For the second straight year, the LA Lakers captured the NBA championship with a grueling seven-game NBA Finals series against the Celtics.
For their efforts, each player and important figure of the team was given a bling-bling worthy of champions, the 2010 Lakers championship ring!
With the ultimate NBA champion Bill Russell personally giving him the trophy named in his honor, Kobe Bryant took home his second consecutive NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award after leading the Los Angeles Lakers in becoming just the seventh team in NBA history to win a championship after facing a 3-2 deficit.
In the deciding Game 7, Kobe made up for an otherwise poor shooting night (going 6-of-24) by grabbing 15 rebounds and going 11 for 15 from the free-throw line. He averaged 28.6 points in the series.
Last year, Kobe has proven he can win without Shaq.
This year, he got revenge against this almost same Boston Celtics team who embarrassed him in the 2008 NBA Finals (prompting Shaq to ask Kobe how his ass tastes). The Lakers too finally win a Game 7 against its bitter rival after four previous failed attempts.
Considering that this is Phil Jackson’s 13th NBA Finals appearance as a coach, it’s amazing to know that this Thursday’s Lakers vs Celtics Game 7 will only be his first.
This will be Laker superstar Kobe Bryant’s first too.
With their backs against the wall, the Lakers played with a sense of urgency in blowing out the Celtics, 89-67.
LA’s defense held Boston to shot a series-low 33.3% and only Utah’s infamous 54-point performance against Chicago in 1998 was worse.
Kobe Bryant had his best game of the series netting 19 of his 38 points in the 3rd quarter and scoring 23 straight Laker points between the 4:23 mark of the second quarter until there was 2:16 left in the third.
However, it was overshadowed by Paul Pierce’s own best game with a performance that’s reminiscent of his 2008 Finals MVP play scoring 27 points of his own.
Boston Celtics reserve center Glen ‘Big Baby’ Davis really wants a new nickname.
After leading the Celtics bench in a 96-89 victory over the Lakers, maybe its time to call him ‘The Beast’ seeing how he plowed the Lakers frontcourt of Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom in scoring 9 points of his 18 in a pivotal 4th quarter run.
Then again, seeing how he drooled like a big baby after a celebratory scream, maybe its his nickname to keep after all.
