Bryant misses game against Thunder with injured shoulder

The Los Angeles Lakers need a victory after losing five of their last six games. The Thunder murdered the Lakers, and not seeing Bryant on the court actually seemed encouraging considering the Lakers’ superstar would likely have had no notable impact on the final result.

Bryant said that his legs feel great and that he feels as though he can maintain this higher level of play. “They didn’t play well at all”.

“It would be great, but at the same time I’ve played in a lot of them, so it’s always great to have the younger guys step up and get their opportunities as well”, Bryant said to ESPN. Fans are closely watching the slow but steady developments of rookies and future cornerstones D’Angelo Russell and Julius Randle. Russell then tried to convince Bryant to pick up the tab for the infraction.

Kidd was not pleased, and said that he told his players so. He’s in this alternate universe, operating under the delusion that he’s just playing badly.

The Lakers have raved about Russell’s playmaking, vision and improving shooting stroke. For the season he is averaging 16.7 points on dreary 33.9 percent shooting.

“I haven’t set any goals, honestly. We have given each other all that we have”.

D’Angelo Russell missed six of his seven three-point attempts, his slump from deep continuing from a rough night against the Houston Rockets. “I have to learn to kick out to my teammates better”. He went 9 for 16 and grabbed eight rebounds. Yet, Scott has called for Randle to develop consistency with his off-ball defense, right hand and jumper.

“They want to get a glimpse of greatness”, Scott said.

Facing the inexperienced Brown, Durant went 5 of 7 from the field in the first half and hit both of his 3-point attempts.

The young Lakers will keep coming off the bench.

“That’s what we’re trying to do”.

Just as Russell has been lauded and praised for upping his level of play since being relegated to the sixth man role, so too should Lou Williams for raising his play as the team’s starting guard. “But we’ll let management take care of that. We just trust them”. His assist numbers have also gone up from 3.2 to 4.0 per game in that span.

“It’s a fine line”, Kupchak said.

Because of Houston’s current setbacks and the reported feeling he has toward playing with Harden, Howard was linked to rumors that he will leave Houston either via trade or during next year’s free agency, which according to him is not a concern. “But that’s not my decision”. Which comes first? Generally speaking, they were going to play X amount of minutes no matter what.