Kobe Bryant gives back-handed words of ‘support’ to Dwight Howard
A pair of Kobe Bryant ‘s 2000 NBA championship rings and two of the Lakers star’s high school uniforms will be among the auction items on display Tuesday through Friday at the Newport Sports Museum in Newport Beach. Bryant’s 2000 NBA All-Star game ring and his 1996 Magic Roundball Classic All-Star medallion and ribbon will also be on display from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the museum located at 100 Newport Center Drive. Admission is free to the public. As of Monday, there had been a bid for more than $55,000 for one of the championship rings and more than $20,000 for the high school uniforms, according to Doug Drotman of Goldin Auctions, which is conducting the auction that runs through July 19. Half of the proceeds from the high school jerseys, the All-Star game ring and the All-Star medallion and ribbon will benefit the BULLY Project, an anti-bullying campaign that seeks to foster a culture of empathy. The auction items were among a larger cache of memorabilia that had originally been consigned by Bryant’s mother, Pamela, before his lawyers contended that she was not authorized to sell them.
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Howard didn’t accomplish much in his one season with the Lakers. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / January 17, 2013) By Eric Pincus July 8, 2013, 8:44 p.m. Kobe Bryant gave Dwight Howard a back-handed offer of support Monday night on Twitter, where three days earlier Bryant had “unfollowed” Howard after the free-agent center chose the Houston Rockets over the Lakers . I wish d12 the best honestly. I just find it hard to follow players that wanna kick my teams ass #thatsjustme Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) July 9, 2013 “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.” Steve Jobs Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) July 9, 2013 Bryant wished the new Rockets center well — but it’s clear that Bryant now views Howard as the opposition. Despite Bryant’s having met with Howard, along with teammate Steve Nash , to try to convince him to stay, the All-Star center announced Friday that his choice was Houston.
That January in-house team meeting in Memphis? Bryant confronted Howard and made it clear every negative thing he said about the Lakers’ leading man, every impersonation Howard made when he wasn’t around, came back to him. Bryant had “come to rage” against the idea of Howard’s “clownish” disposition taking hold of the Lakers’ culture and warned Howard he would “never, ever let it happen”, writes Wojnarowski , giving more insight as to what occurred during the meeting. When it was first reported by Mike Bresnahan of the Los Angeles Times few details of the meet were reported. It was known, however, that Bryant asked Howard directly if he was bothered by the fact that he can be “hard to play with.” Howard’s answer was “unclear”, and a witness in the meeting claimed he “didn’t go back at Kobe.” Dwightmare over: Lakers, Howard’s revealing post-decision thoughts A source who was in the room told Wojnarowski that he doesn’t believe “anyone had ever talked to [Howard]” the way Bryant did during the meeting. There were doubts from Lakers players, coaches and even opponents that Howard was playing with the “proper purpose and passion.” “With Dwight, he has to be the face of the franchise. Anything less than that, and it would be difficult for him to function at his highest level,” a league official with prior ties to Howard told Wojnarowski. There was a clear disconnect between Kobe Bryant’s vision of what the Lakers are about and what Dwight Howard wanted to be.
Kobe ‘raged’ over Dwight’s ‘clownish’ disposition taking over Lakers, according to report
And probably San Antonio getting so close to winning No. 5, probably hurt me a little bit, too,” Bryant explained to Lakers.coms Mike Trudell about his three-more-years declaration. “I want to make sure I push the ring count out a little further. It was really, really close there. They played phenomenally well. But it’s a testament to what skill can do. To what us old guys can do if you play together, if you play with one mind and one purpose you can accomplish Kobe Bryant Shoes 2013 great things. It was inspirational for me and hopefully inspirational for the city of Los Angeles and this organization of what we can do, how this tide can change fairly quickly, and we’ll be looking at a parade.” The Spurs success in the face of annual questions over how long they can win is deservedly hailed around the league, particularly with the rise of so-called super teams.
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