Hoop Dreams

Friday.  It’s Friday!  Keep your head up, Kobe Bean.

KG responds: “Prenup?”

gotemcoach:

#TRUE

Damn, Kobe.

I really hope Kobe’s knees hold up this well all year.  It would be a lot of fun to see him enter the playoffs at least one more time with some bullets left in the chamber.

gotemcoach:

Kobe goes for 40 again.  Danke für die #IllegalGermanKnees.

@gotem_coach

Still got something left.  It’s going to be fun watching Kobe this year.  Going to be very interesting to see how much he has in the tank in the end…the Western Conference is wide open IMO.

(via nbatumblr)

Leather.  I mean, leather.

That was a fun opening day, huh?  The Heat absolutely dominated the Mavs.  The Bulls came back to beat the Lake show.  A ho hum Thunder win over Howard’s Magic.  A nice start for Chris Paul over in Lob city.  Just glad to have the NBA back.

BTW - kudos to Luol Deng.  DRose played a very efficient game and he abused DFish (shocking, I know) for the game winner…but it was Deng (and missed Laker free throws) that kept the Bulls in it late in the game.  He rarely gets the credit he deserves from Bulls fans, so Luol, hat tip to you.

Bachelor.

Kobe is gonna be salty as hell this season. At least this adds to his Jordan appeal.

(via coolistheessence)

Take that you expletive! This is my expletive court! - Kobe

It doesn’t feel all that long ago really…

On the brink.  I was pretty shocked the Lakers lost after having a 7 point lead with about 5 minutes left.  In the past, those games were finished.

Let’s see what Kobe and company have left in the tank.  They could still make this thing interesting, but digging yourself out of this hole is nearly impossible.

litandbasketball:

You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread.

- Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Let’s see if Mamba has one more left.  Getting that 2nd seed was big IMO.

Mamba loves Nutella.