Kobe Bryant told an interviewer that the Lakers “will make the playoffs.” They probably won't, but this is what they'd have to do to get in.
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Kobe Bryant thinks the things he thinks. And one of the things he thinks is that his Lakers — the same Lakers who are Celebrity-Rehab-reunion-episode dysfunctional and lose more often than they win — will make the playoffs in the West. He doesn't just think that it will happen; he knows that it will happen, based on an interview he gave to Sports Illustrated's Jack McCallum.
It's not a question of if we make the playoffs. We will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone — Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Denver ... whoever. I have zero nervousness about that. ... We will make the playoffs. And we will compete.
But will they? Will they REALLY? *plays dramatic music*