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After a long summer and the better part of the NFL season fans of the round ball are finally able to head in doors to watch a full season of NBA action. With a number of changes over the off-season it will be interesting to see how the season will play out.
So far it hasn’t been all good for everyone. The much ballyhooed Los Angeles Lakers have yet to win a game (including the preseason) even with White Lightening (Steve Nash), Superman (Dwight Howard), the Black Mamba (Kobe Bryant), and Metta World Peace (the player formerly known as Ron Artest) leading the way.
Other teams are having better luck though. Some have found some new chemistry; others have found a new role providing inspiration while one team has a minor promoting alcohol!
Tinsel-town Losing its Shine?
Next to the defending champion Miami Heat, the team that everyone has been looking forward to watching is the new, star-studded Los Angeles Lakers. Kobe Bryant has let it be known he is looking at retirement in a couple years, and with the knee trouble he’s had that’s not surprising.
So the Lakers brought in some high-priced talent and surrounded him with what should be enough playmakers for Kobe to possibly get one or even two more rings. Now if only they hadn’t forgotten how to play.
Losing every preseason game isn’t as big a deal, but when you run off three losses to start the regular season (UPDATE: the Lakers notched their first win with a 109-78 spanking of Detroit Sunday night) folks start to take notice. When you have expectations like the Lakers fans do for their team answers and improvement are expected.
The cries have been so loud for both that Kobe Bryant essentially told people to STFU:
“I just … I don’t understand … the city here … for me not trying to bite my tongue and not calling them dumb, which I kinda just did...
"Well, let Steve [Nash] dribble the ball around…let Dwight [Howard] post up and let me iso.’ It’s … I don’t want to say idiotic, but it’s close.
“…The only thing that changes is now you have Mike Brown telling everybody to be patient.Back then, it was Phil Jackson telling everybody to shut up.
The journey may actually get easier over the next week or so as Steve Nash heals from a fractured fibula, but what’s Kobe going to do when he comes back? Nash’s replacement, Steve Blake so far is more trouble than he’s worth (No cursing at the fans Steve; especially when all you do is record two assists and three turnovers).
Maybe he can talk to Ron-Ron and see if he can join him in the movies. Good ole Metta World Peace has a role in a Lifetime movie with Jennie Garth, The Eleventh Victim. The producers can’t be accused of type casting—he plays a detective that is retiring to go to Afghanistan as well as the spiritual advisor and shoulder to lean on for Garth’s character.
Rob Ryan might want to avoid this one. We know how he is with Lifetime movies.
And More…
Of course there was so much more to the first few games of the season. Houston pulled off a tremendous trade; David Stern is a little forgetful; Mark Cuban puts Donald Trump’s hair on the spot; the Wizards used a 19-year old to promote a pub crawl: Kevin Garnett is not too forgiving while one of his new teammates is giving; the list could go on and on!
Do yourself a favor and check out the gallery--but first you have to watch the coolest technical foul in basketball!
It's tradition at John Brown University that the first points of the first home game are celebrated by tossing thousands of rolls of toilet paper all over the court. if you are wondering if it is as funny as it sounds, well--it is.
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