Lakers Fragile Psyche Gets a Boost From a Big Win Over Sacramento
By Carl Bialik and Jason FryThe Wall Street Journal Online
March 25, 2004 12:55 pm ET
In the NBA's wild West, no team is more inscrutable than the Los Angeles Lakers.
In Colorado on Wednesday, L.A. star Kobe Bryant faced one of the toughest days so far of his sexual-assault case. Then he flew back in time for a night game against archrival Sacramento, which owns the best record in the conference. The Lakers were winless in their last eight games against top Western teams. So naturally, a court-weary Mr. Bryant scored 36 points and helped the Lakers to a 24-point win. That's par for the course for the Lakers.