Getting your player ready...
NBA Finals MVP Kobe Bryant had a gift for “Tonight Show” host Conan O’Brien when he appeared on the show Wednesday night — game-worn signed sneakers. O’Brien’s gift to Bryant: He stole a 25-foot-tall golden statue of a pharaoh from the Universal Studios lot and put it in his studio to make Bryant “feel like a king.” “Straight out of ‘The Ten Commandments,’ ” Bryant said of the statue. Bryant also said coach Phil Jackson had the Lakers meditate before games. “He said, ‘You’re a frog on a lily pad.’ . . . I’m not making this stuff up,” he said. The Associated Press
