Shaq and Kobe share MVP honors

Shaq and Kobe were Co-MVPs for the 2009 NBA All-Star Game.

Kobe Bryant led all scorers with 27 points, Shaquille O’Neal partied his way back onto the All-Star stage with 17 in just 11 minutes, and the Western Conference beat the East 146-119 Sunday night.

What got into the big man? Maybe he took a shot of 5 hour energy. No crash later. No bat guano. But he looked like a man on a mission from the highlights I saw.

The pass in-between the legs of Dwight Howard and then to get right back for the give and go dunk was pretty impressive. He looked like the Shaq we used to love to watch. Not the Miami police cop he has become.

“It felt like old times,” O’Neal told ESPN. “I miss those times. He was really looking for me, especially when we went to a pick-and-roll and they had Rashard Lewis on me.” 

After O’Neal moved to Miami, Kobe and Shaq had some sort of falling out. With pointing of fingers, temper tantrums and other childish acts it was almost surprising to see the two share a MVP trophy.

“We are not going to go back to the room and watch ‘Steel Magnolias’ or something like that, you know what I’m saying, crying, all that stuff,” Bryant said told ESPN. “We had a good time. That’s all.”

 This is the third time that Kobe has earned MVP for the NBA All-Star game. This is the first time since 2000 that two players have earned MVP for the All-Star game. That year Shaq and Tim Duncan shared the honor.

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Coach fired, says he’s not sorry for 100-0 score

It is not uncommon for a coach to be accused of running up a score.

Whether it is continuing to throw passes during the fourth quarter or shooting three pointers late in the game.

Recently a high school basketball coach from Texas was fired after being unapologetic after defeating a team 100-0.

Head coach Micah Grimes sent an email to the Dallas Morning news explaining that he would not apologize “for a wide margin of victory when my girls played with honor and integrity.”

On its Web site last week, Covenant, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy. “It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition,” said the statement, signed by Queal and board chair Todd Doshier.

I don’t think the coach is the wrong here. It takes two teams to lose that horribly. Shooting threes late in the fourth quarter may seem a little much, but what would you like them to do, Take a knee?

The losing team has a total of 20 girls in its entire school and is winless over the last four season.

Maybe Dallas Academy should end its basketball program. You barely have a roster to begin with, at (8). You haven’t won a game since 2005. Give it up.

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