The Credits:  "Stuck"

Phil’s comments are all over the internet on every site. Phil is such a master of answering media questions and he always leaves the media with even more questions because he does or doesn’t committ to anything. Now the media is trying to break down his comments to try and speculate that he isn’t happy with Buss’ son and blah…blah…blah. I found this other article in hoopshype about Phil not coming back next year.

http://blogs.hoopshype.com/blogs/lazenby/2009/12/21/what-jerry-buss-didnt-say/

is killing all my time today!

Love this quote from Antonio McDyess:

“He’s a lot more aggressive now. It’s like he knows now that he can’t be stopped. He’s so much more aggressive now, and what can you do? He’s got you on your heels at all times. Earlier in his career, he was kind of thinking about, okay, I’m gonna get my shot off, but now he thinks the game. He gets everyone involved, and he’s also scoring. Before, he may have thought he was the best… now he knows.”

That is so “The Matrix”.

I have no problem admitting that I got chocked up reading JA Adande’s article on Kobe. It really speaks from a fan’s perspective because my biggest joy of the last title was that it was Kobe’s final exclamation on his way to redemption. As a fan that is what made me proud to be a Lakers and a Kobe Bryant fan.

Michael Jordan once said the quality Bryant possessed that reminded him most of himself was the desire to distance himself from contemporaries.

For those who missed it too, the Kamanetzky Bros from the LA Times Lakers Blog have moved to the Land O’ Lakers Blog on the new ESPN Los Angeles site

again, from ESPN LA , here’s what Kobe told Magic Johnson:

Kobe was also effusive in his praise of Pau Gasol, and explained both why the big Spaniard is such a brutal cover, and why his addition has helped his game:

    “He’s clearly one of the best basketball players in the world. Clearly. In my opinion, he’s the best post player in the game. Left hand, right hand, fadeaway, jump hook, he’ll give you everything. But yet he still seems to be under-rated. I think the people that play against him, and have to match up with him, they know what time it is… It makes my life a lot easier, because we have another threat on the floor that you have to pay attention to, that you have to double team. And when you have that, it puts so much pressure on the defense. And we can run a two man game, and that’s how we compliment each other so well, because he can stretch the floor, too. So when it’s a crucial situation and he and I run the screen and roll, it’s a tough matchup.”