Practices get in for Sunday’s All-Star game

“Knowing Kobe as well as I do”, O’Neal said, “I’m sure if he gets going, and the guys get him going, you know the crowd’s going to want it to happen; certain players are going to want it to happen”.

Bryant was the leading vote-getter in the fan balloting that chose the starting lineup for Sunday’s game, a lifetime achievement award more than anything related to his play this season.

“Unfortunately I have to begin with a somber note tonight and that’s to express our condolences to Monty Williams, of course the assistant coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder, and his five children over the loss of his wife and their mother in a tragic auto accident earlier this week, ” Silver said in his annual news conference during NBA All-Star Weekend. I believe the key should go to individuals who make people across the city feel good about themselves and about the city.

“I think unfortunately because of pressure or anxiety or responsibilities, things, whatever, you kind of give up on those dreams and somewhere along the line you lose that imagination”.

“Man, I haven’t seen the movie in a while and there’s some weird stuff in here”, Buress told the audience, according to the TIFF Twitter account. “That’s going to be all of us one day”. He says he’s happy to “play the underdog for a night”.

Several All-Stars anticipate similar festivities when Wade reaches his last All-Star Game, but Wade said he’s fine without that hoopla as long as South Florida has his back. They will have to overtake the Chicago Bulls’ 1995-96 season when they went 72-10.

Bosh leads Miami by scoring 19.1 points per game. “How did he do it?” Apparently, Popovich wanted to try and defend Bryant.

As far as All-Star selections, only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has more than Bryant’s 18. “He’s the legal voting age in All-Star years”.

Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh, who pulled out of Sunday’s All-Star Game because of a strained right calf, is having more tests before the severity of the injury can be determined. That’s insane. His body of work is second to none. “He inspired me a lot to be where I am today, on the same court in the same league as him”.