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[UsualSuspects]

View media item 1995483 Thank You Kobe

 

[you big dummy]

This was probably already posted by now but w/e

 

[mr j 858]

 

[noblekane]

How do you find full games?
I really don't get why the NBA doesn't sell classic games

you can pretty much watch any game now with league pass i believe if its part of hardwood classics collection

 

[freeze]

I'm sad my name didn't make the poll.

I've failed.

 

[daddyrabbit251]

I honestly can see KD or any other star coming to this team after that show they put on for kobe and the money involved in it... Kobe low key probably skated off with 10 mil this week

The money, the support... Thats powerful... Having a whole city behind u like that. KD one of the 3 or 4 guys in the league i think can really embrace that and succeed in it.

 

[jadams003]

Good seeing you again man. First the Jay-Z concert now this.

I know they had a draft lottery meet up last year. If they do it again, come through. I got that whole week off.

Just say the word brotha and I'm there!

And Mamba MVP, no shade brotha, hope none was taken. I was a bit bummed more NTers didn't respond to link up cause it would have been dope to meet some of y'all (aside from being able to probably help one another out at the Vault).

 

[mr j 858]

I honestly can see KD or any other star coming to this team after that show they put on for kobe and the money involved in it... Kobe low key probably skated off with 10 mil this week

The money, the support... Thats powerful... Having a whole city behind u like that. KD one of the 3 or 4 guys in the league i think can really embrace that and succeed in it.

It really depends on a few things nowadays when it comes to the NBA's current Superstars.

Dwight didn't want to be here because he couldn't handle the pressure of having a franchise & city and it's fanbase on his back to carry like the Lakers & LA.

Melo didn't wan't to come here because of the money.I bet he really knew how a lot of fans in LA and outside and around the country & world view him as not being a complete player or not a true superstar and that's why I think he choose to Stay in NYC with the Knicks.

 

[mr j 858]

Jerry West didn't need much time to make up his mind about Kobe Bryant


It has become a mythical tale, one that grows in importance whenever the talk turns to Kobe Bryant's legendary workout for the Lakers in 1996 and exactly how long it took for Jerry West to know he was watching greatness on the court.

West, then the general manager of the Lakers, gathered his public relations staff of John Black and Raymond Ridder and headed over to Inglewood High to watch a 17-year-old from Lower Merion High work out for the second time.

Bryant went one-on-one against Michael Cooper, the retired Laker who had been named to NBA's All-Defensive team eight times during the 1980s.

Here is where the Bryant-Cooper workout saga became urban lore. Just how long did West stay to watch that workout?

"It wasn't two minutes, OK," West said recently.

So how long was West there?

"It was probably 10 minutes," he said.

That was enough time for West to determine the talents of a player, even a kid out of high school, and to prove that Bryant was the player he and the Lakers had to have.

"Michael and Kobe were playing one-on-one and it was not much of a contest," West said. "It wasn't much of a challenge for Kobe. I said, 'To hell with this. I've seen enough.'"

Truth be told, this was not the same Cooper who was a star on five Lakers championships teams. Cooper, then 40, had last played with them in 1990. He played one more season in Italy before retiring and joining the Lakers' staff in 1994 as an assistant under Coach Del Harris.

"Kobe was really great with the ball," Harris explained. "He had moves. But Michael wasn't in shape and that wasn't the Michael that won the defensive player of the year."

Bryant had been in a prior workout against other players the Lakers had brought in before the draft and that also made an impression on West.

"The one thing that you could see in all the drills was how competitive he was and how knowledgeable he was about the game," West said. "The thing you could not ignore was his enormous skill level. He was clearly, I mean clearly, head and shoulders above the people that we had brought in — just completely head and shoulders."

As overwhelmed as West was with Bryant, the Lakers still had plenty of work to do to land him.

The Lakers didn't draft until 24th that year — they ultimately took Derek Fisher with the pick — and West was sure Bryant wouldn't be around then.

Plus, West's primary focus in 1996 was to pry All-Star center Shaquille O'Neal away from Orlando when the free-agency period opened.

That spring Bryant, the son of former NBA player Joe "Jellybean" Bryant, was generating plenty of buzz going into the draft.

His agent at the time, Arn Tellem, began letting teams know that Bryant's preference was to play with the Lakers. Bryant's parents, Joe and Pam Bryant, were also sending signals that their son didn't want to play close to his home in the Philadelphia area.

John Calipari was then head coach of the New Jersey Nets and he had an interest in picking Bryant with the team's eighth overall pick in the draft.

But once he got wind of the desires of Bryant and his camp, Calipari used his selection to take Villanova shooting guard Kerry Kittles.

Still, the Lakers weren't out of the woods just yet, knowing that other teams were interested in Bryant. After Kittles, Samaki Walker, Erick Dampier, Todd Fuller and Vitaly Potapenko were selected.

But the shrewd West had worked out a pre-draft deal with Charlotte, which had the 13th pick in the draft, and the Hornets took Bryant. The Lakers agreed to send veteran center Vlade Divac to Charlotte for the draft rights to the 6-foot-6 high school guard.

"I remember after we made the trade, I told [Lakers owner] Jerry Buss, 'I think we got the best player in the draft,'" West said. "I said, 'He's young, but he's the most talented player that I've seen in a long time.' And that's how it came about."

West had gotten Bryant, and then he went to work on getting O'Neal. In mid-July, West signed O'Neal to a seven-year, $120-million deal.

"Our desire to acquire Shaquille O'Neal was the bigger picture at that time," West said. "To me, that was so important to our franchise to have him there, not only as a player, but as someone who people are going to come watch play. That was our big emphasis that summer. Jerry Buss and I had talked about it. Shaq was going to make us a contender immediately."

Bryant and O'Neal won three NBA championships together. Bryant then won two more rings with Pau Gasol, Fisher and Lamar Odom.

His career is over now, Bryant's 20 years with the Lakers coming to an end April 13.

There are many stories about Bryant's career, but perhaps none more critical than his one-on-one workout in front of West.

"At that point and time, it wasn't in vogue to take high school players," West recalled. "It just wasn't. The one thing he had was the effervescence about himself that was not like people that had gone to school a lot longer, people with more experience, people more mature.

"With him, he was like a kid. 'I've got my toy,' and the toy department was the basketball. He was happy, smiling, very sure of himself even at a young age that he was going to be capable of accepting this next challenge," West said.

"Kobe and Michael just were shooting around and when they started playing, I said, 'I've seen enough,' which in fact was the truth. And, yes, it was 10 minutes."

Source:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/la-sp-kobe-draft-day-jerry-west-20160417-story.html

 

[zk1mpls]

http://www.ebay.com/rpp/nike-black-...01.m1256&_trkparms=&clkid=4693683756215156501

and

http://graphics.latimes.com/kobe-every-shot-ever/

 

[pmatic]

 

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[pmatic]

 

[senorroboto2k5]

I'm just starting to build my Kobe Game Collection.... It's really a pain to scour for decent quality early games..

Will eventually buy a huge external HD to store them all.


What I've found good enough quality of:

6/4/2000 - Game 7 Western Conference Finals vs. Blazers
5/31/2002 - Game 4 Western Conference Finals vs. Kings - Robert Horry Game
5/13/2004 - Game 5 Western Conference Semifinals @ Spurs - 0.4
12/12/2005 - Lakers @ Mavs - Kobe Gets 43. Kobe loses his dribble, almost loses it out of bounds, and takes a fadeaway 3 to take the lead with 34 seconds left.
1/17/2006 - Versus Heat. Kobe scores 37
3/16/2007 - Versus Blazers. 65 points. Ridiculous 3 that would send the game to OT. And the ridiculous corner 3 over a double team
3/18/2007 - Versus TWolves - Kobe scores 50, after 65 on the Blazers in the game before.

The Interview with Ahmad Rashad from last February

I've found a decent amount from googling. There are (or were) a lot of forums that rip and post links to games.

 

[budap06]

Hey NT fam, dont post much and lurked a long time before I joined but I never ventured out of the Jordan Brand section for the longest. . Long time Lakers fan, have posted in the section before, not as much lately. I am in a production team, we put some some of our favorite clips of people talking about Kobe on the breakdown parts of a beat in honor of Kobe's last game. We dropped it right before the 4th quarter. Check it out.

 

[Lizakers]

I never knew this, it's amazing

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[kookcle]

Has anybody seen a full version of the game available for download? Have to have that in the archives.

Found it yesterday.

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[WAKKO!]

Welp looks like all the good coaches will be taken next week while the lakers still have to meet with Byron in 3 weeks

 

[Mr Dink]

The game is still on my DVR. I don't think I'm ever gonna delete it.

 

[kal-el-8]

Welp looks like all the good coaches will be taken next week while the lakers still have to meet with Byron in 3 weeks

 

[krazyrodzilla]

The game is still on my DVR. I don't think I'm ever gonna delete it.

SAME! I dvr both ESPN and TWC channels lol

 

[mr j 858]

Byron Scott has done 'excellent job' as Lakers coach under the circumstances, Mitch Kupchak says


Byron Scott's outlook hasn't been dimmed, record-setting lows be damned.

He was optimistic Friday when asked if he thought he would return next season as the Lakers' coach.

"Yeah. Absolutely," he said Friday.

At some point over the next week or two, Scott will have an informal lunch with Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak and Vice President Jim Buss. They'll discuss Scott's future after "things settle down a bit," Kupchak said Friday at his end-of-season news conference.

The early returns are somewhat favorable for Scott to return despite the Lakers' setting another franchise low for winning percentage, following up a 21-61 record with a more calamitous 17-65 mark this season.

"I think Byron has done an excellent job under the circumstances that he's had to deal with the last two years," Kupchak said. "This year in particular was a difficult year for a coach to wade his way through."

The Lakers have until June 1 to decide whether Scott will be retained, as per terms of his contract, according to a person familiar with the situation. He has one more guaranteed year for about $4 million.

Kupchak showered Kobe Bryant with praise, up to and including the stunning 60-point finale Wednesday against Utah, but acknowledged Scott's job was tricky because of Bryant's in-and-out lineup status.

Bryant, 37, played 66 of 82 games but almost never practiced with the team or came to morning shootarounds on game days.

This affected the Lakers' numerous young players. Erratic play became the norm for a team that barely won 20% of the time.

"I thought it was tough to really evaluate progress through the season," Kupchak said. "I didn't think it was anything that was a consistent pattern."

Spinning things forward, he looked forward to free agency in 2½ months, knowing the Lakers would have almost $60 million to spend if Brandon Bass opted out of his contract, as expected.

Kupchak couldn't predict if they would spend all that money or, the word he kept using, be more "prudent." He also didn't know if Bryant's retirement would be viewed positively or negatively by free agents.

Despite the Lakers missing out on big-name free agents the last three off-seasons, Kupchak thought better days were ahead.

"It's tough to sell a team that doesn't have players on it to a free agent," he said. "We do have more this summer. Granted, they're young [players].

"We do know that we're better off now than we were a year ago and certainly better off than we were two years. And we'll sell whatever we have to sell to try to encourage players to come here."

Point guard D'Angelo Russell had more downs than ups this season, losing his starting job 20 games into his rookie campaign before getting it back in February and soon embarking on an eight-game spree in which he averaged 23.3 points and 4.8 assists.

"I don't think it's a fluke," Kupchak said. "That's part of our challenge going forward, is to find out how we're going to best use his talents. The two things that I know he can do is he can score and he's got a gift to pass the ball, a unique gift. Do you want to convert D'Angelo into a passer and not utilize his ability to score the ball or do you want to encourage him to score the ball and not utilize his passing game?"

Unlike Russell, Jordan Clarkson was more attacker than passer, Kupchak said, adding that he agreed with Scott's assertion that better defense was needed from the soon-to-be restricted free-agent guard.

Power forward Julius Randle led second-year players with 34 double-doubles but needed to show he was capable of "dependably finishing" around the rim, Kupchak said, adding that Randle also needed to "draw defenders when he's on the perimeter," a fancy way of saying his much-nitpicked outside shot could use some help too.

Meanwhile, Scott is aware of the "Fire Byron" chatter, the type emanating from red-in-the-face talk-radio hosts, critical columnists and plenty of corners on Twitter and message boards.

"That's fine," he said. "They're not in there every day. They're not in there in practice. They have no clue. To be honest, I'm much smarter than all of them when it comes to basketball."

Scott, 55, never felt pressure to win from anyone above him in the franchise, he said, mentioning Kupchak and Lakers President Jeanie Buss.

"I think we're all still on the same page. We have a lot obviously to dissect, a lot of things to go through, and we're going to go through them," he said. "And then after that whatever happens, happens."

Despite all the losing, Scott still called this his "dream job," cognizant he won three championships as a player with the Lakers in the 1980s.

Source:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/la-sp-lakers-kupchak-20160416-story.html




Get ready for year 3 with Byron as the Lakers coach.

 

[Mr Dink]

Have you guys ever read Byron's bio on Wikipedia?

Byron Antom Scott (born March 28, 1961) is an American former professional basketball player and current head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a player, he was an important component of the Lakers championship teams of the mid-to-late 1980s and is also known as the Lakers' worst head coach on paper. Byron has received controversy over the 2015-2016 season with rumors of him getting fired.

I know anybody can edit it but

 

[mr j 858]

Have you guys ever read Byron's bio on Wikipedia?
I know anybody can edit it but

Looks like Essential1 went in there edited his wiki page

 

[clutchmamba]

View media item 1996791 anybody cop?