<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">As Kobe Bryant walked off the floor Thursday at Staples Center, a season-best 52 points in his pocket and the Lakers well on their way to a 132-102 rout of the Utah Jazz, Phil Jackson offered him a high-five and a warm embrace. Did Jackson feel the good karma of his tempestuous guard's magnificent performance? Did he feel the love? How did he feel? "Sweaty," Jackson said, eliciting a laugh from reporters. Bryant felt a quiet satisfaction after his 12th career 50-point game, a performance in which he tied his own franchise record for points in a quarter by scoring 30 in the third. He was pleased not because he had proved to anyone ? or himself ? that his surgically repaired knee had finally bounced back to what it had been before, but because he had wanted this game for his team. And for himself. The Lakers' 109-105 loss to Milwaukee on Tuesday grated on his nerves, and he wanted to make amends. He had left the locker room quietly that night, unusual for him. He returned on Thursday with a fierce determination, and like the Kobe of old, the Kobe who looked so familiar to a crowd that chanted "MVP!" as it collectively realized it was witnessing a performance to remember, he delivered. Falling to the Bucks, he said, "motivated me. You have a tough loss like that and an opponent like the Utah Jazz, I tried to get myself mentally prepared. "In the NBA, you have games where you just get in a groove. The team had a tough loss and we had to step up and we just did." Bryant didn't merely step up. He soared. "He had a couple of dunks tonight that were just monstrous," Luke Walton said. "He starts making plays like that, we all just start feeding off him and rolling with him. "Then he started getting the three-point ball. We rode his hot hand until we got a big enough lead." For Bryant, it was simple. "I felt strong enough, healthy enough," he said. "I knew I had to just go for it."</div> Source
latimes.com wrote: Bryant drops 52 on Jazz The chant began near the end of the third quarter, an unfamiliar roar of approval so far this season at Staples Center. "M-V-P … M-V-P." pshhhh.....Shape, that was all me and my boys. We had that sh!t going the whole night, we were gonna make sure our voice was heard, esp at the end of the 3rd. THe arena was echoing MVP. I had the game recorded on dvr TNT HD, it was so loud, I loved it. I also loved when Marv Albert said "This crowd is chanting M-V-P....only 15 games into season" or something like that. Then Steve Kerr says, "Well I'm ready to give the MVP award" hahhaa. Then AGAIN......Steve Kerr also said "Smush Parker was an underrated defender" last night, LOL!
Illmatic, are you mexican? I saw some crazy-ass mexicans wildin out on TV (while cheering M-V-P)! lmao.
lmao, nah wasn't us. I'm persian, but everyone thinks I look white. If you saw them on TV, it wasn't us, cuz i watched the game later on TNT HD. Pretty much everyone eventually started chanting MVP, lol That's why I love the nosebleed section, You can do whatever the hell you want, and ENJOY the game so much, and actually MAKE A DIFFERENCE. I feel like if you're sitting up close, like in the 100 section, u can't act a fool, cuz everyone around you would be like "uhhhhhh, what is this guy doing" Last game I went to was the Miami game, so it was really nice to choose a good game to go to, lol.
I was seating in section 113 it was awesome seing Kobe score 30 points in the 3rd quater. He just makes it seem to easy...I was even calling the shots before they were going in...people were like WTF. Before the ball even went into the basket I was like that's IN BABY! What an idiot I forgot to TIvo it. Special thanks to my wifey for getting me the tix.
