<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Bryant, a notorious gunner, repeatedly has said that his words about Arenas's shooting were taken out of context. "That was somebody who just didn't understand the game of basketball and took that and misinterpreted that. Because when I said that, that was a high compliment because there's not too many players around the league that can have that type of explosiveness," Bryant said this week. "So when you say a player doesn't have a conscience, you mean that with the utmost of respect. That means they can go out there and have the confidence to put the ball up and get hot. But they chose to write it and interpret it in a wrong way and they went and ran with it." Bryant added that he and Arenas have a "mutual respect" for each other. "Everything I hear about him and understand about him is that he's a really hard worker. He puts the time in the gym, much like myself. You can't help but have respect for a player like that. So for somebody to try to create something that's a rift or something like that, just a made-up rift, is a bunch of b.s."</div> Link
Kobe vs Arenas should be hella tight. I have to work for probably the first hour or so of the game, so I'm going to TiVo it. Honestly, I'm pulling for the Lakers to win, but Arenas to win the 1 on 1 battle.
