Ballin’: Kobe Raises Middle Finger to Mark Cuban After Torching Mavericks
LA Lakers 103, Dallas 99: Kobe’s most dominant national television performance of the season – 38-12-7, insane 2nd half shooting – was followed by an “Amnesty THAT” tweet, which was directed at Mark Cuban. Reminder – the Lakers win, their third straight, came against the lottery-bound Mavericks. I’m certain 74% of you will enjoy that 5-minute reel of Kobe from the game.
New Orleans 110, Sacramento 95: Greivis Vasquez had 12 assists, Anthony Davis had 20 points, the bench scored 45 points, and man, the you’ve gotta suck to get blasted by the Pelicans.
Golden State 100, Minnesota 99: Jarrett Jack came off the bench to contribute 23 points and eight assists, and the Warriors won their third straight. Check this line from Ricky Rubio (and the pass above): three baskets, 16 points, 11 assists, eight rebounds, six steals, six turnovers.
Miami 109, Cleveland 105: The Heat have won 11 in a row. Dion Waiters, the rookie from Syracuse, had the move of the night.
Memphis 76, Brooklyn 72: After the Rudy Gay trade, I noted how the schedule eased up. Well, now they’ve won seven in a row. They probably don’t win this if Joe Johnson plays.
New York 99, Philadelphia 93: So what that Jrue Holiday scored 30 points? The real news here is that after Andrew Bynum scrimmaged with the team, it was determined that he was far, far away from playing. There’s just no point in playing this year, so hit the free agent market, and let him be someone else’s problem. Carmelo took 18 free throws; the 76ers took 20.

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February 25th, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Be interesting to think where Philly would be this season had they not traded away Iggy and more importantly Vucevic.
I know a lot of people love Jamal Crawford, but Jarret Jack gets my imaginary 6th Man of the Year vote.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:02 AM
I had no idea he was still in the NBA. Good for him carving out a niche. Always liked him at Tech.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:05 AM
andrew bynum isn’t in playing shape? No way!
February 25th, 2013 at 11:07 AM
The Magic might get the most lotto balls. They lost to the Cavs by about 20 on the weekend.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:08 AM
so, jarret jack: off the chain!
February 25th, 2013 at 11:11 AM
Hey lady, if you work for a Christian college, don’t be surprised when you get fired for having premarital sex. It’s kind of what isn’t supposed to happen. Also, you seem to want publicity since you hired Gloria Allred
February 25th, 2013 at 11:12 AM
Miami 109, Cleveland 105: The Heat have won 11 in a row. Dion Waiters, the rookie from Syracuse, had the move of the night.
CJ Miles outscored the entire heat team to close out the 3rd. Cavs shoudla won.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:14 AM
Kobe was great in the 4th. For a while, James and Carter matched him shot for shot though, and then the refs just gave the game to L.A. with two terrible techs and an imaginary foul. Would have liked to see Kobe win it on his own.
New commenter name for vez?
February 25th, 2013 at 11:15 AM
Maybe. Howeva, if Robin Lopez had been more productive last night, they win anyway.
Nevertheless, a win’s a win. Memphis has Dallas at home on Wed, then they head to South Beach to play the LeBrons Friday night.
My Grizz aren’t pretty, but not that long ago they were 22-60. “What do you want from live”?
February 25th, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Kobe was going up for rebounds like his life depended on it.
Also, the Mavs lost because with about a minute or two left in the guy, they decided to let VINCE CARTER single cover Kobe. Kobe jab stepped and scored on him one time, and the other time faked him out of his shoes and nailed an open jumper. Game.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:21 AM
Oh, yeah. One more thing. The Grizz have 11 home games/16 road games the rest of the season. NBA on the road ain’t that easy.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:22 AM
The sequence of events was already in motion… without those three calls earlier, they have a margin for error there. But yeah, I saw Kobe eyeing up Carter and just thought ‘uh oh’ and he didn’t disappoint.
I think the Lakers were a bunch of whiny bitches for their comments on a hypothetical… it’s not like the whole world hasn’t asked if they should amnesty Kobe. He costs twice as much (after taxes) as LeBron… But I did enjoy seeing him go into killer mode, and thought it was a solid tweet.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:23 AM
They called two iffy travels on Kobe and a three second call, followed by a completely bogus moving pick on Dwight all in the span of 3 minutes. Officials were horrible
February 25th, 2013 at 11:23 AM
jarret jack off
New commenter name for vez?
sheeeeet, i’m done changing names like some folks change avatars
/for now
hey karma, where have you been?
February 25th, 2013 at 11:23 AM
glad Jeff Green could follow up his 31 point performance with a 11 pt performance on 4-12 shooting…………………………..
February 25th, 2013 at 11:24 AM
secretly watching hockey
February 25th, 2013 at 11:25 AM
That’s true, there was a clear make-up call about 30 seconds afterwards. They missed Dirk getting hit though and T’d him up right after for pointing it out. Indefensible.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:26 AM
WWS, that was a fantastic second half, and the refs did everything they could do to derail it.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:26 AM
wade was playing like a young man yesterday
February 25th, 2013 at 11:26 AM
more active but still whining?
February 25th, 2013 at 11:30 AM
Just busier with my work schedule.
I still lurk on the site from time to time but its more difficult to comment. However, I am excited at the fact that we are exceeding our cap of 17 comments on Ballin today.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:31 AM
Kobe wasn’t exactly taking easy shots, either. He was making killer shots, then James/Carter getting easy shots in the middle of their D. For once, I don’t think TBL was exaggerating at all. He was amazing in the fourth.
I also just thought Nash-Kobe were a terrible combo. It just looked awkward and inefficient, and they had to choose before the possession who would run the offense. I guess it’s still sort of early, but that is an experiment I’d abort, and just use Nash only when Kobe is off the court… he doesn’t have it in him to just be a spot-up shooter. Kobe wants to create his own shot, he’s not gonna run around and hope a PG gets him the ball in a good shooting area.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:31 AM
i keep this, jmac
February 25th, 2013 at 11:31 AM
Those two Ts on Dallas were so laughable though. I am convinced Ken Mauer was Tim Donoughy-ing it.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:41 AM
I agree about the awkwardness.
Also, Nash doesn’t even seem like Nash with that haircut.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:53 AM
Nash has to dominate the ball to be effective. He’s not dominating anything in an offense that involves Kobe Bryant. He needs to settle for a role of being a spot up shooter, and running an occassional pick n roll with D Howard. If he can’t do that, he’s useless.