"Grooming is so much more important once it does get hot, " says mobile pet groomer Michael Bryant of Snazzy-Pet USA in Atlanta.
The sagas of Michael Vick, Kobe Bryant and numerous baseball juicers have combined to make major brand marketers more risk averse than ever these days.
His new team has stumbled at times this season, leaving many to wonder if Mr. James will ever fulfill his promise and begin winning championships in the style of global stars like Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg highlighted Mr. Bryant's killing last week in a speech defending the role the NYPD's stop-and-frisk tactics play in crime fighting.
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Michael Jordan laughed when recalling Bryant's statement, telling reporters that his Dream Team was too smart and too good to lose to this current contingent of NBA youngsters.
Bryant reminds many of Michael Jordan who was idolized in China and racked up six NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls.
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Then there's the NBA, a league that's been marketed by Commissioner David Stern as a showcase for the individual brilliance of Bryant, James, and Michael Jordan, among others.
Nike controls a staggering 95% of the basketball shoe market already (a function of Michael Jordan much more than James or Kobe Bryant), but it has a new competitor in Under Armour which launched its first basketball shoe this month.
During his stops with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Jackson was consistently armed with transcendent stars like Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.
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The three, Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, are joined by Michael Vick, Terrell Owns and Chad Ochocinco among the disliked.
Woods and Bryant got the opportunity to redeem themselves through continued athletic brilliance, as, for that matter, did Michael Vick and Ben Roethlisberger.
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