Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers a distant third with 146,335.
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Bryant and the Lakers were struggling mightily, with Kobe’s body appearing to fail him.
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The biggest reason for the Lakers (5-23) collapsing entailed the Thunder (20-9) completing a 40-4 run midway through the second and third quarters. Bryant, who scored 13 points in the second quarter, hit a jumper to give the Lakers a 44-43 lead with 4:05 left before intermission.
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After all the buildup and chippiness going on during the game, that should have been the proverbial last straw for both players. Although Irvin understands why Beckham is angry, he believes the 23-year-old athlete should learn hot to control his emotions.
“There was a lot of energy in the place”, Bryant said. I mean the way I went about it is different. It’s kind of become a part of our family routine.
Bryant, a 17-time All-Star, has received 719,235 votes.
Redick had 14 points and Jordan had nine points and 14 rebounds for the Clippers.
The Clippers have established themselves as LA’s top basketball team this season, so it should come as no surprise that they were able to muster a 94-84 win over the Lakers last night. Each coach rested their starters for the entire fourth quarter with the game out of reach. Westbrook and Serge Ibaka each scored 14 points in the half, offsetting 17 by Bryant.
The Clippers missed 15 of their first 18 shots in the final period.
“With what he’s done with his career, he should be on the All-Star team”, Rivers said prior to his team’s Christmas Day showdown against the Lakers.
“At that particular time, when it got to about the 6-minute mark, he had been sitting for quite a while”, Scott said.
“In Phoenix, why the hell I was guarding him at 36, 37, I don’t know”, Hill told Sporting News.
Out of all of the players who started during the 2010 Finals series between the Celtics and Lakers, only Metta World Peace remains with the same team.
James, the Indiana Pacers’ Paul George (283,785) and the Detroit Pistons’ Andre Drummond (148,278) pace the East’s frontcourt players. “You can think, ‘If I still with the game plan, I have a chance of making their life hard and doing a good job.’ But with Kobe, he was so good, you could throw all the analytics out the window, you could forget trying to play against his tendencies and all of that. So that was encouraging”. Needless to say, the drafting of Durant and Westbrook had everything to do with the reversal of fortunes…. “I’ve never played in a Christmas Day game”. There was just nothing I could do.
And from tipoff Wednesday, the two locked horns, going toe-to-toe for long stretches of the first half, with both players clearly enjoying and relishing the matchup. The Lakers are 6-10 on Christmas when Bryant has played, including 0-4 against Miami….
Hill also suffered a devastating ankle injury and infection in 2000 that robbed him of four of his prime years. He didn’t play in Oklahoma City on Saturday because of a sore shoulder, two days after dunking for the first time this season against Houston.
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Bryant wasn’t trying to call out his teammates in the hopes that they put together a winning streak and salvage yet another lost season.
