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Five Years Later, Kobe Bryant Reflects on Scoring 81

DENVER -- His shoes from the epic night are in the Hall of Fame. He still has his uniform from then. But five years since Lakers guard Kobe Bryant scored 81 points in a Jan. 22, 2006 game against Toronto at the Staples Center, he's still in the dark about how he was able to do it. "I still don't know how in the hell it...

Lakers Assistant Jim Cleamons Talks Jordan, Kobe and Wilt

Lakers assistant coach Jim Cleamons has 10 -- yes, 10 -- NBA championship rings, one with the Lakers as a teammate of Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain in 1972, and the rest as Phil Jackson's top assistant with the Bulls and Lakers. In this video, we talk to him about the Lakers' chances to three-peat, who the hardest...

The Basketball Hall of Fame: A Tourist's Notes

In the first installment of my "Hey, what's up with this Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame?" expose, I dealt with the tricky question of enshrinement. That's the Hall of Fame as an idea, the part that gets attached to players' names as they grow old and want everyone to acknowledge how important they were. Thankfully, in...

Walt Frazier: If Wilt Chamberlain Was Playing Today, He'd Average 75 a Game

Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos. Hall of Fame basketball star Walt Frazier starred in the NBA for 13 years, winning two NBA titles and earning seven All-Star selections while playing for New York and Cleveland. FanHouse...

Are Three Superstars Two Too Many?

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Doug Collins once played for a team that was said to need three basketballs. It was the Philadelphia 76ers of the late 1970s, which featured Julius Erving, George McGinnis and World B. Free, then known as Lloyd Free. And Collins (shown right with Free recently) also was a prolific scorer, although he...

Wilt Chamberlain News From the Web

05/18/12 The Totally Tubular Stanley Cup Favorites Source: The Daily Fix - The Wall Street Journal Good enough to have knocked off the top-seeded Vancouver Canucks in the first round of the playoffs, good enough to claim a 3-0 series lead over the Phoenix Coyotes in the Western Conference finals on Thursday night, good enough to look like contenders for years to come.
05/09/12 UNC basketball great Lennie Rosenbluth (center) is... Source: The Herald-Sun - Durham NC When Lennie Rosenbluth first came to North Carolina in 1953, he couldn't give away the complimentary basketball tickets he received â his friends would go to the movies instead.
05/07/12 âGentleman Exec' Retires After Four Decades with... Source: Fishbowl LA - Mediabistro.com They don't make journalism careers like this anymore.
05/04/12 Best high school hoops players of past 35 years Source: Philly.com - Philadelphia PA With the idea of focusing solely on the DN era, I have deleted the stars from the 1976 and '77 seasons, some of whom were very prominent on previous lists, and fashioned 35-year teams that include only players from the '78 through 2012 seasons.