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05-05-2008, 04:01 PM
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Bryant's Heroics Serve As MVP Victory Speech
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LOS ANGELES – Kobe Bryant’s free-throw parade began early Sunday afternoon and lasted until 13 seconds remained. Twenty-three times Bryant stepped to the foul line against the Utah Jazz, so many that the procession seemed to exhaust even the Staple Center’s normally exuberant sellout crowd.
M-V-P! M-V-P! M-V-Phew!
No matter. Bryant has been serenaded nearly every night he’s taken the floor here for the past few seasons. He even heard the chant last week in Colorado, of all places, as he snuffed the life out of the Denver Nuggets. Sunday, however, was different, and it had nothing to do with volume.
M-V-P?
Bryant can officially answer to it now.
“Before,” Bryant said, “it was kind of like, ‘Oh, thanks, but I’m not going to win it anyway.’ ”
That changes Wednesday when NBA commissioner David Stern hands Bryant the Maurice Podoloff Trophy before Game 2 of the Los Angeles Lakers’ Western Conference semifinal against Utah. Knowing Bryant, he’ll graciously accept the award, smile for the cameras and then club the Jazz with the trophy. On Sunday, he totaled 38 points, seven assists and six rebounds, using the Lakers’ series-opening 109-98 victory to validate his candidacy.
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05-05-2008, 06:51 PM
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Re: Bryant's Heroics Serve As MVP Victory Speech
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LOS ANGELES -- The NBA has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday at a Los Angeles hotel, where Kobe Bryant is expected to be announced as winner of his first Most Valuable Player award.
Neither NBA spokesman Mark Broussard nor the Lakers would discuss the subject of the news conference, although the league did refer to it as an NBA Awards Announcement.
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The Los Angeles Times reported last Friday that the 29-year-old Bryant had won the award. League spokesman Brian McIntyre refused to confirm or deny the report on Saturday.
"I didn't know if it was going to come in my career, but to have the moment come now is special, especially to share it with the group of guys we have here," Bryant told reporters Saturday. "We talked about [how] winning this MVP is extremely special because that means I'm doing good. I'm making my teammates better, putting them in a position to win."
Bryant, who entered the season as the league's two-time defending scoring champion, had finished as high as third in the MVP voting twice -- after the 2002-03 campaign, when he averaged 30 points for the first time, and again last year, when Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki won the award and two-time MVP Steve Nash finished second.
Bryant averaged 28.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 1.84 steals while playing in all 82 games despite tearing a ligament in his right pinkie finger in February. A hand specialist recommended surgery, but Bryant decided to put it off until after the Olympics this summer.
Bryant is expected to receive the MVP trophy Wednesday night from commissioner David Stern before the Lakers face the Utah Jazz in Game 2 of their best-of-seven second-round playoff series. The Lakers won the opener 109-98 on Sunday.
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05-06-2008, 02:33 AM
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Re: Bryant's Heroics Serve As MVP Victory Speech
Guys, it might be just my conspiracy theorists kind of thinking, but they're reporting this on every NBA-related site BUT nba.com. Is that what usually happens? Or does nba.com only announce the news when it's 100% official? I find it funny, how Paul is still being touted as "Chris Paul, MVP candidate" in recaps and those Arround the Association thingies if we already know the outcome.
p.s.: imagine if the news conference is for Mitch to present him with the GM of the Year award. 
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kobe isn't a top tier player in the nba...i would rather have ginobili on the spurs than kobe. easily...also a healthy t-mac, lebron, or wade any day of this or any other lifetime.
i would even perfer troy hudson over kobe at this point.
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05-06-2008, 09:12 AM
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Re: Bryant's Heroics Serve As MVP Victory Speech
Every write in America is kissing Kobe's butt..I love it! 
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05-06-2008, 10:47 AM
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Star in the Making
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Re: Bryant's Heroics Serve As MVP Victory Speech
The news conference will be held at 5:30 pm EST on ESPNews.
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