What Kobe Bryant said prior to the London Games was actually fairly reasonable: he said the 2012 Olympic basketball team could beat the 1992 team. Not “We’d kill ’em.” We can be sure that he didn’t volunteer it. He was asked, and he answered. That statement was tepidly co-signed by LeBron James. Michael Jordan and…
What’s the deal with Kobe Bryant’s facial expression in the Finals? Or better yet, why did he lose that look? Kobe had what Dr. Jack Ramsay called “that jaw-jutting, vampire look” for the first two games in L.A. The Lakers won both games–the first, because Orlando couldn’t make shots. The second, because despite an admittedly…