Durant leads charge in runaway victory over Lakers

“Kobe’s fearless”, Scott said.

“The Sacramento Kings in the playoffs were tough”, Bryant said next, referring to one of his team’s fiercest rivals, whom they faced and defeated in consecutive playoff series from 2000-2002.

Twenty-three games into the regular season, the venerable Lakers star Kobe Bryant is finally starting to look like his old self.

The Lakers are paying Bryant $25 million this season and somehow squeezing revenue from it while following up last season’s heinous 21-61 record with an even worse 4-22 start.

Bryant has shot over 50 percent from the field through his last six games, which is a far cry from current season average of 33.9 percentage.

Steven Adams had another productive game for Oklahoma City as the Thunder thumped the Los Angeles Lakers 118-78 in the National Basketball Association today.

Bryant averaged 22.3 points on 46.5 percent shooting, while Jordan averaged 24.5 points on 43.5 percent, all of which came at age 33 and older.

He dunked Thursday for the first time since January and the home crowd went bonkers. The Lakers trailed the Houston Rockets by eight at the time and would lose by 20.

The Los Angeles Lakers are a long way from being the dominant juggernaut that we have all been accustomed to seeing in the past few decades.

NOTES: Los Angeles F Kobe Bryant sat out with a sore shoulder. After the game, Scott called out his team for playing “scared”.

“It’s just some soreness”, Scott said. “The thing that I always tell you guys is I control what I can, and I go out there and play hard. He wasn’t bland, he wasn’t neutral”, Corb said. Through his time in the NBA, Bryant has won multiple championships and individual awards that have highlighted just how great of a player he really is. “So I can understand their frustration, but at the same time I would hope they understand that the group of players on the floor, especially in crunch time, haven’t been there and haven’t done that”. And it’s certainly a moment that stuck with Lakers rookie D’Angelo Russell, who summed up the awe and fear of God that Bryant’s dunk instilled in his teenage psyche with a priceless quote in the postgame.

Each team was playing its second game in as many days, but while the Knicks were coming off a straightforward win over the hapless Philadelphia 76ers, the Bulls lost in quadruple-overtime to the Detroit Pistons on Friday night and didn’t even get to their NY hotel until almost 5:00 am, coach Fred Hoiberg said. That seems inevitable but the Lakers can trade Nick Young and give the Lakers a better chance to win games.