Kobe Bryant

July 30, 2012 – Allen Moll With more than 50 million users worldwide, the photo sharing program, ‘Instagram’, has become very popular among celebrities, especially NBA players.  Players like JaVale McGee, showing us more of his wackiness, and All Star Kevin Love have been especially busy on Instagram, with Love posting several pics of Team [...]

July 25, 2012 – Ben Berry Back when Kobe Bryant was with adidas he was known to be steadily rocking the Top Ten 2000. If this colorway was around when he was putting on for the Stripes, we would definitely seen Kobe lace these up on the hardwood; number 8 and all. This sneaker dropped [...]

July 17, 2012 – Dan Favale The Los Angles Lakers continue to make a wealth of noise this offseason. As ingenious and polarizing as Steve Nash’s acquisition was, it didn’t strengthen the Lakers bench, which was the deepest root of purple and gold’s string of problems last season. But that’s okay, because Los Angeles has [...]

July 9, 2012 – Ben Berry Being in a position to get professional athletes to sign memorabilia is always an experience. No matter who you are, just the allure of having something signed by the person who had a hand in making that product [...]

July 6, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Every once in a while THD staff stumble across some pretty nice basketball related swag. Aside from our usually obsession with kicks, we don’t often get excited about random gear. But with the upcoming Olympics and NBA Fans everywhere getting exciting about the prospect of Kevin Durant, Lebron [...]

July 6, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Just when it looked like the sun was setting on the fantastic careers of aging MVP’s Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash, an odd twist of fate has paired them together on the Lakers in a quest for Bryant’s 6th ring and Nash’s 1st. Now that the Los Angeles [...]

July 4, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Just when you thought the Raptors, Knicks, or Mavericks were the frontrunners to land Steve Nash this offseason, the LA Lakers once again sneak in and steal one of the available marquee players in the league. [...]

June 28, 2012 – Dan Favale It was inevitable. As hard as the Los Angeles Lakers tried to create a championship stopgap, their roster simply wasn’t fit for title contention. So let the pillaging begin. [...]

June 20, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors As we prepare for Game 5 of the 2012 NBA Finals, here are the Top 10 Individual Performances in NBA Finals’ Game 5’s over the last 20 years (1991-2011): 10. 2009 Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol (Los Angeles Lakers) Closing out Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic in [...]

May 31, 2012 – Allen Moll It’s not often, if ever that a baller from 8th grade gets his game compared to that of future NBA Hall of Famer and 5 time NBA Champion Kobe Bryant. After all, the “Black Mamba” is only known as arguably the 2nd best shooting guard in league history behind [...]