Pat Bev:
“I hit a shot and said, 'Yeah b*tch!' Grown a** man comes up and says, 'Watch out for that b*tch word'... Came down, hit game on him, and said, 'Get off the court b*tch’. He knocks me out.”
(via @PatBevPod, h/t @ClutchPoints)
I know the outcome was the same tonight, but I feel like everyone forgot just how good Bojan is
He is the second best player on this team. He was your leading scorer last year with Cade out. Second leading scorer tonight and when the Pistons need a bucket, they give him the ball and he gets it
He obviously doesn't solve every issue this team has, but they're not on a 17 game losing streak if he'd been playing
Revisiting Kobe Bryant’s Incredible 2001 WCSF Series against the Kings
After sweeping the Blazers 3-0, the Lakers would match up with a very good Sacramento team in the 2nd Round, a 55 win team who had the 7th Best Defense in the league and an incredible 36-5 Home Record which was #1 in the West
Kobe’s Series Averages
35.0 PPG - 9.0 RPG - 4.3 APG - 1.3 SPG
47.3 FG% - 20.0 3p% - 86.4 FT%
He only Attempted 5 Threes in this Series, mainly doing his damage from the mid range, in the paint and at the FT Line
In Game 1 of the Series, Kobe dropped 29 pts 4 Rebs 5 ast on 10/23 FG and 9/11 from the Line, in this game he started slow by scored 17 in the Third and sunk 4 Clutch FTs at the end to ensure a Lakers win 108-105
In Game 2, Kobe dropped 27 pts 9 Rebs 5 ast with a Steal and a Block on 9/19 FG and 9/10 from the Line, again in this game he went off in the Third for 13 Points as the Lakers used that Quarter to pull away out scoring the Kings 31-13 before ultimately winning 96-90 for a 2-0 Series Lead, Kings made a late run but it never had the game in doubt
Series shifted to Sacramento for Game 3, the Kings who were 36-5 at Home had no answer for Kobe and unlike in 2000, the Lakers took care of business against them on the Road led by Kobe’s 36-7-4 and 2 Steal night on 10/22 FG and 17/19 from the Line, Scoring 26 in the 2nd Half for a 103-81 win
In the Close-Out Game 4, Kobe delivered one of his greatest ever games producing 48 Points and 16 Rebounds (9 Offensive) shooting 15/29 from the Field and 17/19 from the Line for a 119-113 win to complete the sweep as he went off in the 2nd Half again for 28 Points
Remarkably, Kobe averaged 23 PPG on 52.1% FG in the 2nd Half of Games in this Series and additionally 42.5 PPG / 11.5 RPG in the 2 Road Games in Sacramento who had the best home court that season
The first Olmec colossal head was discovered in the 1850s. According to reports, a farmer was clearing the area to make a cornfield when he chanced upon a partially buried stone structure. At first, he thought it was a large cauldron, but as he kept digging and digging, he understood that this was something truly gigantic.
This particular discovery was not well documented, which is why Matthew Williams Stirling is often credited for discovering the first Olmec head in 1938 at Tres Zapotes. This was an archaeological site on the Papaloapan River plain in Mexico.
It prompted a deeper study of the Olmec civilization and culture, which academics referred to as archeological in nature. Archeological culture is when most of what you know about a society is based on artifacts rather than recorded text.
Seventeen colossal Olmec heads have since been found in four archeological sites– Tres Zapotes, San Lorenzo, La Venta, and La Cobata, in two locations, Veracruz and Tabasco. The heads have a height ranging from 1.45 to 3.4 meters, and their weight ranges from six to 40 tons.
And somehow the NBA looked at Ice Cube’s Big 3 league and seen zero opportunity for collaboration despite the Big 3 employing retired NBA hall of famers as players and coaches.
Ministry of Health in Gaza:
7703 Palestinians killed, including 3159 children
17,000+ injured
1,800+ trapped under the rubble
Every day that passes, more families are wiped out and more neighborhoods are decimated. The devastation and pain is unending.
Sacramento police held this 8-year-old little boy and his pregnant mom at gunpoint because the cop thought the kid was a young black man with felonies.