Kobe Bryant’s Transformation Missing Ingredient to LA Lakers’ Long-Term Success

Kobe Bryant has been a part of both the problem and the solution for the Los Angeles Lakers all season.

To place the entire weight of Los Angeles' failures upon his shoulders would be unscrupulous, yet to exonerate him from any blame in the matter would be equally improper. Everyone on the Lakers, from Kobe to Dwight Howard to Pau Gasol, has had a hand (or two) in this fiasco.

But where blame for their shortcomings can be dispersed, credit for Kobe's abrupt evolution cannot.

While 34-year-olds and 17-year veterans are supposed to be p...

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