On this day in 2002... the Los Angeles Lakers became just the 5th team in NBA history to win 3 consecutive NBA titles!
▪ Shaq: 36.3 PPG, 12.3 RPG and 2.8 BPG for the series, winning his 3rd straight NBA Finals MVP🤯
▪ Kobe: 26.8 PPG, 54.5 3P%, third-youngest player to win 3 rings💍
▪ Phil Jackson: 9th title, completing the 3-peat for the 3rd time in his career 🏆
@GlobalDanceGDE This is me, I do this. And the water bottle in the pack pocket, been doing that for so long, not sure when that started lol. Been raving since 2012
The three illegal practices:
— Allegedly hiding fees from customers until check out
— Allegedly allowing ticket brokers to “exceed” the limits artists place on ticket sale quantity
— Defendants earning “hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue by systematically violating” the BOTS (Better Online Ticket Sales) Act.
More: https://t.co/m8uYz21SPJ
The Federal Trade Commission also said one internal review found that five brokers alone controlled 6,345 Ticketmaster accounts, accumulating 246,407 concert tickets to 2,594 different events.
Kyrie Irving defends Kobe Bryant’s legacy after some recent criticism ✊
“I’m not letting people come on and talk about Kobe like Kobe wasn’t one of the best that not only played, but that came in as a 17-year-old against grown men,” Nine-time All-Star Kyrie Irving stated. “And by the time this man was 22 years old, he had a few championships and he was busting the best of the best (expletive). If y’all don’t knock that (expletive) off. I’m talking to y’all at home, the (expletive) media talking heads, the ones that casually, casually throw names around. Bro, if you don’t knock it off. You weren’t like that.
“…Not everybody can be Kobe. Not everybody could sit and wear those size shoes that he had. …But when it comes to real respect and real recognizing real, this man Kobe Bean Bryant — he’s immortalized not just because of his basketball,” Irving said.
“That’s what I’m trying to tell y’all. He is way bigger because of his character, because of what we witnessed him go through. We didn’t care about certain failures. The real Kobe fans didn’t care about the failures. They didn’t care about the naysayers. The real Kobe fans, the real Mamba fans that I’m talking to, didn’t care about who he was competing with. We knew who f*** with Kobe and who didn’t. I know who f*** with Kobe and who didn’t.”
(via Twitch)