Weekend Update

Kobe Bryant was all over the place in Vegas this weekend, getting second in the Skills Competition, judging next to Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins in the Dunk Competition, and winning the MVP in the All-Star Game. 
 

My own personal MVP of the weekend was Charles Barkley, who beat 67-year-old Dick Bavetta in a contest where both men appeared to be laboring, there were actual stakes in the contest, and both sides ended up sprawled out on the hardwood. Plus everything was for a good cause- hilarity and charity. 
 

In other Lakers All-Star news, Andrew Bynum and Jordan Farmar were in the Rookie-Sophomore game.  Neither of them were very impressive in a game that was maybe the most unimpressive exhibition in a weekend of unimpressive All-Star unimpressivness.
 

If anybody didn’t get enough of Kobe on TV in LA, check out Lakers tickets at StubHub.com, and get some more show-stealing in real life.  


 

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What Happens in Vegas…

Kobe Bryant won the MVP of the All-Star game this Sunday for the second time of his career.  In an All-Star game that seemed to come up short in every way, save for the amount of lipstick applied to Wayne Newton’s facade, Kobe, it seems, was the best of the mediocre.
 

Maybe we as NBA basketball fans have just seen about everything there is to see in an All-Star game, and are now hard to impress.  It didn’t seem like Kobe really did anything that he wouldn’t do in any other game (reverse jams, slightly exaggerated dunks, trading baskets with the LeBron James etc), except that the guise of NBA defense wasn’t even there. 
 

He did score 31 points, leading the West to a victory that only slightly represents the gulf in talent and team power between the two NBA conferences.  He can enjoy the MVP victory in Vegas for the time being, but then it’s back to work.
 

When he gets back to L.A. Kobe will be back to work with a five game losing streak to break.  Get Lakers tickets at StubHub.com to see if the break helped the rest of the team get back on track.      


 

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