LeBron James and Anthony Davis are injected with the Super Soldier Serum If any of the following happens, I’ll be permanently relocating my predictive powers to Las Vegas and joining LeBron as the country’s newest billionaire. Below, I think I’ve come up with a few of the most optimistic roads that might direct the franchise towards its 18th championship. There are still a number of different paths the organization can take. However, that was probably the easiest part of the offseason for the team. I’d say we are already headed in that direction with the official hiring of head coach Darvin Ham as well as the retention of assistant Phil Handy. Instead, let’s figure out what a best-case scenario for the Lakers’ 2022 offseason might look like. Take a look at that article to at least know that things could be much, much worse than what we’ll eventually see by the end of this summer.īut let’s not just wallow in negativity. Last week, I came up with what is undoubtedly the worst-case scenario for the rest of the 2022 offseason for the Los Angeles Lakers. And it won’t stop me from continuing to consume every new Kobe story that emerges.įor more Lakers talk, subscribe to the Silver Screen and Roll podcast feed on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts. It also speaks to that mystique surrounding Kobe that even a story that appears to have some pretty big inaccuracies was one that seemed like it could be real. In reality, it’s a fun story that had some sort of basis in reality, even if it’s a bit of an exaggeration.
I went down a rabbit hole that had no exit. Look, as I said, I put way too much thought into this. In the second of those gameshe did have a more memorable first half that would come close to fitting Duhon’s description with six assists and seven rebounds. The first of those was a home game against Utah two nights after a road game in Memphis, but he didn’t have a particularly memorable first half in that game. 23, Kobe had a pair of games that followed in which he had a double-double, coming one rebound shy of a triple-double in both. When LeBron had a triple-double at home against LeBronto on Jan. Still though, there were a few ways to continue expanding the parameters to find something similar. Really, there just wasn’t a scenario in which it happened quite as Duhon described. And that was a home game, but in was in a long stretch of them. The closest Kobe came to a performance like that was in his first triple-double when he had nine assists and seven rebounds in the first half in a game he eventually had a triple-double.
Yes, I dove way, way, way too deep down this rabbit hole. Then I tried to see if there was a game in which Kobe had nine rebounds and nine assists in the first half and that never happened either. But the Lakers didn’t have a single game that met that criteria.
So I tried to go about it another way and find the specific game(s) that fit Duhon’s memory of it being a home game on the second night of a back-to-back after a road game. His last triple-double came late in the season when LeBron was sitting out games down the stretch for Miami. Kobe’s first triple-double came very early in the season and before LeBron had recorded one, so that couldn’t be it. But that’s when the red flags were raised. And it should have been pretty easy to cross-reference with LeBron, who only had four triple-doubles that season. It shouldn’t have been hard to find as Kobe only had two triple-doubles in the 2012-13 season. My first inclination when hearing this story is to find the exact game. I mean, who isn’t guilty of forgetting the details of a story or indulging in a more appealing version of them? To be clear, I’m not saying Chris Duhon made this story up, just that memories tend to blur and he’s recounting a story from a decade ago, so I believe it was likely based in reality at the very least. Unfortunately, this story does not seem to be actually factual. In the interview, he shares a hilarious story about Bryant that feels like something the Mamba would absolutely do. It’s actually an old clip, coming from an interview Duhon had on the KarterKast podcast back in September of last year.
Recently, a clip of Duhon talking about that season gaining some popularity, first on Reddit, then across the internet as a whole. The 2012-13 season is mostly remembered for lots of the wrong reasons, but it was also Kobe’s last thoroughly incredible campaign. Duhon spent just one season in LA after being included in the deal that brought Dwight Howard to the Lakers. Chris Duhon is the perfect example of a player few would expect to have a great Kobe story because few probably remember him as a Laker.
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