Reading a news article today from one of our tabloid newspapers intrigued me. It insinuated that with Shaq, Malone, Payton and Derek Fisher gone, Kobe Bryant is now the undisputed leader of the Lakers basketball team. Perhaps it was not an insinuation but a statement of fact. However, when I recall the recent Lakers-Pistons championship games where at one point I saw a Kobe Bryant who was asking for a pass from team mates, the news article really raises questions in my head. Was the loss ...

With Phil Jackson's new book coming up, will Laker fans finally get to know the real score behind last season's debacle? Who was the a** hole: Kobe or Shaq? Read these two ESPN articles for more details: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1901494 http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1900031