He Musta Lost His Mind!

A gmail chain from last night:



Andy Orfalea to Tim, Kevin, Colin, Blake, Peter
9:46 PM (13 hours ago)

Just got home from work to see there was 1:40 left to play in the Lakers-Kings game. Lakers up 94-92. Let me give a brief description of what transpired:

No one can make a play down the stretch. Kobe is apparently in severe pain, his left arm or something. He's been shooting the ball primarily with his left hand according to the announcers. Ok anyways they battle but it comes down to about 15 seconds left and the score is tied 94-94. Kings shoot, miss and foul Pau Gasol on the rebound. He clanks the first free throw. I see Kobe give him his fist (of course from his left arm, and the way he reached across the lane he was just trying to make it obvious hes using his left arm). Pau seems unfazed and will for sure knock the second one down, he's 88% on the season....second shot, claaaank. So game tied kings ball. After a timeout Tyreke gets the ball and does the classic wind the clock down at midcourt while the crowd goes absolutely insane and the defender gets into position, just a great nba scene, very gladiator-esque. And who's defending Tyreke? Kobe. Of course. He looks so fucking intimidating even on defense. Tyreke winds it down until about 6 seconds then starts to shake and bake but doesn't really go anywhere. With about 2 seconds Tyreke tries one last dribble and spin to get a shot off. And of course Kobe reaches in and makes an incredible steal. Just for good measure he pounces on the ball like a fucking madman as the horn sounds. He holds the ball to his chest (with his left arm, of course) as his teammates help him up. Then this is the best part. As they go to commercial the camera zooms in on Kobe sitting on the bench drinking water and you can clearly read his lips "Is he fucking crazy? Is he crazt?" And he just has this perplexed look on his face like he's so confounded as to how Tyreke Evans would challenge him like that. He just shook his head and kept saying shit like "mother fucker must be insane". And they went to commercial and just fucking lost it. Rewinded it on tivo a couple times then decided to write this email. I fucking LOVE the NBA.


Blake Kobashigawa to me, Tim, Kevin, Colin, Peter
3:58 AM (7 hours ago)
AO, it is 347am on the left coast - I had to stay up and watch that
game on dvr. I actually laughed out loud when kobe put the stop on
tyreke, started shaking his head, gave ty the dikembe finger wag and,
as mentioned, uttered the phrase "is he fuckin crazy?". But it wasn't
just that, it was the look of sheer and utter disgust on kobes face -
as if tyreke was trying to do something absolutely absurdly
impossible, like turn water into gasoline or something. Swag was just
off the charts. Wow. Kobe almost made me forget that we shat the bed
on national tv on jesus' bday. Oh right, fuck.