-Phil Jackson just told Doris Burke that they’re “talking” to Kobe Bryant about dribbling too much. He should have said “pleading.” -Mark Jackson believes Kobe Bryant will step up because he’s played with a lot of great players, and great players get it done. Excuse me sir. The best players you played with are Patrick Ewing and Reggie Miller. Kobe Bryant is better.
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NBA Finals Game 7 Live Blog: Two Teams Tied As We Enter Winning Time
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Filed under: Celtics , Lakers , NBA Playoffs , NBA Finals LOS ANGELES — OK, so he isn’t Michael, and try as he might for the rest of his career, he’ll never be Magic, either. Still, Kobe being Kobe is great enough. Kobe Bryant is great, by the way, even though he spent most of Thursday night inside Staples Center operating as if he were dribbling with one hand on the ball and the other around his throat. Which brings us to a problem for Bryant, especially since his admirable yet unreachable goal is to rise higher than anybody in NBA history. This was a Game 7 — the ultimate of games in sports for the elite — and somebody not named Kobe Bryant was the most valuable player. It was Ron Artest , Bryant’s teammate on the Los Angeles Lakers , and Artest forgot that he only was supposed to be a bit player in Bryant’s show by becoming the more consistent performer for the evening.
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-One quick thought before we hit the stretch run: notice how the Lakers aren’t going to TEH MOST CLUTCH PLAYER EVAH down the stretch? I have. As much as Kobe has been Kobe all season, this hasn’t been uncommon. Pau Gasol has closed games as the go-to guy a lot this season, and he’s doing it again. Of course, as I say that, Kobe will take over at the very end and finish this off. -Movement. Movement. Movement. Movement. MOVEMENT! This is officially my new bumper sticker. -Gasol’s defense on pick and rolls has been unbelievable. LA is stopping Boston’s pet play – the Paul Pierce pick and roll. Yet another reason why I blog instead of coaching. -Kobe Bryant hits a jumper, Lakers by 4. I dread Mark Jackson’s lead-out to commercial. It turns out more tame than I expected. -Isn’t it funny how you can’t get your offensive rhythm back easily once you go to too many isolations? LA has played great defense, to be sure, but Boston definitely lost a lot when they started to rely too heavily on Pierce isolations late in the third quarter and early in the fourth quarter. Right now, Ray Allen is out of rhythm, for example, and so is Kevin Garnett. That definitely made a difference on Allen’s wide open missed jumper. -LA dodges a huge bullet there, because Ron Artest left Paul Pierce wide open to close out on Rasheed Wallace for no reason. Pierce missed the shot, Gasol got bailed out on the other end and actually hit his free throws. Lakers by 6. -I’m surprised we haven’t seen Boston post up Garnett on Gasol much this quarter. That would be a smart offensive set. -Speaking of out of rhythm … Ray Allen just missed a layup. -Kobe just got to the rim and got fouled on a dunk attempt. He missed another free throw. I find it funny that, if the Lakers win, Kobe will get praised for sticking with it on offense. The praise really should go to the Lakers’ defense for shutting down Boston’s offense, which has little to do with Kobe. -Garnett gets free for a dunk right after Mark Jackson said he’s never seen the Lakers play better defense, ever. I love karma. -Pau Gasol has 16 points and 15 rebounds, though it doesn’t seem like he’s made that kind of impact. I guess by my standards, nobody is playing well tonight. -Dribble, dribble, dribble, WHISTLE, foul, free throw attempt, missed free throw. -Paul Pierce and Ron Artest just traded dumb fouls on consecutive possessions. They might need to repaint the free-throw line after tonight.
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-Kobe Bryant is totally in his “I don’t trust anyone” mode. I don’t blame him: other than Ron Artest, his team hasn’t shown up. Still, if you yourself are 3-16, it might be time to think about creating good shots for your teammates. -Mark Jackson just compared Kobe Bryant’s game to John Starks’ Game 7 in the 1994 Finals. Hand down, man down! That was harsh. -Not only is Kobe playing bad offense, but he’s also forgetting to box out Rajon Rondo. That’s the crazy thing about Kobe’s performance: he’s been awful on offense, but he’s also allowed his man, Rajon Rondo, to have a field day. Sure, a lot of Rondo’s production comes in transition, but it’s also on Kobe to corral him there. -Paul Pierce just went to the bench with a shoulder injury. Hopefully he’s okay. I know it’ll be tough for him to recover because there are no wheelchairs available. -The crowd is shouting “defense” right now. In this game, is that even necessary? -It’s about time for Pau Gasol to make one of his customary lefty hook shots. Just be yourself, Pau. Don’t be someone else. -“Yourself” should not include letting Kevin Garnett go baseline for a layup. -Lamar Odom just tipped in a Ron Artest miss in transition and acted like he just won the NBA championship. Or, more accurately, he acted like he just received a Golden Ticket to get inside Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. -Ray Allen continues to struggle from the field. He’s tired from guarding Kobe Bryant. -Kobe Bryant’s last possession: “Dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, drive into two defenders, turnover.” -Kobe Bryant’s last possession: “Stand around, shoot a shot with a man in his face, miss.” -Does Rasheed Wallace ever do anything other than shoot bank shots in the post?
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Subscription model seen as best bet over long term, while analysts say Sky may load rival with poor content News Corporation is to put another of its services behind a paywall as it emerged yesterday that Sky Sports News is to be pulled from Freeview. BSkyB, which launched Sky Sports News on Freeview in 2002 with Sky News and Sky Travel, is to replace the channel with a one-hour timeshifted Sky 3+1 service later this year. Sky 3 replaced Sky Travel in 2005. Industry experts also believe that BSkyB could decide that its Sky News website, currently freely available on the internet, should go behind a paywall. The decision on Sky Sports News, which has an average daily reach of 2.1m according to television measuring service Barb, marks a significant shift in BSkyB’s attitude to the benefits of using the reach of the free-to-air service as a marketing channel to attract subscribers to its pay-TV service. With subscription charges about to start on the Times’s website as Rupert Murdoch’s media empire searches for new revenue streams, News Corp is undergoing a major restructuring of its business model. It is already looking to maximise revenues from its Sky TV channels by launching a bid for the 61% of the satellite broadcaster that it does not presently own. Despite the Sky Sports News service benefiting from advertising revenues on the Freeview platform, it is thought that BSkyB has decided that over the long term there is more advantage to be had from a subscription model. As part of the move, BSkyB is to boost editorial investment in Sky Sports News as it prepares to launch a high-definition service. When the service is removed from digital terrestrial service Freeview, it will be available on subscription services Sky, Virgin Media and TalkTalk TV. “As part of a subscription service, customers can look forward to expanded coverage and the launch of Europe’s first HD sports news service,” said Barney Francis, the managing director of Sky Sports. BSkyB is seeking to pull valuable free content and boost the “must have” factor of its pay services ahead of rivals introducing cut-price Sky Sports packages for the next Premier League season. In April Sky was ordered to slash the price it offers Sky Sports 1 and 2 wholesale to rivals including Virgin Media and BT Vision . Alexander Wisch, an analyst at Standard & Poor’s Equity Research, said: “In my view if they are forced to sell key content, like sport, at regulated wholesale prices, why give out anything for free? “Its pay TV platform may be under threat from the wholesale issue so if anyone can soon offer Sky Sports [at highly competitive prices] then BSkyB will be asking what they can offer as added value to subscribers. They are looking to make the pay TV service more interesting, the destination for sport.” Wisch also believed that it was unlikely but not out of the question for BSkyB to be considering the long-term strategy of keeping Sky News on Freeview. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they pull other content out [of free platforms],” he said. “Sky News is important to them on Freeview, so far, and while I can’t see it coming off in the near term, I wouldn’t rule anything out.” BSkyB is expected to reach its highly publicised 10 million subscriber target this year. The weakening of Freeview would help shore up the pay-TV company’s longer-term position. Replacing Sky Sports News with a time-shifted version of Sky 3 was described by one former senior Sky executive as “a cheap way to fill airtime with relatively pointless TV”. BSkyB will pick up a fourth slot on Freeview when it takes over the Virgin 1 channel, assuming regulatory clearance is given to its £160m takeover of Virgin Media Television’s channels . BSkyB did not buy the licence to continue operating the Virgin 1 name. “Freeview delivers some advertising revenues for them, but is a potent rival for the pay TV platform, so they do benefit from a weaker Freeview, with a poorer content offering,” said one industry source. “Full conspiracy theory could see Sky put crap on the channel to make the inferior Freeview offering more so. Make a rival suffer, that is the pay TV way.” BSkyB Freeview Television industry Media business BSkyB Mark Sweney guardian.co.uk
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Sky Sports News to go behind paywall in battle with Freeview broadcasters
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-Four quick halftime thoughts: it was nice of Magic Johnson to finally admit he couldn’t make sense of a basketball game; it was fitting that everyone used the wrestling analogy for their analysis; we need more stories from Bill Walton in the future, even if the events he describes are kind of boring; and this Kobe legacy talk is boring, as expected. On the bright side, it was nice of Jon Barry to say the legacy won’t change if Kobe wins “4, 5, or 7 championships” instead of “4, 6 or 8 championships” like he did in the pregame. -It’s a good thing the jerseys on the front say “Lakers” and “Celtics.” If they instead said “Spurs” and “Nets,” there would be more complaining. Or, more accurately,
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NBA Finals Game 7 Live Blog: Rajon Rondo Leads Celtics To 11-Point Lead
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Jared Wickerham – Getty Images about 1 hour ago: CLEVELAND – JUNE 17: Jose Reyes #7 of the New York Mets is congratulated by a teammate after scoring against the Cleveland Indians during the game on June 17, 2010 at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio. Reyes had earlier injured his hand but stayed in the game. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images) View full size photo
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R.A. Dickey Stays Strong As Mets Brush Aside Indians For Seventh Straight Win
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Sharks and psychotics, losers and lap-dancers – they all got their piece of Tiger Woods Jacques Peretti’s Tiger Woods: The Rise and Fall (Channel 4) offered a bleak vision of human
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