Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:00 pm EDT

"See, for each one of these delicious chocolate chip cookies, there is an equally delicious NBA Championship ring that you don't have — one for each chocolaty cookie. You've got to be hungry, LeBron. I'm talking 'bout stomach growlin!"
Kobe Puppet's words have been playing through my head over and over again for the past week.
"You've got to be hungry, Rod."
The words played over and over again as I woke up at 6 a.m. to board an 8 a.m. flight from Sacramento to New York. They played again when I finally arrived at my hotel room in Terrytown, NY, at 9 p.m. after being stuck in Puerto Rican Day traffic for two hours. They woke me up the next morning at 7 a.m. (EDT).
"You've got to be hungry, Rod."
I played like a man whose stomach was growlin'. Lil' Kobe would have been proud.Read More >>