DILBECK: Lakers teammates bail out on Kobe when he needed them most - LA Daily News

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 DILBECK: Lakers teammates bail out on Kobe when he needed them most - LA Daily News
SALT LAKE CITY They were supposed to have learned this lesson by now. Were supposed to have relished the learning, felt they were a better team for it. Yet there the Lakers were Sunday, standing around, waiting for Kobe Bryant to save them at the very moment he struggled to even lift himself off the floor. At a time when they needed to lift him up, the Lakers passed him the ball and reverted ... [link]

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SportsBrief - May 12
Published 5/12/2008 by Matt Halmy at SportsHubLA
... . Why that happened is the question Plaschke poses. Steve Dilbeck of the Daily News writes that Kobe’s teammates left him on an island in OT. Jeff Miller of the Register says Back is the buzzword for Game 5. ...

Knotted up
Published 5/12/2008 by kambrothers at Lakers Blog
... , or was it the other way around? ). The Lakers played from behind most of the day on Sunday, both on the scoreboard and from a personnel standpoint, once Ronny Turiaf was lost after a ...

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