Out Here Ballin’

Rediscovering my love of the world's best basketball league, and the Lakers of Los Angeles, California.

Probably my favourite Gotye cover yet, so very “inside-baseball” (um inside-basketball) but brilliant, made better by him wearing a Gasol shirt.

Kobye - The Kobe That We Used To Know (Gotye- Somebody That I Used To Know Parody) (by ZzyzxFamProduct)

Always

Always

I know a lot of franchises are happy to get to the first round or advance beyond the first round. We certainly did no worse than we did a year ago, but we’re disappointed. That’s not how we grade ourselves, getting into the second round.

Never any different. Kupchak: Lakers Will Pursue Trades « NBA.com | Hang Time Blog

BIG- Spurs Playoff Promo (by NBA)

Awkward

Awkward

With a sixth ring, Kobe only has to break the scoring record and become the owner of an NBA team that disgraces itself by finishing 5-77 to truly threaten Jordan’s throne.

LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, the Spurs and more storylines from the 2012 NBA Playoffs - Grantland

On August 27, 1946, in a minor bullring in Linares, a Podunk lead-mining town in southern Spain, Manuel Laureano Rodriguez, known as Manolete, was mortally wounded, gored in the right leg by a nasty bull that insisted on radically departing from the script.

The loss of Ricky Rubio for the Minnesota Timberwolves - Grantland

Kobe Bryant Drills 3, Points Finger Gun @ Jordan Farmar - Nets @ Lakers 4/3/2012 (by nbaus3030)

Poor Landry Fields

BIG: Kobe Bryant (by NBA)

Welcome Back Fish (by LakersTwitter)