Kobe Bryant led the Los Angeles Lakers to a 89-85 win over the San Antonio Spurs in game 1 of the Western Conference finals.

“Kobe, he was doing a trust-his-teammates thing in the first half,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. “That’s why he had five assists, and he was checking it all out and see where his territory was going to be. In the second half, he went to work.

Kobe only scored 2 points in the first half but in the 2nd half he took control of the game and finished with 27 points including a nice 10-foot jumper in the lane with just 23.9 seconds remaining on the clock.

The game was very close and it looks like we’re in for one hell of a series!