Kobe and Lakers fight back
April 5, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under Cleveland Cavaliers, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Los Angeles Lakers
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There is no way that Cleveland was going to get home court advantage in the NBA playoffs. Not in this year, they were just not ready, they had too many holes in their team and all they really added was Mo Williams. Maybe we forgot about LeBron James and how bad he wants it.
Kobe Bryant has not forgotten. Kobe could see that the Cavaliers were ready and lately the Lakers have been looking up at the Cavaliers. Now it was time to do something about it. With home court advantage may come the individual MVP award as well. It is really down to Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.
Kobe has his sights set on Cleveland
Kobe just had a huge game against the Rockets to move within 1 game of the Cavaliers.
Though the public race has been too close to call for much of the season – a Yahoo! Sports’ fan poll taken two weeks ago drew more than 240,000 votes with Kobe and LeBron each netting 38 percent of the results – there was growing sentiment among the official media voters that James had done enough to keep Bryant from a repeat win. Few expected the Cavs to be this good, and if they finished with a better record than the Lakers then how could Bryant be the more worthy candidate?
If nothing else, Bryant’s performance against the Rockets should now make voters hold onto their ballots until the final day of the regular season. The Lakers also beat the Cavs in both of their meetings, a talking point that figures to occupy the top line of Bryant’s résumé should the teams finish the season with the same record.
“I think you wait until the end of the year and whoever has the better record, you give it to,” Battier said. “The arguments are so parallel.
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