Laker Chat, Part Infinity . . .

It's Laker Chat time, they're in the playoffs, but where they end up being seeded is still in doubt. With just four games left, all at Staples, they would seem to be in great shape, but they have New Orleans visiting Friday and San Antonio visiting Sunday (3:30pm ET on ABC, check your local listings). If they win all four games, they'll need New Orleans to lose one of their other games to get 1st in the Western Conference, if they lose all four games, they could drop behind Phoenix for the Pacific Division title, and lose home court in the first round of the playoffs.



Bynum is said to be ready to play on Sunday, and will also play in the season closing game against Sacramento, then it's five days off, and most likely hosting Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Golden State, or Denver (depending on how seeding shakes out) on Sunday April 20th.



They could beat any of those teams, and they could lose to any of those teams in a seven game series. Nothing will be certain in the Western Conference playoffs, and seeding probably won't be determined until the very last day of the season, with Dallas playing New Orleans that day.



The East is pretty determined already, with only some intrigue as to whether or not Washington can pass Cleveland for 4th (and get home court in the first round). Nobody's going to care much about the East until the Conference Finals, though, not with all the action in the West.



(via TrueHoop)



But you already know all that, did you know that Kobe put on his new Nike shoes and jumped over an Aston Martin at the top of a parking structure near Staples Center?



Sure he did, and here's the video to prove it. Like the way he gave Turiaf a piece of the action by putting him in this video, don't know how it works with 'viral' ads, I doubt this video will ever show up on TV spots, it's strictly going to be an internet phenomenon (until some dumb kid tries to jump his friend's Corolla and gets horribly maimed). Things that you can determine from the ad, yes Kobe probably really jumped high enough to clear the Aston Martin, yes that was really an Aston Martin driving in the same place Kobe occupied, yes Roni Turiaf is always that goofily enthusiastic about stuff, yes Kobe has a playful side, and no, no way in hell that they actually really did this, two possibilities, the car wasn't in line with Kobe, or they edited a jump and car drive by together that didn't happen at the same time. Looking at the frames, I'm going with the edit job, but however this was done, this ad should spread across the internet like crazy.



(and I don't get why there's all that Latin all over Kobe's website, either)