Saturday, March 26, 2011
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bean Bryant (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, August 23, 1978, age 32 years) was an NBA player and play for the club the Los Angeles Lakers. He wears costumes back numbered 24 (since 2006-07) and played in the shooting guard position. Kobe's first time playing in the NBA in 1996-1997 competition year and have brought the Los Angeles Lakers 3 times champion when along with other star player, Shaquille O'Neal, who now plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers team.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 - ± 5 April 1994) is a singer, songwriter and guitarist in the Seattle grunge band, Nirvana. With this band's success, Cobain became a national and international celebrities, a position he assumed with a heavy heart. In 1991, the rise of Cobain's most famous song, Smells Like Teen Spirit, the beginning marks a major change in the pop music of the type of music popular in the 1980's like glam metal, arena rock, and dance-pop, to grunge and alternative rock. Besides writing songs such other Cobain About a Girl, Come as You Are, In Bloom, Lithium, Heart-shaped Box, All Apologies, and Rape Me. Cobain married Courtney Love on February 24, 1992 in Waikiki, Hawaii. On August 18, 1992, Frances Bean Cobain was born. On March 1, 1994, after a concert in Munich, Germany, Cobain was diagnosed with bronchitis and severe laryngitis. He was flown to Rome the next day to undergo treatment, and his wife joined on 3 March. The next morning, Love got up and find Cobain was overdose with a blend of champagne and Rohypnol. He was rushed to hospital and after five days there allowed to go home. Because these drugs problems, Cobain entered into rehab on March 30. On the night of 1 April, Cobain out for a smoke and then ran away from home is by climbing the fence. He then went to Seattle and disappeared. On April 3, Love contact a private investigator, Tom Grant, and hired him to find Cobain. On April 8, 1994, Cobain's body was found in a room above his garage in Lake Washington by Veca Electric employee named Gary Smith. Autopsies later estimates Cobain died on April 5, 1994. Kurt Cobain still remember and inspire loyal fans, on 13 May 2010-6 September 2010, the Seattle Art Museum held an exhibition titled "Kurt" to pay their respects.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
LA Lakers
Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Los Angeles, California. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, which they share with their local NBA rival, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL, and the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA. The Lakers are the reigning NBA champions after defeating the Boston Celtics in the 2010 NBA Finals 4–3. The Finals victory gave the franchise their 16th championship, placing them second in NBA history behind the Celtics' 17. As of 2011, the Lakers are the second most valuable NBA franchise according to Forbes, having an estimated value of $643 million.
The franchise started with the 1947 purchase of a disbanded team, the Detroit Gems of the NBL. The new team began play in Minneapolis, Minnesota, calling themselves the Lakers in honor of the state's nickname, "Land of 10,000 Lakes". The Lakers won five championships in Minneapolis, propelled by center George Mikan, who is described by the NBA's official website as the league's "first superstar". After struggling financially in the late 1950s following Mikan's retirement, they relocated to Los Angeles before the 1960–61 season.
Led by Hall of Famers Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, Los Angeles made the NBA Finals six times in the 1960s, but lost each series to Boston. In 1968, the Lakers acquired four time MVP Wilt Chamberlain to play center, and after losing in the Finals in 1969 and 1970, they won their sixth NBA title—and first in Los Angeles—in 1972, led by new head coach Bill Sharman. After the retirement of West and Chamberlain, the team acquired another center, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who had won multiple MVP awards, but was unable to make the Finals in the late 1970s. The 1980s Lakers were nicknamed "Showtime" due to their Magic Johnson-led fast break-offense, and won five championships in a nine-year span. This team featured Hall of Famers in Johnson, Abdul-Jabbar, and James Worthy, and a Hall of Fame coach, Pat Riley. Two of those championships were against their rivals, the Celtics. After Abdul-Jabbar and Johnson's retirement, the team struggled in the early 1990s before acquiring Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant in 1996. Led by O'Neal, Bryant, and another Hall of Fame coach, Phil Jackson, Los Angeles won three consecutive titles between 2000 to 2002, securing the franchise its first "three-peat". After losing both the 2004 and 2008 NBA Finals, the Lakers won two more championships by defeating the Orlando Magic in 2009 and Boston in 2010.
The Lakers hold the record for NBA's longest winning streak (33), set during the 1971–72 season. Sixteen Hall of Famers have played for Los Angeles, while four have coached the team. Four Lakers—Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant—have won the NBA Most Valuable Player Awards for a total of eight awards.
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