31
Oct
2007
In Case You Didn’t Know…
…The NBA Season kicked off last night with three games, highlighted by…take a wild guess… Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers. I’m an avid basketball fan but I didn’t even realize until a few days ago that the NBA season was about to be upon us. This led me to think, of all the big time sports in the U.S., the NBA has the least hyped or anticipated opening day of any. We all know when college football is about to start. We all DEFINITELY know when the NFL season is about to start because it is talked about everywhere from schools to offices to nursing homes. We all know about the start of the MLB season. Most of us have an idea about the start of college basketball. But the NBA just strolls in on a Tuesday night out of nowhere! I guess this is because they know that they cannot compete with the college football weekend, NFL weekend (especially this year with Pats-Colts), and usually the World Series (barring a sweep). I guess it wouldn’t hurt to try though. I would have watched the Lakers game had it been on Sunday night around 9pm. And would a little advertising the week before the start to your season really hurt Mr.Stern?
Anyway, only thing of significance that you need to know is that Kobe Bryant was booed and booed loudly at the start of the Lakers game against the Houston Rockets.
“So what? Isn’t he booed everywhere other than Los Angeles??”
Yes. He is booed everywhere other than Los Angeles but this game WAS in LA. He was booed early and often in the first quarter, which, given the fact that it’s Kobe Bryant and he’s the most competitive, angriest basketball player on earth, fired him up en route to him dropping 45 points. Those very same fans that jeered him to start were chanting M-V-P by the 4th quarter. The Lakers lost on a late Shane Battier 3 pointer, as Bryant had little help from teammates. Now isn’t that a shocking development?!