Bryant may be ready to turn Lakers’ future over to the kids

The Los Angeles Lakers’ road trip continues on Friday night as they travel to the AT&T Center to take on one of the best teams in the league in the San Antonio Spurs. Fortunately, Minnesota ended up on the positive end of the 123-122 final score.

“It’s similar” to the break against the Knicks last November, Martin said. That was close. It felt good’. “It was just fun to get a ‘W'”. He can still play 26 minutes a night from the bench, the majority of it alongside fellow chuckers Nick Young and Lou Williams. “I enjoy that fans get to show their appreciation for one of the greatest players to play the game”, he said. But again, we would never know and it’s still a very good win from the Timberwolves. It’s just insane lining up with KG after all these years. “It’s nuts. Where did time go?” Jerry Buss, the late owner of the team, tried to fly everybody in first class but some players had to go in coach class because of lack of seats.

The Lakers have played relatively well in recent games but haven’t managed to pull out more than three wins.

Bryant has had a tough first quarter of the season, and simply isn’t the player he once was.

“I think our fans understand, this being Kobe’s last year, after 19 just ridiculous years, that we’re in a year that there’s going to be a salute and a goodbye, which in itself is exciting”.

Martin started out hot for the Wolves, tallying a quick seven points.

In ATS trends, the Lakers are 8-17 ATS in their last 25 games overall and 3-7 ATS in their last 10 road games, while the Spurs are 11-1 ATS in their last 12 following a loss and 4-1 ATS in their last five against the Western Conference.

“I suck right now”, Bryant said after the Lakers’ third game of the season in November. It might not be fair to other players, but it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world to give a living legend a last farewell, either. “He was going to have to find me”. He said it will be re-evaluated after 10 games. Towns made 11 of 19 shots and tied a career high for rebounds. The rookie matched Martin’s nine points to help Minnesota keep the lead for most of the quarter. He buried back-to-back 3-pointers to pull the Lakers within two with 51 seconds remaining. Although the Lakers are a bottom-five team, they have defended the three-point line reasonably well.

In a shocking twist, Bryant benched himself in the fourth quarter and overtime period of a tightly contested game and convinced Scott to let youngsters D’Angelo Russell and Julius Randle run the show. The rookie had a breakout game, finishing with 23 points, including three from beyond the arc.

The Lakers’ 37-year-old star has winced as he fights Father Time.

“I remember when he played the Sonics, and he threw the ball off the backboard and dunked it”, LaVine said. Reports suggest that Lakers may actually go for a young talent like Tim Hardaway Jr, who has been hardly used by the Hawks. “This is a great thing to see that we’re taking up from the people before us and trying to play at a high level”.

With no starters in for the Wolves, the Lakers took advantage led midway through the fourth quarter. I think they really respect what he does on the basketball court and they’re showing that respect back. Even beyond his play on the floor, he’s played as great a role as anyone in the worldwide expansion of the game.

Minneapolis has always had a special affection for Bryant and the Lakers.