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Kobe Bryant's Scoring Orgy Continues

Mar 23, 2007 – 6:57 AM
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All of the Fanhouse guys are on what I like to call an e-mail ring. About 10 of us ping e-mails back and forth all day, talking about the NBA and deciding on what we're going to post. About two weeks ago, after Kobe was suspended a second time by the league for his flailing elbows, I wrote something like: 'Kobe's about to explode. His team's been decimated by injuries and you can see the frustration in his eyes, and that's why he's jacking scrubs like Kyle Korver in the face. He's about to explode.'

I figured it would result in a fight of some kind, perhaps a war of words escalating into another Child Childs or Reggie Miller moment.

Instead, he's taking out his frustration on the entire league, assaulting David Stern and the other 29 teams with an onslaught of scoring previously reserved for the likes MJ and Wilt. You think I need to throw those elbows? Think again. You think I'm a dirty player? Show me a dirty player that can score 175 points in three straight games.

During this three-game scoring orgy, Kobe's raising his arms out to the entire league, as if to ask, 'what is this Dirk-Nash MVP talk. Have you forgotten moi?'

And while I've been down on Kobe for a few years now, maintaining that I'd rather have Dwyane Wade, and that LeBron is a better overall player, this quote right here is vintage Kobe. And I'm a sucker for a good quote. It's in regards to an elbow he hit Dahntay Jones with late in the game: "He flopped. He knows he flopped. If he says he didn't flop, he's a liar."

Brash and cocky, kind of like Bill Murray in 'Kingpin.' My old Kobe.
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