Lost Time Is Not Found Again: Feb. 5, 2009
Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew has been reading today. Maybe.
+ Santonio Holmes’ Super Bowl catch, as recreated by Tecmo Bowl. {FanIQ.}
+ Did LeBron James really go for a triple-double last night? Here’s video to show Ben Wallace might have actually snagged his ninth rebound. {FanHouse.}
+ God explains the Super Bowl. {Kissing Suzy Kolber.}
+ Beast mode, the t-shirt. {First Cuts.}
+Non-sports: See where your friends are with Google Latitude. {Official Gmail Blog.} Man vows to eat only bacon for a month. {Geekologie.}
Quotable:
“Was LeBron’s 52 more impressive than Kobe’s 61? Not on its face. But putting up 62+ would have been inelegant. LeBron’s version of can-you-top-this showcased why James is the superior all-around player — the best player in the NBA.
LeBron’s triple-double made him the first player since Kareem in ‘75 to have 50 points AND a triple-double. (Kobe had a super-single: Sure, 61 points, but only 3 assists and 0 rebounds. The stats guys will crunch this better, but I suspect LeBron created more points than Kobe.)
Oh, and just in case you wondered if LeBron could score 60 — if he wanted to — James scored 20 in the first quarter, presumably to show he could easily top 61 — if he wanted to be a Kobe-style ball-hog and take all the shots himself.
(On top of all that, LeBron goes one-up on Kobe in one other way: Only LeBron and Michael Jordan have gone into MSG and scored 50+ more than once.)
Unfortunately, Kobe won’t go back to the Garden until next season. But if he thought his “61″ could stand for the season as the best performance … it didn’t even last 48 hours. “ – Dan Shanoff



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