Tag Archives: Kobe Bryant
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NBA Playoffs 2013: 9 Big Storylines to Watch
After 5½ months, the regular season has come to a close, the standings have been finalized, and the 2013 NBA Playoffs are set to begin on Saturday. Just like last year, this year’s NBA postseason is stacking up to be very interesting. Big stars are injured, new teams are looking to join the elite ranks, [...]
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Taiwanese Animation Studio NMA Is Proclaiming the Death of Kobe Bryant’s Career (Video)
Nobody ever likes to see pro athletes suffer serious injuries, but it’s always worse when those athletes are in the latter stages of their careers. If it’s a 24-year-old, chances are he’ll recover just fine. But a 34-year-old? You just never know. Chances are the guy’s abilities were already in decline, even if only slightly. [...]
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Kobe Bryant Says He Would Have “Smacked the Hell Outta” Mike Rice (Video)
One of the most interesting storylines to develop from the whole Mike Rice scandal has been the reactions from heavyweights in the world of basketball. A couple of the NBA’a biggest stars made some pretty bold statements about the Mike Rice scandal, including Kobe Bryant. Here is what the Black Mamba had to say to [...]
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Kobe Bryant on Ankle Sprain: Dahntay Jones “Jalen Rose’d me” (Videos)
On Wednesday night in Atlanta, Kobe Bryant missed a game-tying two-pointer from the baseline that cost the Lakers the game. However, much more painful than the loss to the Hawks was the fact that Kobe suffered a severe ankle sprain on the play. And this isn’t a regular old severe ankle sprain. It’s a controversial [...]
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The 20 Members of the NBA’s 60 Points Club
This season, the highest point total put up in a single game is 54. That feat was achieved just last week by the Warriors’ Stephen Curry, and it was only the second 50-point game of the year—the other coming from the NBA’s leading scorer, Kevin Durant, back in January. However, while a 50-point game is [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 3/6/2013 — Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant went into last night’s game against the New Orleans Hornets with a nagging elbow injury. He came out of it with one of his most impressive performances of the season. The Lakers trailed the Hornets by as much as 25 points, and with 6:22 remaining in the game they found themselves trailing by a score [...]
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Kobe’s Wife, Vanessa Bryant, May Have Paid Rapper AP.9 $1-Million During Affair (Video)
Kobe Bryant has taken plenty of heat from the media and from his wife, Vanessa, for his well-documented extramarital affairs. Well, it appears as though it may be Kobe’s turn to throw some stones. You see, during a recent interview on the “Reach Around Radio Show,” a Hollywood publicist was providing the hosts with [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 2/24/2013 — Kobe Bryant
Prior to yesterday’s NBA match-up between the Dallas Mavericks and the Los Angeles Lakers, Mavs owner Mark Cuban suggested that the Lakers should consider using the amnesty clause on Kobe Bryant. Well, let’s just say that perhaps Cuban should have waited until after the game to open his mouth, because his comments seemed to inspire [...]
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Kobe Bryant Plays Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” on Piano (Video)
Kobe Bryant and the Lakers paid a visit to Miami this past weekend to take in the sights and get whupped by LeBron James and the Heat. Okay, fine. It wasn’t that bad. The Heat only won by ten, 107-97, and Kobe contributed a solid 28 points. It’s just that the Heat had LeBron score [...]
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Kobe Bryant: 24 Sweet GIFs
Yesterday we here at TotalProSports showed you a great Kobe Bryant highlight in which he blows past the Nets’ Gerald Wallace and then dunks on Kris Humprhies. Now, I’m not a Lakers fan, and I’ve never really been a huge Kobe fan either, but as I watched that clip I couldn’t help but think it’s [...]
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Kobe Bryant Posterized Gerald Wallace and Kris Humphries (Video)
The Lakers may be starting to pull things together a bit over the last 10 to 15 games, but overall this season has been pretty brutal. They got off to a horrible start, fired a coach, hired a guy many people thought was the wrong choice, and then they still struggled to play great ball. [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 1/27/2013 — Kobe Bryant
Despite the additions of Dwight Howard and Steve Nash in the offseason, the Los Angeles Lakers have struggled mightily this season, putting together a 17-25 record through their first 42 games of the season. That abysmal record had many suggesting that perhaps the team would be better off if their high-scoring superstar, Kobe Bryant, ditched [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 1/15/2013 — Dwight Howard
The Los Angeles Lakers kicked off the new year by losing their first six games of 2013, but their fortunes could suddenly be changing. On Sunday, they snapped their streak of futility by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers. And last night it was their two superstars, Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard, that were leading the way [...]
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Kobe Bryant Tweets Picture of Mock Fight With Dwight Howard (Photo)
Yesterday, Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News cited “a league source” who claimed that Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard nearly came to blows after yet another frustrating Lakers loss on New Year’s Day. Howard, the story goes, has been unhappy with Bryant since early in the season, and Bryant supposedly insinuated that Howard [...]
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Dwight Howard Misses Open Dunk, Gets Posterized by Gerald Henderson (Video)
When Dwight Howard left Orlando for Los Angeles over the summer, it was supposed to mark the end of a frustrating chapter of his career with the Magic, and the beginning of a new, much more prosperous chapter with the Lakers. Two month into the 2012-13 NBA season, that certainly hasn't been the case. Sure, [...]
