May 13th: Draft prospects Leon Powe and Taj Gray workout for the Lakers. "Tex on Kobe" and others.

 
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PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2006 3:10 am    Post subject: May 13th: Draft prospects Leon Powe and Taj Gray workout for the Lakers. "Tex on Kobe" and others.

Powe shows his pro stuff

Snippet: "?He worked out Wednesday in Los Angeles for a large audience of player evaluators, with at least a dozen NBA teams represented. Reports are that Powe shot well in that workout. On Friday he worked out specifically for the Lakers, with Oklahoma's 6-9 Taj Gray being the other big man in that workout."


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PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2006 3:21 am    Post subject:

Arizona Ire. :roll:
Kobe would be wise to stick with hoops

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May. 13, 2006 12:00 AM

It appears that direct research conducted on May 6 at US Airways Center has disproved Kobe Bryant's theory: Raja Bell has obviously received a sufficient, if not ample, quantity of hugs from his mother, and probability leans toward even more after his defensive performance against Bryant. It also proves that Bryant should keep his day job, as a future in psychotherapy now seems doomed.


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PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2006 3:29 am    Post subject:

Miller: Team shortfall $10M this season

snippet: "Forbes magazine, in its annual franchise valuations last winter, figured that 10 NBA teams lost money in 2004-'05, led by Portland's estimated $31.5 million bath. On the other hand, Phoenix ($44.4 million), the Los Angeles Lakers ($38.2 million) and Chicago ($34.7 million) all cleared $30 million in profits, the magazine calculated.
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PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2006 3:36 am    Post subject:

LeBron, Nash share Sporting News MVP

Snippet: "Of the 28 ballots cast, James and Nash each received eight first-place votes. Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers and Dirk Nowitzki got six apiece."
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PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2006 6:26 am    Post subject:

Tex on Kobe: He's not why we lost
by Roland Lazenby / May 13, 2006

If there’s anyone who should be able to figure out Kobe Bryant, international man of mystery, it ought to be Tex Winter, Bryant’s mentor and a longtime Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach and consultant.

Although the NBA playoffs have moved on, the basketball world remains atwitter in the wake of Bryant taking just three shots in the last half of the Lakers’ Game 7 blowout loss to the Phoenix Suns during their first-round series.

Bryant’s lack of aggressiveness at such a key moment has led to a variety of media figures offering their theories as to what he was doing:

- Some figures have said he was overreacting to heavy criticism from broadcast analyst Charles Barkley;

- Others have said he was pouting because Lakers coach Phil Jackson had admonished him to play team ball;

- Jackson and Bryant both have said that, because a typical Kobe scoring outburst would have proved fruitless, he and his coach were trying to force his young, inexperienced teammates to step up.

Winter himself admitted to being amazed at Bryant’s failure to force the issue in the second half of that game.
The 84-year-old coach had spent most of the first round delighted at Bryant’s leadership of a green Lakers roster that struggled mightily with inconsistency.

“I don’t know what happened to Kobe, taking just three shots in that situation,” Winter said in a phone interview from his Oregon home. “There were times when he had the ball, he didn’t look to do anything, didn’t look to assert himself. He didn’t look to create anything for himself. He did a lot of what we asked him to do for the series, and that was move the ball. Kobe’s the kind of player to always leave people puzzled about his shot selection.”
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