I won't be watching the game tonite.

This series means everything to me.

I know this might sound strange, but whenever I watch my teams play, all the bad things in my life, everything that's going wrong, is embodied in the other team. So when I root for my team, I'm not just rooting for them, but for me and for my life to get better. I get very personally wrapped up in this stuff. Sue me.

So whenever my team's down, and I see someone like Kobe on the TV, it's kind of life seeing Superman getting his ass beat. And if he can't stop Doomsday, then who can?

And now a revelation comes out today (ESPN) that 2 refs allegedly conspired to fix playoff series. No shock. Helpless is how you feel. This series has been officiated awfully. God awfully. In all honesty I am extremely turned off by the NBA, but it's not like I've got a lot of other choices. At the end of the day, the Black Sox are rolling in their graves.

In an attempt to save my TV and not break more shit, I won't watch tonight, or probably game 4 either.

The Lakers are going to the Championship!!! I'm on the verge of tears!!!

Can't type. Discombobulated. Kobe = GOAT.

100th post = did you see Kobe last night?

Now, I'm not one to gloat, nor would I say that only a certain ilk root for that team in San Antonio, but Kobe is officially the shit. After vacationing in the Bermuda during the first half, in which he had 2 points from a total of 3 shots, the ghosts arrived and lit a fire up his ass. The Lakers summoned the spirits to come back from a 20, yes, twenty, point deficit in the 3rd quarter and win the game.

San Antonio was going to let Kobe have his shots. According to their strategy, they were going to let him score his 35 points and still win by playing their god-awfully slow game. But Mr. 1 Better Than Jordan (24) himself recognized this and refused to play in accordance with their game plan. Then, like going full force ahead and then flanking from both sides, a favorite move of General Patton himself, Bryant went off and that team from Central Texas got knocked off their heels and onto their asses. They never saw it coming.

Say what you will, but so will I. You can't stop what's coming.

Lakers in '08.

it's a celebration bitches!!!

Kobe Bean Bryant has officially been named MVP, and holy shit I think every internal organ in my body has exploded!!!

I've been sitting on this for a while but decided not to blog about it until it was official official. I'll never forget where I was when I heard the news: me and my brothers were just getting in the car after the Kanye concert (which was balls to the wall the shit, N*E*R*D blew the fuckin doors off that thing) and my brother returned a missed call from my mom and she told us. Pure euphoria. I'll never forget the phosphorescent glow that emitted from my shiny little heart.

The Lakers are holding a press conference tomorrow, and he's getting the award before the game Wednesday. It's been over a decade and now my dream has come true. The GOAT!!!!

how the West was won - LA Times aricle on the Lakers.

The LA Times has a really cool photo slideshow/article profiling the Lakers. Bow in the presence of Lake-ness.

i'm gonna cry!!!

writers poll says kobe's got this!!!

since kobe's rookie year, i've been a ridiculously passionate supporter of this guy. i remember back when he was merely a bald headed do-gooder who spoke 4 languages and just got out of high school. and through thick and thin, the colorado thing, the shaq trade, the year they missed the playoffs, all the talk of dwaye whatever-his-name is, my fandomness has yet to falter. second to only a ring without kazaam, kobe winning his first mvp was perhaps the number one thing in sports i had to see happen. how could a guy who has been without question the most talented and skilled player in the game not have one of these things? the chick from the carpenters has 2!

regardless, it finally appears that his day has come. and the fact that it's happening to this guy, after all he's been through as a player, and after all the abuse i've taken as a loyal and stubborn fan, who takes this shit personally, makes it that much sweeter.

to paraphrase the great s. corey carter, "men lie, women lie, numbers don't," and neither does the record of one kobe bean bryant. yes!!!