Don't worry, Lakers fans. This does not mean that the Lakers season is lost. In fact, the impact on the season should be virtually null.
There are a combination of reasons for this, but the primary reason has nothing to do with Germany, knees or blood-spinning. Rather, it's a Canadian who causes more head spinning than anything else: Steve Nash.
For the first time in his career, Bryant will not be the player who dominates the ball most of the time. Yes, there are plenty of people who scoff at that notion, but Bryant and Nash are not among them.
Of all people entitled to weigh in on this issue, Bryant shouldn't be the last opinion to consider, and his is pretty definite. Here it is as reported by J.A. Adande of ESPN:
The Heat had two players who were really similar, different in size but similar in how they handled the ball and what they liked to do. Here, Steve's primarily the facilitator, ball handler. I can go back to my natural place, which is scoring the ball, attacking the rim. We all know what Dwight does.
So according to Bryant himself, Nash is going to be the primary facilitator on this team. There are going to be those who doubt his words, but those are his words, not Kelly Scaletta's, not Adande's, not even Mike Brown's.
But, some will protest, it's Bryant who has dominated the ball his whole career.
Well, not quite. Brian Kamenetzky of ESPN Los Angeles notes,
Kobe Bryant is going to be a high-usage player, appropriately so. But that the last time he was below 30 came when surrounded by another star-stud...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Los Angeles Lakers
