gotta love this crazy man and the hype. (Not to mention his miracle put-back on a Kobe Bryant miss at the buzzer to win Game 5 between the Suns and Lakers in the Western Conference Finals.) Who else but Artest, in a trademark bizarre post-game interview, would attribute his championship performance to his psychiatrist?
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He shook my hand with the enthusiasm of Kobe Bryant cornered by a season-ticket holder.
Jason Kidd, who is the same age as Giggs, is the active leader with 1, 366 regular-season games, while Kobe Bryant reached 1, 000 in 2010 at the age of 32.
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The second best-selling active NBA pitchman is Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers.
With a potential NBA lockout looming in the distance, these video game deals ensure that hoops fans will have some form of new basketball featuring NBA All-Stars like Derrick Rose, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard.
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Players like Kobe Bryant, Vince Carter, Nate Robinson (a three-time winner) and Dwight Howard have helped keep things relevant.
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Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scored 81 against the last-place Toronto Raptors in 2006, the NBA's second-highest single-game total.
"The fast-break points, that's a killer, " Kobe Bryant said.
Coca-Cola lost a great salesman when it did not renew its endorsement deal with Kobe Bryant for its Sprite brand when it expired at the end of 2005.
"Kobe is the best player in the league, " said O'Neal of Bryant, who scored a game-best 27 points.
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