I guess Kobe has quite a bit of gas left in the tank.

So the Lakers will have to give up assets to acquire a mediocre player. Yes as I said earlier, there are no magic fixes for this Lakers team right now, they made a stupid emotional trade and now have less talent on the roster. They had a stronger team last year when they got challenged by a poor playoff team missing their second best player (David West). Then they were swept in the second round. Kobe wasn’t the best player on the floor in either of those playoff series. When is that last time you could say that? I’d say the Shaq era when the player clearly superior to Kobe was on his own team. The Lakers dynasty is over. They are nothing special now, just one of the six mid-tier playoff teams in the west.