Bryant honoured by Jordan tribute

For one, he was drafted by the Hornets with the 13th-overall pick in the 1996 draft, but ended up on the Lakers when his draft rights were traded for Vlade Divac.

BOSTON The color disgusted former Lakers player and general manager Jerry West so much that he refused to wear it. The color has also made several Lakers feel nauseous. Yet, for some reason, Lakers guard Kobe Bryant claims that green has always been his favorite color. As I said a couple weeks ago, this is your previous year. “It’s a little weird, isn’t it?”

Kobe Bryant (knee) is not listed on the Los Angeles Lakers ‘ injury report heading into Monday’s game against Charlotte, Mark Medina of the LA Daily News reports.

He said his wife (Vanessa) and two daughters (Natalia, Gianna) will visit the city for the first time to experience something that apparently has become dear to his heart. “I want them to be able to see that”. “He’s fundamentally extremely sound”, Bryant said of Allen.

There have been and will be a bunch of tributes for Bryant as his final season in the league winds down, but it’s hard to imagine that any of them will be better than the one done by Charlotte.

Charlotte outscored the Lakers 54-44 in points in the paint. With the Garden playing both songs before and after every Celtics win, Bryant wanted to “remember that feeling” of defeat.

“I thought we moved the ball”, Pierce said of the solid shooting in the second half.

Walker scored 18 out of his team’s 23 points in the fourth period as he took over what was a tight game through the first three quarters. “Usually he comes out at the end of the third quarter for a quick break, but we were up four and he said, ‘I’m good.’ We can’t keep doing that, but at this part of the season where you want to get a cushion… you leave him in there and let him go”. “We kind of figured out how to get open”.

It was Walker’s fourth 30-point game this season. He grabbed 15 rebounds. The Los Angeles Lakers are shooting 31.7 percent from beyond the arc and 75.6 percent from the free throw line.

This wasn’t any different from other Hornets games in which Walker goes off or has an bad night.

Trailing 64-60 with just under eight minutes left in the third quarter, Pierce hit a 3-pointer to spark his team.

“Most people don’t realize you were drafted by the Charlotte Hornets”, Jordan said in a video casting on the Jumbotron. “I had to figure out how to beat them another way. But it was a tough game”. Bryant has averaged 24.2 points in 29 career games against the Hornets, and once scored 58 against the Hornets in 2006…. I think, when I look back, and the first time we actually played against each other, and the competitive drive that I saw within your eyes…is very invigorating.