Saturday, May 25th, 2013

With the game tied 137-137 last night in the Drew League the ball was in Kobe Bryant’s hands as he used his dribble to set up James Harden for…wait for it…the game winner!
Kobe was then mobbed on the court by fans before he took off his shoes and threw them to two lucky fans.
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Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant had an experimental surgery done on his knee last month in Germany.
It appears that it was a success based on this highly athletic 360 degree dunk Kobe threw down off an alley-oop he threw to himself at his Kobe Bryant Skills Academy in China.

Why do celebrities and athletes to cheesy commercials for overseas companies?  Because they pay extremely handsomely for a short day’s work.
Here is Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant in a new commercial for Turkish Airlines.
It was written by a 3-year old.

Hey, you got me.  For some unexplained reason NBA All-Star Kobe Bryant was honored this week with a traditional hand and footprint ceremony outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater.  Bryant is the very first athlete EVER to be given such an honor.
The basketball pro’s wife Vanessa Bryant and his two daughters, Natalie and Gianna, came out to [...]

You know you’ve got something good going when the bus the hero comes in on explodes 30 seconds into the film.  Directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Kobe Bryant, “Black Mamba” is the 5 and-a-half minute commercial that every 13 year-old NBA fan dreams of.  It’s got heroes and villains, basketball playing super-zombies and Danny [...]

Okay, so we knew the days of measured, well-thought-out responses from sports figures were over.  But lately, the sound bites that have been flying from the mouths of professional athletes seem to lack even the slightest measure of tact.  In the NFL, Hines Ward of the Steelers recently suggested to reporters that the NFL  doesn’t [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers, holding with tradition as the reigning NBA champs, visited the President in Washington D.C. on Tuesday.
The Lakers have been there so much of late that President Barack Obama and the team decided to meet at the Boys & Girls Club and work on a community service project with the children at [...]

LeBron James continues to have a tough week as many have downgraded him to second banana upon his migration down to South Beach to join Dwyane Wade on the Miami Heat.
The debate between many die-hard NBA fans is who is the better player between LeBron and Kobe Bryant.
Well the greatest guard to ever play chimed [...]

Los Angeles Lakers all-star Kobe Bryant appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night (April 06, 2010).
Bryant (in the video above) talks about beating NBA player Brian Shaw at H-O-R-S-E as a 11-year old, his basketball camp for kids, and whether or not teammate Ron Artest is crazy or not.

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Los Angeles Lakers all-star Kobe Bryant appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Live!, with host Jimmy Kimmel last night (April 06, 2010).
Bryant (in the video above) talked about winning the NBA Championship last year, meeting President Obama, and his two daughters.

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