[killer_carlson]

I think one of the worst things to have happened to basketball was for the cameras and announcers to pick up when Michael Jordan was in the zone in the finals, turned to Magic Johnson who was working play by play, and did the now famous shoulder shrug as if to say "I'm just throwing them up and they just keep going in". It was a great, "organic" moment in the heat of the action.

Now that little parasite Kobe Bryant tries to emulate that after every basket. Because Kobe plays in the big market, he gets some attention from the media and that causes every other new player to be more interested in getting into the fricken highlight reel than winning championships.

The best thing that could happen to the NBA would for Kobe to retire and let people who actually care about the game, and not their own stats, to play in LA.