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Well, I still think Kobe made the right play - and Kobe had repeatedly NOT gotten that kind of call. The refs weren't calling Bowen - there was one play TNT showed several times, the one with about 2 minutes left. You think Kobe should depend on the refs to bail him out on a desperation...

You think he should have taken the shot he had with Bowen all over him when Horry was open? If Kobe had taken the shot, it would have been a desperation shot. He would have been rightly criticized for heaving one up when he had the celebrated last-second assassin wide open. You can argue...

Wow - major call! If you're right, I'll have to declare you my basketball oracle, and re-consider everything I've disagreed with you about. If it's okay with you... As a Laker fan who's been managing his expectations all year, I can't go that far. Odds are definitely against them. The...

Yes to your main point - but it only becomes a bad thing (or a very bad thing) when it goes beyond letting the players play in the way we've come to expect them to, and turns into obvious favoritism. The NBA wants the skillful, charismatic players to have a chance to exhibit their talents. And...

It's as though the NBA wants the officials to be more like MCs than like cops, or like cops who are judged more by their success at keeping order and keeping the community happy than at applying the "letter of the law." The rules, or how to apply them, is the subject of continuous negotiation...

Sorry to go on and on like this, but I've been basketball fan for decades, and I don't even remember ever reading the rules (whatever they were at whatever time). I have a feeling that I'm not the only one. Anyway, I'm surprised to learn that the officials are expected to modify their...

CONTACT SITUATIONS 1. Incidental Contact The mere fact that contact occurs does not necessarily constitute a foul. Contact which is incidental to an effort by a player to play an opponent, reach a loose ball, or perform normal defensive or offensive movements, should not be considered...

On calling Shaq (or other players in the low post or underneath the basket). Notice how much space is left for judgment on the Block-Charge rule: BLOCK-CHARGE A defensive player is permitted to establish a legal guarding position in the path of a dribbler regardless of his speed and...

Optional won't like this section of Charley Rosen's latest ESPN column, though he probably will like the earlier part in which Rosen re-tests his anti-Kobe stuff. full text at: http://espn.go.com/page2/s/rosen/030512.html

So you're saying that you gave up daytrading ES? That's your decision, if so, and I'm not about to try to persuade you to change your mind - I just know that the conclusions you've reached based on your own experience don't justify the categorical statements you made earlier. Also, maybe I...

Yeah, I was watching, too, when the one ref couldn't get the ball in and instead threw it into the other ref's hands. I also loved the way that the refs hit the ground to grab loose balls. The Showtime Lakers used to get a lot more throws than the opposition, too, in critical games -...

Partly right, partly wrong, partly fuzzy - and totally presumptuous. Hardly anything is impossible in trading, though some things are pretty darn improbable. In my opinion, you are very probably not going to trade successfully looking exclusively for those patterns - that is, defining...

No hypocrisy: He's a Laker fan. It's not his job to be objective. It's his job to a) root for the Lakers, and b) root for a good show. And, lets be clear, he wasn't "whining," he was shouting like a madman. I suppose we could re-play the Kings-Lakers last year in our imaginations - it's...

With the Lakers limping, this year really looked like Sac's best chance to break through. Now, their identity as a hard-luck franchise is in danger of getting cemented. It would almost be an insult to Webber if they did go on to take the championship now - unless their opponents also lose...

It's not like he blows up every game. Mostly, he just sits there with his Cheshire cat grin. Last night, he was speaking - er, screaming and yelling - for all Laker fans, who agree with a series of TNT and ESPN commentators that they've never seen this many offensive fouls called in the...

I agree about the premise: It makes no sense, at least as explained. One of the main reasons - in addition to the corny, cliche storyline - that I never liked the movie very much. It wouldn't have been hard to come up with a much better, more interesting premise that would have justified...

AFTER THE WAR Thank You An Iraqi poet celebrates the dictator's fall. BY AWAD NASIR Thursday, May 8, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT Let me confess something: I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Saddam Hussein's statue toppled in Baghdad. I am a poet and know that eyes can, and do...

The question is why hasn't Elgin Baylor quit. He's continually turned up fresh talent for the Clippers only to see Sterling piss it away.

How many wars? How many regimes? So far, I count one. I seem to recall that the action was authorized by Congress. And maybe you can remind us how actually knowing something about the oil industry disqualified anyone from being able to address the situation in the Middle East. It certainly...

[/b] From WSJ "BEST OF THE WEB" BY JAMES TARANTO Tuesday, May 6, 2003 4:15 p.m. EDT Bring Back Saddam! Nicholas Kristof and Paul Krugman, sharing space on today's New York Times op-ed page, have different versions of the same column, a sure sign that liberal conventional wisdom has...