The best part (if you can call it that) about Kobe Bryant playing on perhaps the second worst team assembled by Lakers during his career, is a performance like the one he had in Portland last night. Playing all 48 minutes in the game, Bean was Mr. Everything registering 47 points, eight rebounds, five assists, four blocks and three steals.
“That’s what you try to do is you try to do whatever you can,” Bryant said of his all-around effort. “You don’t look for excuses, you don’t wait for anybody else to make rotations, you do it yourself and by doing it, it sets an example for everybody else to do the same thing.”
Not bad for a guy in his 17th season.
H/N LA Times
