Kobe Cockroach strikes again.
Yes, I’m talking about the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant. And I mean “cockroach” as a compliment. You just can’t kill the guy. The Lakers were 17 down to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Sunday’s fourth quarter, still trailed by 11 with four minutes to play, and somehow won in double overtime.
And while Kobe wasn’t the only guy in purple — oops, Forum Blue — and gold to make a huge contribution to this win, he was the guy who closed the deal with monumental two 3-pointers in regulation to force overtime and stunning overall play in the extra frames, especially the second OT, when he scored four huge points in the final 53 seconds.
“Being down double digits against a very good team, we could have folded easily,” Lakers coach Mike Brown said. “This might have been our best team win of the year.”
And this was after the Artest formerly known as Ron before he changed his name to Metta World Peace got himself ejected just before halftime for throwing one of the most vicious elbows to the back of an opponent’s head that’s ever seen outside a hockey rink.