Los Angeles Lakers: 15 Players Who Could Hurt Them in the Postseason

As Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers near midseason, they find themselves continuing their up and down ways. They no longer exude that championship swagger.

Gone is the aura of invincibility. Now teams not only think they have a chance against the two-time defending title holders, but they actually do.

At least given the Lakers current track record, LA now appears beatable. 

And the Lakers aren't even the top team, at least in the win-loss columns, in the Western Conference. 

New pretenders or possibly even contenders to the Lakers throne have emerged. And that’s in the West. 

If the Lakers right their ship, get on track and start rolling off victories (always a high probability—they began this season 8-0), there is no r...

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