NBA news,MICHAEL JORDAN: The Greatest

Jordan highlights show.enjoy this highlights coz NBA game finished.......hahaha

NBA news,Kobe Bryant- "Greatest Champion"

Well here it is. The moment you all have been waiting for. Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, determined all season, win the Larry O'brien trophy and are now your 2009 WORLD CHAMPIONS! I don't know about you guys, but growing up watching the 3-peat, I think this is the greatest championship since the Kobe Era. For the Lakers it's their 15th and for Kobe it's is 4th and counting......

This will be my final mix of the season, but you never know I might throw something else at you. So as always thanks for watching and please subscribe if you haven't yet.

NBA,Special Edition For All Lakers Fans

Lakers 2009 NBA Champions - Special Edition For All Lakers Fans - HD

The Los Angeles Lakers defeat Orlando in Game 5 and become the NBA 2009 Champions.
The celebration on a the court as it should be, with the voice of the Lakers, Spero Dedes and Mychael Thompson.

I made this very special edition video to celebrate the Lakers Championship but most importantly to note the great 32 years of Lakers basketball radio broadcast in Los Angeles by am 570 KLAC Radio.

How bittersweet this is, as we get our 15th, but must say goodbye to this dynamic team of broadcasters as they embark on a new journey.

Special thanks to Chick Hearn (we miss you baby) Stu Lanz, Spero Dedes, Mychael Thopmson, Matt "Money" Smith, Sheron Bellio and everyone else behind the scenes who made each Lakers game radio broadcast a pleasure to listen to.

As Spero Dedes says in the video, ""...basketball immortality for the '09 Los Angeles Lakers.
It is a purple and gold coronation in the magic kingdom tonight!"

Lakers fans agree with you Spero, as we think the world of you guys. Best of luck next year.

am570 KLAC, home of the Lakers forever!!

NBA ,Lakers champagne shower celebration

Lakers celebrate in the locker room with champagne showers.
Phil Jackson winning his 10th NBA Championship
The L.A. Lakers and Kobe Bryant win Game 5 of the 2009 NBA Finals.they used to hv shaq doing all the singing while pouring champagne. this group is a little bit more introverted. this team being more internationally-oriented might be the reason.

NBA ,Kobe Bryant at Lakers Coliseum Celebration

Lakers guard Kobe Bryant addresses the crowd at the championship celebration held today at the Coliseum in Los Angeles. the LAPD reported 85,000 present at the Coliseum that day...but it holds 95,000..

did u notice all the empty seats near the Laker court? safety precautions i guess
lol

hopefully Dodgers will follow the Laker parade into the Coliseum! haha
that's the new Parade zone!

Next year the USC trojan band is leading the LAKER parade! COOL!

Lakers finish off Magic in five games for 15th championship

Lakers finish off Magic in five games for 15th championship

ORLANDO, Fla. -- After his jump shot cleared the outstretched hand of Hedo Turkoglu and buried itself in the back of the net, Lakers guard Kobe Bryant turned and pumped his fist. Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy called a timeout. He should have waved a white flag. Though more than eight minutes remained, the smile on Bryant's face as he jogged to the Los Angeles bench explained everything. The Lakers were minutes away from clinching the NBA title, and Bryant had led them there.

Equal parts respected and reviled, Bryant finally emerged from Shaquille O'Neal's massive shadow Sunday. Bryant, the winner of three titles this decade as the sidekick to O'Neal, cemented his place in basketball history Sunday as the unquestioned on-court leader of a championship team and a Finals MVP. His Lakers stomped the Magic 99-86 to win the series 4-1 and claim the 15th title in franchise history.

"It felt like a big old monkey was off my back," Bryant said. "It felt so good to be able to have this moment. We tried not to envision it too much because you just get too excited. You try not to think about it, just think about playing the game, and for this moment to be here and to reflect back on the season and everything that you've been through, it's the top of the list, man."

After winning his 10th title, Lakers coach Phil Jackson finds himself atop another list. Jackson, who previously won six titles with Michael Jordan and the Bulls and three with the O'Neal-Bryant Lakers, broke a tie with Celtics legend Red Auerbach and set a new NBA record for championships by a coach.

"I'll smoke a cigar tonight in memory of Red," Jackson said after the Lakers received their championship trophy.

The Lakers, whether they were led by George Mikan, Magic Johnson, O'Neal or Bryant, have spent plenty of time atop the NBA. As the Minneapolis Lakers, they won the title in the NBA's first season in 1950. The 2008-09 title is the first since Bryant, Jackson and O'Neal teamed to lead Los Angeles to three consecutive titles from 2000-02. Jackson retired after the Lakers lost the 2004 Finals to Detroit, and the Lakers traded O'Neal to the Heat after electing to build around Bryant.

Jackson returned a year later, and the Lakers made the Finals in 2008, where they fell to Boston in six games. This year, the Lakers nearly mirrored last year's Celtics, winning the first two at home, dropping Game 3 on the road and storming back from a seemingly insurmountable deficit to win Game 4. The only difference? The Lakers didn't need a sixth game.

The Magic led for most of Sunday's first quarter, and they had a 40-36 lead in the second before Lakers guard Derek Fisher hit a three-pointer to launch a 16-0 run. Forward Trevor Ariza, whom the Magic traded to the Lakers in November 2007, scored seven of his 15 points during the run. The Lakers went into halftime up 10. They stretched the lead to 15 to end the third and seemingly put the game out of reach when Bryant hit the jumper over Turkoglu with 8:13 remaining to give the Lakers an 83-67 lead.

Bryant scored a game-high 30 points and finished with a 32.4-point average for the Finals. Pau Gasol, the 7-foot Spaniard whose arrival from Memphis late last season seemed to be the final piece in the Lakers' championship puzzle, scored 14 points and grabbed 15 rebounds. Rashard Lewis led the Magic with 18 points, while Dwight Howard scored 11 and grabbed 10 rebounds.

The Magic will be left wondering what might have happened had Howard made either of two free throws with 11.1 seconds remaining in Game 4 or if Van Gundy had ordered them to foul immediately after those missed free throws. Instead, Fisher drilled a three-pointer to force overtime. Later, Fisher hit another three to seal the win, and Van Gundy lamented his decision to avoid a free-throw-shooting contest. "That'll haunt me forever," Van Gundy said after Game 4.

If the Magic make prudent moves this offseason, they have the nucleus to return to the Finals next year. Howard will be just 24, and the Magic should have plenty of talent around him. "Certainly Orlando is very capable of coming back to the Finals," Jackson said Sunday. Jackson's team may have provided the motivation the Magic will need to return. Shortly after the game, Howard chatted with point guard Jameer Nelson about just that. "Just see how they're celebrating," Howard said. "It should motivate us. It's like what I told Jameer, 'We were right there at our goal.' Our goal was in reach."

But the Lakers wanted it more. As Fisher dribbled out the clock, Bryant turned and pumped both fists. Seconds later, the Lakers piled into a group hug. Bryant stood in the middle of it all.

"I just don't have to hear that criticism, that idiotic criticism, anymore," Bryant said of never having won a title without Shaq. "That's the biggest thing. I don't have to hear that stuff anymore. ... It feels like I'm dreaming right now. I can't believe this moment is here."

NBA news,Kobe - love him or hate him?

Kobe - love him or hate him?

By Ian Whittell

Phil Jackson, the LA Lakers and, above all others, Kobe Bryant stood on top of the basketball world in Orlando on Sunday.

Yet, in the contest for the hearts and minds of the great American sporting public, Bryant may still be fighting a losing battle.

His 30 points in the 99-86 victory over the Orlando Magic clinched the 2009 NBA title for the Lakers and their 15th championship overall.

Kobe Bryant celebrates NBA success with his wife and daughters

It also secured a record tenth title for their brilliant coach Jackson and the title of Finals MVP for Bryant himself.

It was also Bryant's fourth championship, having been part of the Lakers teams that won titles from 2000-2 alongside the larger-than-life and decidedly off-the-wall Shaquille O'Neal.

Bryant, rightly or wrongly, was later accused of forcing O'Neal out of LA because of his supposed desperation to prove he could be the sole leader of a championship team.

Now, Bryant is exactly that.

But in a nation that tends to idolise its superstars - particularly winners like Michael Jordan and O'Neal himself - Kobe polarises opinion into the 'Love Him' or 'Hate Him' camps.

Bryant's much-publicised brush with the law in Colorado in 2003, when he was accused of raping a hotel worker, did not help his public persona, even though charges were eventually dropped.

Much of mainstream America may now have re-embraced the 30-year-old, his shoe company, for example, running a huge advertising campaign throughout these NBA play-offs featuring a Kobe puppet.

Right now, it really feels like a dream, it feels unbelievable Kobe Bryant

Still, opposition fans love to bait Bryant and even an embarrassingly fluffy Spike Lee fly-on-the-wall documentary that followed him throughout a recent game did little to improve the perception of Bryant as a player to whom it is hard to warm.

Of course, it hardly helped during these Finals that Bryant has been so focused upon victory, and so miserable for his family to be around, that he revealed his children have christened him "Grumpy."

The in-your-face TV coverage of the games also frequently showed Bryant berating team-mates during time-outs, trying to will them to match his own imperious standards.

Bryant's curious public standing also explains why many pundits were quick to point out a couple of sub-par outings from him against Orlando, where fatigue or, perhaps, old age seemed to be taking their toll late in games.

But, whatever the general perception about Bryant, Game Five showed him at his very best, bringing team-mates into play when necessary then making the key plays that set the tone at vital stages of the game.

Bryant's talents are unquestioned

A outlandish dunk on his marker Mickael Pietrus was the spark for the Lakers pulling away in the second period and building a 56-46 interval lead.

An equally outrageous spinning baseline move in the third put LA up by 11.

And a devastating three-pointer in the fourth period eased the Lakers 16 points up and removed any lingering danger.

"You grow as person, grow as man and try to figure out best way to lead these guys," said Bryant of his development over the past nine years since his first championship.

"This means everything. We sacrificed so much, put in so much time, so much effort, they are a group of guys who are like brothers to me and now we can enjoy it together.

"It was just the challenge of it that drove me on. It's so tough, it's a world championship and you have to start from scratch every year.

"Right now, it really feels like a dream, it feels unbelievable."

Where Bryant goes from here in terms of his public image is unclear - he would not, for example, be the first sportsman on the planet to gain in popularity as he mellows and ages.

But one place he is not going is to another NBA team. Bryant, who earned just over $21m from the Lakers this season, can opt out of his contract this summer but, when asked if he was likely to do so, replied with a simple: "No."

Love him or hate him, Kobe Bryant is set to be the NBA's dominant force for some years yet.

NBA news,Lakers edge to win over Orlando

Lakers edge to win over Orlando

NBA highlights - Orlando v Lakers

Kobe Bryant starred again for the Los Angeles Lakers as they claimed an 101-96 overtime win against Orlando to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals.

Bryant led the scoring with 29 points, although his side failed to repeat the domination they enjoyed in their 100-75 victory in the opening game.

This time the Magic could have won in regular time had Courtney Lee's lay-in attempt at the buzzer not rimmed out.

The best-of-seven series now moves to Orlando for up to three games.

"We just drove ourselves through the game," said Lakers coach Phil Jackson.

"I didn't think Kobe had a good game at all as far as his standards go.

"They double teamed him, they trapped him, they came on all his drives, and we didn't adjust to it."

Pau Gasol, who had 24 points and 10 rebounds, scored seven of the Lakers' 13 points in the overtime, which proved to be crucial.

Both sides had previously missed chances to win the game, with Bryant squandering an opportunity when his short jumper with 0.6 seconds left was blocked by Hedo Turkoglu.

After a timeout, Lee failed to hit the target and his team were then outscored 13-8 in the extra session, leaving the Lakers on track for their 15th NBA title and first since 2002.

NBA highlights - Plays of the day

"I don't think we dodged a bullet," insisted Bryant.

"They bounced back like we knew they would, played extremely well, and we got out of here with a win."

The third game is on Tuesday, and Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy believes his players can hit back.

Van Gundy said: "A series can change. You've got to take it one game at a time.

"It's extremely frustrating. I didn't think we played great, because we had 20 turnovers, but we fought hard. We had chances to win. We didn't get it done."

NBA latest news for fan ,Kobe Bryant: Top 10 Plays from 2009

Visit http://www.nba.com/video for more highlights. Check out the newest version of the Kobe Bryant Top 10 Plays from 2009. The Finals begin Thursday at 9pm.

NBA news,Kobe Bryant vs Melo Nuggets

Kobe Bryant 35pts vs Melo Nuggets 08/09 NBA Playoff Game 6 *Lakers 4-2 *2009 NBA Finals

One-half of the Kobe-LeBron dream matchup is set.


Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers are in the NBA Finals for the second straight year and record 30th time overall.LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers will need two more wins to join them. Otherwise, it will be Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic on the league's biggest stage.

Not as sexy for Madison Ave., but certainly intriguing.

Bryant and the Lakers dispatched Carmelo Anthony and the pesky Denver Nuggets with a 119-92 victory in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals on Friday night."We saved our best game for last here, or maybe we caught our opponent a little bit off stride," said Lakers coach Phil Jackson, who gets a shot at his record 10th title.

Bryant had 35 points and 10 assists and got plenty of scoring help from Trevor Ariza, Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom as the Lakers shot 57.3 percent from the field to avoid having to play a Game 7 back at the Staples Center.

They will finally get some much-needed rest after playing every other day for a grueling two weeks.

These Lakers, who are seeking their 15th title, are a more grizzled group -- but also more bruised and battered -- than the one that fell to Boston in the finals last year.

"Now we're in a place where we didn't get the job accomplished last year," Bryant said. "Hopefully we will this time."

Instead of cruising through the West this time, the Lakers survived an arduous seven-game semifinal series against Houston and another test against Denver.

"It's been a physical march all the way back to the finals, every series has been tough," Bryant said.

The Magic lead 3-2 and can clinch the Eastern Conference finals on Saturday night at home in Game 6 and prevent that Kobe-LeBron matchup that has basketball fans and corporate sponsors atwitter.

The finals begin Thursday, at Los Angeles if Orlando wins, and at Cleveland if the Cavaliers prevail.

Anthony led the Nuggets with 25 points and J.R. Smith added 24, but Denver trailed for all but a few seconds and never mounted a serious charge after halftime, although they kept hitting 3-pointers, finishing 8-of-19 from beyond the arc.

This was the Nuggets' eighth consecutive loss in a playoff elimination game.

Odom and Gasol both scored 20 points and Ariza had 17, and the Lakers made all 24 of their free throws and were 9-of-16 on 3s.

"We are really tough to beat because we're using all our weapons, not focusing on Kobe or myself," said Gasol, who had 12 rebounds and six assists. "We have a really good team and need to use everybody. That is how we are going to win it."

The Lakers might very well have been swept by the energetic Nuggets if veterans Anthony Carter and Kenyon Martin hadn't botched inbounds passes in the final seconds of Games 1 and 3, respectively.

Bryant didn't wait for the fourth quarter Friday night to give the Nuggets, who had posted eight postseason blowouts, a taste of their own medicine.

He scored 11 points in a decisive 21-7 run that gave the Lakers a 53-40 halftime lead, took the buzz out of the Pepsi Center and the air out of the Nuggets.

"We had the effort and the execution to match," Bryant said. "It took us a while to really get a feel for the team, just how to take advantage of the defense. We saw something how they were playing us and we executed extremely well."

Bryant started his run with two free throws, then hit a jumper over Smith. After Ariza's 3-pointer, Bryant made baskets over Anthony from the left and right corners on the next two possessions, then capped the run with a dagger -- a 3-pointer with 4.1 seconds left following Gasol's offensive rebound.

The Nuggets trimmed their deficit to 79-67 but the Lakers replied with a 9-0 run to restore their stranglehold. Bryant scored seven straight points, including a 3-pointer that made it 101-82.