OK, I am still not a Kobe fan. He is beyond arrogant, he got caught with his hand (or something else) in the cookie jar (or something else) after leading a false squeaky-clean image, he pissed off Shaq and lied about it and he simply does not have the ambassadorship that a Chris Bosh, Tim Duncan and a Kevin Garnett has for the league.
But they pay the man to play ball and man can he play it. Kobe lit up the Raptors for EIGHTY-ONE points!!! The caps don't even do that justice because if you actually saw the game you would have seen double, triple and at one or two possessions even a quadruple team effort to stop him and he STILL made the damn shot. It was an incredible display and it was deeply disturbing considering that the Raptors were up by fourteen points barely twenty minutes prior to the blowing out.
Will this be enough to make him MVP? No, but it will go a long way to it if the Lakers can go deep in the playoffs. If they tank in the playoffs, everyone will simply thank him for the season's highlights and move on to someone more palatable to the sensibilities of those that do the voting. If they go deep in the playoffs, there is simply no way they will be able to deny the absolute power of this weapon of mass destruction that was unleashed upon the rest of the NBA this year. I will give credit to the Zen master, coach Phil Jackson, for the resurgence of the previously lethargic Kobe Bryant and for the push that the Lakers have in general. In the end, this team will go as Kobe goes. Right now, there does not seem to be a limit to where that will be.
Ciao.
One-man Showtime - NBA - Yahoo! Sports
Monday, January 23, 2006
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