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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Keeps Playing Alone
Another superb scoring performance from Kobe Bryant, another loss for the Los Angeles Lakers. A team that was supposed to be playing the most balanced kind of offense in the NBA when the season kicked off has changed and turned and transformed into a torn apart unit that simply doesn’t know what to do to win games.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Players Beginning to Quit on This Team
So we’re a quarter of the season into the 2012-2013 NBA season, and the team that made the most noise during the off season still can’t pick up off from mediocrity, let alone simply being bad. They’re 9-12, still without Steve Nash. They’re without Pau Gasol and seem to be losing him forever at the current pace, while Dwight Howard can’t hit a free throw and Kobe Bryant puts up futile big numbers.
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10 Leading Active Scorers in the NBA
There’s no one really close to Kobe Bryant when it comes to the NBA’s active scoring leaders. While the Lakers’ one-man show is surging past 30,000 points, out of the current top 10, only LeBron James looks like he’ll be reaching that mark later in his career. Where do they stop? How far do they reach?
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Los Angeles Lakers – It’s All About Kobe Bryant
Players and coaches, they come and go. Eight years ago the Los Angeles Lakers made a decision to go with Kobe Bryant. Little by little, one of the two most illustrious franchises in the NBA has turned into a one man show, a stage they can’t seem to shake this Cult of personality that might be great for individual achievements (30,000 career points), but it’s stopping this team from moving forward.
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Los Angeles Lakers – It Simply Isn’t Working
Pau Gasol is once again on the trading block. Kobe Bryant isn’t happy, and unlike girls who just got dumped, he feeds his depression by taking a huge amount of field goals. Dwight Howard can’t make the Los Angeles Lakers good on defense or become a remotley decent free throw shooter. Mike D’Antoni is trying to manage something a bit over his head.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Inconsistency & Terrible Defense
Is Dwight Howard not raising his game to the level that’s needed from him? Is Pau Gasol really that bad, or is it just Mike D’Antoni and his system that’s ruining him? Should someone tell Kobe Bryant that the Los Angeles Lakers don’t win when he scores so many points? Is Steve Nash the thing that they’re actually missing?
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Los Angeles Lakers – Dwight Howard Makes it Work
Some would say that for the first time this season, the Los Angeles Lakers looked like the team they sought out to be during a busy off-season. Surprisingly or not, Kobe Bryant was the least involved player in their big, three point filled win, while Dwight Howard starred alongside Antawn Jamison and Jodie Meeks.
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LeBron James – NBA Fans Love Winners
Hate in sports, especially the American kind, is often a passing thing. Especially when it has no real grasp on actual occurrences The trend of wishing LeBron James all the worst is gone and forgotten, as the man everyone wanted to hate and see fail for about two years is the most popular in the NBA over the last six months according to the jersey sales numbers.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Has Nothing to Smile About
Even when he scored 40 points, Kobe Bryant isn’t happy. He can’t be when the Los Angeles Lakers lose, and his triple double has 10 turnovers on it. The Lakers under Mike D’Antoni continue to search for consistency and ways to bring more players to contribute besides Bryant.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Finally Not Just Kobe Bryant
In an attempt to find a balanced offense, the Los Angeles Lakers began the season 0-4 on the road, with the same tune playing again: Kobe Bryant taking up the bulk of the shots and the offense, leading the NBA in scoring with 26.9 points per game so far. Maybe that trend is finally changing for the better.