Kobe Bryant News

Detroit is a veteran bunch that has usually found ways to win, especially in the playoffs.

The five-county Los Angeles metropolitan area already has two NBA teams, two baseball teams, two pro hockey teams, two major collegiate sports programs and dozens of minor athletic endeavors for a laid-back, West Coast population that doesn’t obsess over sports in the first place.

Like most of the others, the Sixth Man Award is pretty vague. Is it for a player that actually is the sixth guy in the rotation? Is it for a bench player, exclusively? Can a guy that started almost half his team’s games win it? According to the rules, yes.

A newly released video has the internationally known NBA star assuming the role of a quick thinking/driving man of both style and action with a keen sense of aim.

For a game defined by a fast pace, it certainly took a long time to reach a conclusion.

The debate as to who is the best player ever to don a pair of ball kicks continues on as the true fans of the game know that the talk is just that… TALK .

The home stretch to the playoffs are upon us and for those paying attention, the battle for the top spot in the West is still up for grabs, and the Lakers look ready to take it.

Asia Pacific News.Net Thursday 31st March, 2011 NBA players have donated more than $250,000 to Direct Relief International’s Japan Relief and Recovery Fund.

Although one more weekend of March Madness still remains, Jimmer-mania finally has come to a halt.

The Los Angeles Lakers were able to pull off the rare feat of hosting representatives from the religious and secular worlds with equal aplomb at Wednesday’s practice.

As the regular season draws to a close, one question still remains for the Lakers.

Derrick Rose is expected to join Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant as former McDonald’s All-Americans who went on to be named the NBA’s MVP.

Some people love to point out that Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant owes much of his success over the past three seasons to the Lakers’ ability to acquire forward Pau Gasol early in 2008.

Kevin Ding column : Andrew Bynum turned the corner on his career and this Lakers season with the advice of sports psychology consultant George Mumford, sent to Bynum by Phil Jackson in perhaps the all-time great’s last great gesture as a coach.

Remember those days leading into the All-Star break when the walls were crumbling around the Lakers ? They lost three straight road games.