Looks like Kobe stole your handle:
Kobe unleashes defense and new nickname on Lithuania
By Chris Sheridan
ESPN.com
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Kobe is embracing his role as Team USA's defensive stopper. Just ask Lithuania's Sarunas Jasikevicius.
</dd></dl><!-- end wide photo -->MACAU -- We have three candidates for strangest thing we saw on Friday: A referee smoking a cigarette at halftime, Sarunas Jasikevicius looking like he had never played the game of basketball before and Chris Paul throwing down a dunk late in the fourth quarter.
Well, check that.
Paul has dunked before, which everyone on Team USA was quick to remind Dwight Howard of, since he was the guy Paul dunked over during a Hornets-Magic game a couple years back.
The other two items, however, were true rarities, and Kobe Bryant's shutting down of Jasikevicius was one of the biggest eye-openers, as Team USA handled Lithuania with relative ease in a 120-84 victory that wrapped up the Macau portion of its pre-Olympic tour.
"That's what I do," said Bryant, who gave himself a new nickname: "The Doberman."
Kobe unleashes defense and new nickname on Lithuania
By Chris SheridanESPN.com
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Kobe is embracing his role as Team USA's defensive stopper. Just ask Lithuania's Sarunas Jasikevicius.
</dd></dl><!-- end wide photo -->MACAU -- We have three candidates for strangest thing we saw on Friday: A referee smoking a cigarette at halftime, Sarunas Jasikevicius looking like he had never played the game of basketball before and Chris Paul throwing down a dunk late in the fourth quarter.
Well, check that.
Paul has dunked before, which everyone on Team USA was quick to remind Dwight Howard of, since he was the guy Paul dunked over during a Hornets-Magic game a couple years back.
The other two items, however, were true rarities, and Kobe Bryant's shutting down of Jasikevicius was one of the biggest eye-openers, as Team USA handled Lithuania with relative ease in a 120-84 victory that wrapped up the Macau portion of its pre-Olympic tour.
"That's what I do," said Bryant, who gave himself a new nickname: "The Doberman."
