Harden, Jones lead Houston Rockets past Lakers again, 107-87

A vintage third-quarter performance by Kobe Bryant failed to prevent the Houston Rockets from rolling past the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday.

“That’s a dream”, Durant said of Bryant playing 20 seasons. With the loss, Los Angeles falls to 4-22 on the season overall and 2-7 at home. “How much am I going to be fined?” “I didn’t think he had enough legs to do it, but it’s pretty cool”.

Bryant drove right, lifted and dunked about as hard as his 37-year-old body let him Thursday, triggering a bench reaction spearheaded by Russell. Howard’s move also essentially guaranteed Bryant would finish his career without a sixth ring with the Lakers.

Even if the time is limited for this set of superstars who carried the NBA for the last two decades, the impact that they made in the world of basketball is still being felt, even among the rising stars, such as Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors.

“They’ve got a bunch of players over there that like to compete”, Bryant said of the Rockets. I caught Denzel Washington’s attention and I was like, I don’t know what I did.

Sorry, Dwight. You mentioned it, so we have to show it. “(It’s) to try to get these guys to play better, to make myself to play better”, Howard stated.

Kobe Bryant dropped 22 points in his team’s loss to the Rockets, according to the team’s website.

Houston also defeated the Lakers for the fifth consecutive time at the Staples Center.

ESPN reports that it’s the first dunk of the season for the Black Mamba, who is averaging 16.5 points per game on a career-low.

“Honestly, I don’t know where that came from”, Bryant said.

At first, Russell thought, “How much is that?”

He got the crowd standing again with an under-the-hoop layup later in the quarter.

As for the other Lakers, Julius Randle had 18 points and 10 rebounds while Russell stumbled with only two points on one-for-nine accuracy.

The Lakers played the Houston Rockets for the second time in six days, this time at Staples Center. Even Clippers fans boo Howard for his decision to leave L.A…. Clint Capela had 10 points and 12 boards, while Trevor Ariza and Patrick Beverley had 13 points apiece. We really should enjoy these last glimpses we do get of him. The team shot under 35 percent from the field in the first 24 minutes, including 25 percent from 3-point range, and compounded that by only making 4-of-9 free throws.