Lakers News: LA Should Temper Rampant Optimism About Kobe Bryant’s Recovery

For a team that could very well head to the lottery due to its own futility for just the third time in history, the levels of dopamine seem unusually high at Los Angeles Lakers facilities.

Everything painted out of the halls of Staples Center is coming in purple and gold roses. There are no fears, no trepidation, no overwhelming sense of melancholy one would expect to come eroding like the stench of month-old coffee. The whole place feels eerily Jim Jonesian considering the unending turmoil that enveloped the 2012-13 season.

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