Kobe is a basketball god, whatever his salary is TRIPLE IT

[bettilimbroke999]

I see so much talk about rookies and nobody's gettin record contracts, let me tell ya NO ROOKIE is going to ever have this guys talent, he is fukin supernatural on nights like tonight

[pico]

i like kobe. more white girls for this guy.

[The_Kid]

I felt sorry for Ronnie Brewer.

[bettilimbroke999]

Me 2, never seen a guy work so hard on defense and still be completely owned, he was allover Kobe 20 ft out with the shot clock at 1 hand is face fadeaway on half the shots just to hear "swish" every time, he had to be like wtf do I have to do to stop this monster, has to be in the top 3 greatest of all time, when he's on there is simply no answer for him

They even talked to Sloan during the start of the 2nd half and asked what they were going to change on defense to try to slow Kobe down and he simply said there's nothing we can do, we've never been able to stop him, that's just absolute honesty there's nothing they can do, Kobe is just that good that teams can only slow him down with the double team which frees up one of his teammates for a wide open shot

Can Cleveland stop the Lakers, no, the Lakers will win the whole thing this year

[yisman]

ridiculous performance. Vintage Kobe.

[frostno98]

God doesn't get manhandle in the NBA Finals. Absolutely amazing scorer and exciting player to watch whether you like the Lakers or not, but cannot be mention in the same sentence as MJ, Magic and Bird until he leads his team to a NBA Final championship. Yes he got 3 rings, but as a side kick to Shaq ala Scottie Pippen to MJ, and Kareem late in his career to Magic.

[bettilimbroke999]

The Lakers seem to rely as heavily if not more so on Kobe than the Bulls did on MJ, I really feel like his Pippen which is Gasol is not nearly as good as Pippen and his Rodman which is Odom (or Bynum) is not as strong defensively as Rodman, however with the additions of Gasol and Bynum and the injury to Garnett I really think the Lakers at +120 or whatever it is right now to win it all is a great bet, his performance tonight was one of the best performances I've ever seen in the NBA, absolutely incredible

[Tsoprano]

You know what I loved, I loved seeing the Celtics come from down 20 to beat LA last year in the finals. I also loved to see them beat the Lakers by 39 points in game 6 to win the NBA Championship. Kobe was crying. I loved that.

The Black Mamba was contained by the hand of the Celtics

[bettilimbroke999]

I agree the Celtics with their three All-Stars, Garnett, Pierce and Allen are pretty fukin tough to beat, this year with 1/3 of that team missing it will be very hard to see them beating the Cavs or Lakers

[yisman]

Celtics will lose in the second round if they beat Chicago, which I expect them to do.