Will Lakers’ Kobe Bryant Win His Fifth Championship in Two Seasons?

Make no mistake about it, Kobe Bryant won four championships last season.

Some may note that the championship rings of 2000-2002 were in Bryant’s display case years ago, but the sad truth is the rest of the world has taken this long to catch up.

Until the Lakers’ clinched their 2009 NBA Championship, almost everyone had forgotten the reasoning behind the success of the three-peat Lakers earlier this decade: with Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, the Lakers had the two best players in basketball and the quality of the veteran role-players around them augmented them all the more, simply making them unfair to play against.

The Lakers were by no means a team comprised of just Shaq.

But that was all forgotten. Instead, many analysts, and random haters wit...

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