Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers Primed For New Challenges This Season
August 6th, 2010 by Josh Martin Leave a reply »With the ink barely dry on Shannon Brown's new two-year contract, the Lakers roster for the upcoming season is just about set. Only contracts for LA's two second-round draft picks - Derrick Caracter and Devin Ebanks - are left to be arranged.
Now that everything is in place and speculation about possible moves and signings has given way to the reality of core players returning and new arrivals fortifying the bench, it would seem appropriate to ponder what the 2010-2011 season has in store for the Purple and Gold, with three big questions that Laker Nation had at the start of the offseason:
How might the physical health of the team affect its performance this year?
After three straight seasons of more than 100 games each and international offseason tournaments sprinkled in between (i.e. the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing), it would stand to reason that LA's current dynastic core of Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum, Lamar Odom, and Derek Fisher came into the summer with a fair amount of bumps and bruises, to say the least.
Kobe and Bynum, in particular, suffered through some rat ...
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