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"I bet that dun did it on purpose!"

Robert Anthony once said, “When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” The German philosopher, Freidrich Nietzsche, shut the building down with this one, “Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.” Big Momma just walked in and said, “Stop blaming other folks and take it like a G when something bad happens.”

Kobe Bryant attempted a baseline jumper that would have forced overtime with 3.9 seconds remaining that didn’t fall in a close loss 96-92 to the Atlanta Hawks. Instead, he fell or came down on defender Dahntay Jones’ foot and severely twisted his ankle.  

In typical Kobe fashion he blamed Dahntay for the injury. After the game he said that the refs need to do a better job of protecting shooters from defenders who go underneath them while shooting.

This dun goes on to say, "As defensive players, you can contest shots, but you can't walk underneath players. That's dangerous for the shooter." Then he later tweeted, "#dangerousplay that should have been called. Period." Like ole boy wasn’t gonna see it or just let that ride.

So Dahntay being a real G came right back at him on Tweeter with, "Tape doesn't lie. Ankle was turned on the floor after the leg kick out that knocked him off balance. I would never try to hurt the man.” He later threw this joint out there too, "Leg kick that makes contact with a defensive player is an offense foul. Period. The nba changed that rule 2 yrs ago. Stop it!"

On some real talk, that whole back and forth on Tweeter was code! Kobe had already spoken to the media about it. So to throw it out on Tweeter with the "PERIOD." Was code for that dun did it on purpose and I'm calling him out. In essence, Kobe was being a Twitter gangster flying to Indiana for the Pacer game on Wednesday night. Dahntay's response was code for, "forget you Kobe" and that's the edited version!

If he was really that fired up about it, he would have pulled a Melo and waited on Dahntay at the bus instead of getting on Twitter. Stop me when I start lyin'!

What trips me out about the Black Mamba is that he thinks that he can say whatever he wants to a boy and it’s gonna be cool! Listen up playboy, everybody doesn’t play on your team and is afraid of getting traded because you’re the franchise. Big props to Dahntay for hittin’ him off for suggesting that he intentionally tried to hurt him. Whether it was a foul or not is irrelevant. My problem is that way ole boy tried to handle it on Twitter.  

This ain't Smush Parker playboy that's no longer in the league! He's gonna step to the wrong cat and they're gonna give him a Chris Childs two piece and a biscuit super sized to go.

It’s a game that has some contact and things happen sometimes bruh! Sure, Jalen Rose got him the same way back in the 2000 NBA Finals and later admitted that it was in fact intentional. On some real talk, there was a lot more at stake than a dull Wednesday night joint in Atlanta.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Kobe has always tried to be Jordan from the day he walked into the league. From the way he walks, chews gum, throws his fist in the air after big shots, to the way he does interviews. So why are we surprised that ole boy finds reasons to be mad at boyz to motivate himself? He’s already talking about revenge for next year because they don’t play them again until then. That’s cool but that’s the way the game is played pimpin’! Take it like a G and move on. 

I can hear all of the delusional Kobe fans calling me a hater right now. Don’t give this dun a pass for coming at ole boy sideways. Cats get hurt all of the time. It’s part of the game bruh! Rehab that joint and keep bangin’ to make the playoffs cuz you know Buster Brown can't handle the pressure of carrying the load.  Whining about it isn’t gonna change anything to get him on the floor any sooner.

All I know is that fans in Indy are fired up this morning because they’ve been stinging boyz for those Lakers tickets to see the Black Mamba and there’s a great possibility that he won’t even be in the building on Friday! See $899 for good seats is nothing in LA but in Indiana that’s a mortgage payment and groceries! For that type of bread Kobe better put on some roller skates, an air cast and play at least 3 quarters, throw down 4 monster dunks, sign autographs, have dinner with cats, exchange phone numbers, drive them to the crib, play a couple of rounds of spades and give boyz $4.35 in change back. Stop me when I start lyin’!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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