Insidehoops was founded because of Kobe Bryant....

[9erempiree]

Lord Based Mamba!

Thank you Jeff.

After a few years of working for financial firms, Jeff got into journalism and began writing basketball stories for a major overseas magazine, doing a major cover story on then-rookie Kobe Bryant, and becoming the main U.S. NBA writer for what at the time was Australia's only famous basketball publication.

http://www.insidehoops.com/about.shtml

This is our God.

[plowking]

One of the best Australian websites on the net.

Makes me proud as an Australian.

[J Shuttlesworth]

And his stans are the reason for the self-destruction of this site

[TheMarkMadsen]

Kobe giving jeff his big break

[BuffaloBill]

And his stans are the reason for the self-destruction of this site

The Mamba giveth, and the mamba taketh away

[DFish24]

Kobe will always be the MVP of ISH.

[konex]

This is an Australian site?

I have been posting here since 2006 and didn't know

[Mr. Jabbar]

jeff was lost until he found the light of Kobe bean Bryant. Google Adsense was just the natural step after that

[9erempiree]

This is an Australian site?

I have been posting here since 2006 and didn't know

It's not.

I believe the Kobe article changed Jeff's life. He took it to another level as in Insidehoops.

[9erempiree]

In late 2000 Jeff left Australia and lived in Los Angeles for almost one year. By then, InsideHoops.com had a solid readership and a terrific reputation as a leading source of fun, educated basketball opinions. Jeff began doing radio interviews. The website kept growing. Inside Hoops was becoming famous.

Writes Kobe article, one year later moves to L.A. to most likely cover Kobe, and here we are in 2015....

How great is our God?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9HjNWbJvA

[HOoopCityJones]

And his stans are the reason for the self-destruction of this site

I think you mean Lebron stans.

[buddha]

wait... you're telling me i've been posting on an australian website?

[9erempiree]

nobody is posting on an Australian website.

This site is a '.com'

'.au' is an Australian website.

[DJ Leon Smith]

I gave Jeff that job so technically InsideHoops was founded because of me.

[bobopenguin]

I think you mean Lebron stans.

and harden stans.