Word: kobe
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...Perhaps one of the most prominent of these stars is Kobe Bryant. At an Olympic press conference in August, he said that he would leave the Los Angeles Lakers for Europe if he received around $50 million dollars from a foreign team to play for one season. Another possibility for the three-time NBA champion is to be both an owner and player for a team in Milan. Twenty-four year-old sensation and Nike cover-boy Lebron James has also expressed interest in such lucrative contracts. With Kobe Bryant and Lebron James leading the pack, other players may follow...
...Every day, OneSeason rolls out IPOs of new players, which now includes everyone from Kobe Bryant to Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler. (Saturday hockey star Sidney Crosby debuts!) Each IPO is priced at $5 per share, and after that, the share price is determined by basic supply and demand. Fantasy sports enthusiasts, who are used to obsessing over player stats, may be surprised to find that prices aren't tied to specific performance criteria - touchdowns, home runs, rebounds. So if Peyton Manning throws five touchdown passes on Sunday, his price won't automatically shoot...
...almost had to eat them. During the first seven games of this Olympic tournament, the U.S. walloped every opponent by an average of 30.3 points per game. Spain, the defending world champion, had already suffered its humiliation, a 37-point loss to the Americans in the preliminaries. James, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade: the Americans just had too much. Most fans expected another yawner...
...would have if Kobe had been kept out of China. "Everyone knows Kobe wants the ball down the stretch," says Gasol, Bryant's teammate with the Los Angeles Lakers. "They did what they were supposed to do." Namely, feed Bryant the ball. But unlike past years, Kobe didn't hog it every time. On the next four trips, Bryant made one of those wild shots in the lane that only he can hit, assisted on a three pointer, dropped a slick pass to Dwight Howard for an easy dunk, and a drained a trey...
...Later in the first quarter, Scola hip-checked Kobe Bryant like a hockey goon. Bryant whaled, to no avail. Play on. "They tried to rattle us up out there," says Carmelo Anthony, who scored 21 points on a perfect 13-13 from the free throw line. "We did a hell of a job keeping our composure. I'm glad - it could have gotten ugly...