When Bryant was asked if he should have shot so much after injuring his back he said, "I got some pretty good looks. They didn't fall down for me. Some nights they do, some nights they don't."
He said his greatest challenge is elevating.
"I'm glad we don't play tomorrow," Bryant said. "It'll give me another day to recuperate and get ready. I'll be ready to go."
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JUST WHEN YOU ALL THOUGHT DUDE WAS GROWN. ONCE HE TOUCHED THE MAURICE PODOLOFF EVERYTHING CHANGED.
"KOBE!! Nice, real name no gimmicks" -
[Intro] Two Laker dance girls go round the outside; round the outside, round the outside {*scratches* Two Laker dance girls go round the outside; round the outside, round the outside {*scratches*
Guess who's back Back again KOBE's!! back Tell a friend Guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back.. {*KOBE!! hums*
I've created a monster, cause nobody wants to see KOBE!! no more They want Mamba, I'm chopped liver (huh?) Well if you want Mamba, this is what I'll give ya A little bit of meee mixed with some car stickers (kb24) A no call that'll jump start my heart quicker than a shock when I get shocked at the hospital by the doctor when I'm not co-operating When I'm rockin the table while he's operating (hey!!) You waited this long, now stop debating Cause I'm back, I'm on the rag and ovu-lating I know that you got a job Ms. Jeanie
but your boyfriend's hip problem's complicating So the NBA won't let me be or let me be me, so let me see They try to shut me down on TNT But it feels so empty, without me So, run on and rip, dunk on your lips Forget that, spin on your hips, and some on your mitts And get ready, cause this ishss about to get heavy I just settled all my lawsuits, F$@# YOU KATIE!
Now this looks like a job for me So everybody, just follow me Cause we need a little, controversy Cause it feels so empty, without me I said this looks like a job for me So everybody, just follow me Cause we need a little, controversy Cause it feels so empty, without me
So you paid me millions, still i'm feelin rebellious Embarrassed my teammates shoot like Elvis They start feelin like prisoners helpless 'til Shaq comes along on and he's pissed and yells SNITCH!!! A visionary, vision of scary Could start a revolution, pollutin the airwaves A rebel, so just let me revel and bask in the fact that I got everyone kissin my #### {*smak* And it's a disaster, such a catastrophe for you to see so damn much of my ####; you asked for me? Well I'm back, na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na {*bzzt* Fix your bent antenna tune it in and then I'm gonna enter in, endin up under your skin like a splinter The center of attention, back for the winter I'm interesting, the best thing since wrestling Infesting in your kid's ears and nesting {*bzzt* Testing, attention please Feel the tension, soon as someone mentions me Here's my ten cents, my two cents is free A nuisance, who sent? You sent for me?
Now this looks like a job for me So everybody, just follow me Cause we need a little, controversy Cause it feels so empty, without me I said this looks like a job for me So everybody, just follow me Cause we need a little, controversy Cause it feels so empty, without me
[A-tisket a-tasket, I go #### for tat with anybody who's talkin this ####, that #### Chuck Barkley you can get your #### kicked worse than them little Buss sibling ####s And Odom? You forever get stomped by KOBE!! You thirty year old baldheaded ####, blow me You don't know me, you're too old, let go It's over, nobody believes you could play the Pip role Now let's go, just gimme the signal I'll be there with a whole list full of new insults I been dope, suspenseful my mental ever since Bucher reported I'd be a Bull
But sometimes the #### just seems everybody only wants to discuss me So this must mean I'm dis-gus-ting But it's just me, I'm just obscene No I'm not the first king of controversy I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley to ruin my team so selfishly and used it to get myself wealthy (Hey!!) There's a concept that works Twenty million other selfish jerks emerge But no matter how many fish in the sea It'll be so empty, without me
Now this looks like a job for me So everybody, just follow me Cause we need a little, controversy Cause it feels so empty, without me I said this looks like a job for me So everybody, just follow me Cause we need a little, controversy Cause it feels so empty, without me
Hello fellow laker(s) fans. Today da playhoff matchups featuring the worlds greatest will square off downtown LA's at STAPLES center and kobe is da MVP. I think that I haded a thouhgt that told me we as laker fan owe it to MR. KOBE!! bryants to get our lazy uneducated futere gang member of ameri####a #### on down to staples and chant M.V.P.---M.V.P.---M.V.P.------ ..................... not only when mambals is at the free tooss line, not only every time HE!! touches the ball, but for the n'tire game.
So 4 Realz. Lets get down there and show our love and athletic supportership for the greatest he deserves it, and we owe it to him for playing "the right way" this seezon.
NBA
Bryant will win first MVP awardEmail Picture
Jack Dempsey, Associated Press
Lakers guard Kobe Bryant soars back to the bench after hitting a basket against the Denver Nuggets during the fourth quarter in Game 4 of the first-round.
Stern will make the official presentation to Lakers star next week.
By Mike Bresnahan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer May 3, 2008
It took 12 seasons, but Kobe Bryant has finally been selected the NBA's most valuable player, The Times has learned.
Sources familiar with the outcome who were not authorized to speak publicly about the award until the official announcement from the league said Commissioner David Stern will be in Los Angeles next week to present the trophy to Bryant.
The award, selected by NBA writers and broadcasters, figured to go to either Bryant or New Orleans guard Chris Paul, who guided the Hornets to second place in the Western Conference in the regular season.
Bryant's season capped a massive turnaround from a tumultuous off-season in which he asked to be traded.
The Lakers went from shaky preseason forecasts to winning the top spot in the West, finishing 57-25 in one of the most grueling regular-season races in league history. The Lakers then swept Denver in the first round of the playoffs, with Bryant averaging 33.5 points a game in the series, although the votes had already been cast by then.
Bryant, 29, lost a little in the scoring column during the regular season, falling from 31.6 points a game last season to 28.3 during the 2007-08 season, but his defense was notably better and he averaged 6.3 rebounds and 5.4 assists, numbers that were tied for the second- and fourth-best outputs of his career.
He also deferred to teammates much more than in the last few seasons and rarely forced his will on games, a trait that saddled him in the past.
Despite his explosive on-court ability, Bryant never engendered much MVP support until this season. He was third in the voting last season, fourth two seasons ago, and did not receive a vote three years ago when the Lakers failed to make the playoffs.
He was fifth when the Lakers last advanced to the NBA Finals, in 2003-04.
As the 2007-08 regular season wound down, Bryant spoke about the MVP award.
"MVP nowadays is not an individual award," he said last month. "You really have to make your teammates better and elevate your ballclub. For me to be nominated in that race is a tremendous honor because that's really been one of the criticisms that people have had of me, is how well do I make my teammates better. From that standpoint, I feel like I've already won."
The Lakers usually let the fortunes of their players rest on their own achievements, but the team took the added step of creating a Bryant-for-MVP campaign by sending material to NBA writers around the league.
The concept mimicked an old-style political election campaign and consisted of bumper stickers, campaign buttons, red suspenders and a letter from "campaign manager" Jerry Buss, who urged writers to vote for Bryant.
It might have lent a helping hand, although Bryant's season-long play ultimately had the final say.
Bryant is the fourth Laker to win the MVP award. Shaquille O'Neal won in 2000, Magic Johnson won three times, the last in 1990, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won the MVP three times as a Laker, the last time in 1980.
