It was his late grandfather’s birthday, and his grandmother – who didn’t attend many games because they made her too nervous – had flown down to Los Angeles and was in the arena.
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“He was great and that is the T we need on a nightly basis”, teammate DeMar DeRozan said. “It’s based on where we are as a team”. Defensively, collectively, we’ve all got to get better.
The Pistons started Sunday on a 15-0 run and put any thoughts of a Lakers season sweep to bed early.
Jackson said Tolliver’s rebounding voraciousness on a night the Pistons outrebounded the Lakers 61-39, their largest differential of the season, left him feeling “bad for anybody on the team that was trying to get them”.
Kyle Lowry led the way for Toronto with 27 points, while Terrence Ross had a promising 22-point night while starting for Carroll, and Bismack Biyombo was the leading rebounder with 13, along with 15 points. Great coaching right? Byron says they can still learn from watching on the bench! really Byron? Kobe Bryant missed much of the pregame warmups while battling a stomach bug and it showed during the game as he finished with just five points on two of 15 shooting.
“It’s really important for kids to understand you can not hold on to the last play”, Bryant said.
The night Kobe Bryant shockingly dropped 81 points on the Toronto Raptors, he said, will go down as one of the most memorable moments of his career. “This entire process has made me more mature”, Bryant said about the reception he has received on his farewell tour. It helped me realize how fortunate Ive been to play this sport..
Russell is believed to be one of the two best point guards in the 2015 NBA Draft, with Emmanuel Mudiay being the other one. He now ranks fourth in scoring among rookies at 11.0 points per game.
The Toronto Raptors will face the Orlando Magic at The O2 on January 14 as part of NBA Global Games London 2016. “It was tough, because that’s the league’s ultimate competitor, and now he’s winding down”, Jackson said. “Our control is to go out there and play hard, like we’ve been doing, and just keep getting better”. That has started with benching young talent as trades could following in the coming weeks. Metta World Peace was on the bench and didnt get involved as Marcus Morris quickly broke things up. But Toronto did not feature any of Bryant’s highlights of that game for its video tribute commemorating Bryant’s career, something a league source said was determined by the Raptors front office.
Young agreed, saying he was frustrated by the score more than the foul itself.
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Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant passes the ball against the Atlanta Hawks at Philips Arena. Whether that’s the GM, the coach or the players, it’s got to be directed somewhere.
