I'm watching the Award Show on youtube right now...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3AV2wwhgtc
Its Official : Kobe Bryant is the 07-08 MVP
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Well in a world where every other journalist, TV announcer or casual fan seems to be slobbering over Kobe (deservingly so, but since he's been so disliked and portrayed as the ultimate villain for so long, I've almost forgotten how it was like when he was actually well liked), here is an interesting article I came across.
The red line of the article is understandable for someone who probably doesn't get a lot of his "work" published: blow things out of proportions and sprinkle some made-up facts on top to entice the people into reading it.
I give you Most Villainous Player: Bryant by Ian O'Connor, from Kentucky.com.
"Kobe Bryant might have likened his first MVP award to the uplifting payoff found at the end of a Hollywood script, but his honor proves only that good things happen to bad actors.
Bryant is indeed the best player in the NBA; he's assumed that role for some time. He's scheduled to go down among the all-time greats, to be remembered as a shooting guard worthy of flying Michael Jordan's skies.
That doesn't make him an admirable figure. Not even close. In a perfect world, a world where selfish conduct isn't rewarded with a FedEx shipment in the form of Pau Gasol, Bryant would be joining the Nets and Knicks at the draft lottery and watching David Stern's post-season band play on without him."
My favourite part, however, is this sentence:"Bryant passed the ball to himself in his first All-Star game, and he has shown little consideration for others ever since."
I'll go out on a limb and guess that people like him kept Bryant off of 22 ballots in 06 and placed him 4th this year.
Anyway, congrats to our MVP, it's been hard earned and well deserved. And now on to bigger things!
The red line of the article is understandable for someone who probably doesn't get a lot of his "work" published: blow things out of proportions and sprinkle some made-up facts on top to entice the people into reading it.
I give you Most Villainous Player: Bryant by Ian O'Connor, from Kentucky.com.
"Kobe Bryant might have likened his first MVP award to the uplifting payoff found at the end of a Hollywood script, but his honor proves only that good things happen to bad actors.
Bryant is indeed the best player in the NBA; he's assumed that role for some time. He's scheduled to go down among the all-time greats, to be remembered as a shooting guard worthy of flying Michael Jordan's skies.
That doesn't make him an admirable figure. Not even close. In a perfect world, a world where selfish conduct isn't rewarded with a FedEx shipment in the form of Pau Gasol, Bryant would be joining the Nets and Knicks at the draft lottery and watching David Stern's post-season band play on without him."
My favourite part, however, is this sentence:"Bryant passed the ball to himself in his first All-Star game, and he has shown little consideration for others ever since."
I'll go out on a limb and guess that people like him kept Bryant off of 22 ballots in 06 and placed him 4th this year.
Anyway, congrats to our MVP, it's been hard earned and well deserved. And now on to bigger things!
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does anyone have a link to the ceremony with stern and kobe before game 2?
man i gotta say, i hate john saunders so much, ive seen this guy over the last 5 years when he comments on the league and stories, this guy ALWAYS takes shots a kobe, he's got so much hate for him.
I even remember that espn interview a couple of years ago on nba shootaround, saunders tried to trash kobe so much, even watching his stupid sports reporters show, he starts off saying "kobe wins the mvp, but not so long ago he committed rape" WTF
I seriously despise this man so much, am im ashamed i dishonored this kobe thread to say this and bring this bad energy.
But lakers fans, i must know, am i know the only one who feels this way or has anyone else noticed this?
man i gotta say, i hate john saunders so much, ive seen this guy over the last 5 years when he comments on the league and stories, this guy ALWAYS takes shots a kobe, he's got so much hate for him.
I even remember that espn interview a couple of years ago on nba shootaround, saunders tried to trash kobe so much, even watching his stupid sports reporters show, he starts off saying "kobe wins the mvp, but not so long ago he committed rape" WTF
I seriously despise this man so much, am im ashamed i dishonored this kobe thread to say this and bring this bad energy.
But lakers fans, i must know, am i know the only one who feels this way or has anyone else noticed this?
Dwight Howard on his FT struggles:
"I just think everybody needs to stop talking about it," Howard said. "There's more to life than free throws."