News came over the weekend that the Los Angeles Lakers will be without superstar guard Kobe Bryant for the remainder of their season. The 36-year-old former champion is undergoing surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in his shoulder.
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Bryant is leading the Lakers in points, assists, usage rate, and is near the top of their list in PER. That's a lot of production Los Angeles will now need to replace. Will they find a way? If the team's shooting guard Nick Young has any say, the solution will actually be quite easy.
Nick Young on what the Lakers must do without Kobe: "Pretty much just give me the ball and get out of the way."
— Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) January 26, 2015
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Swaggy P is averaging 14.1 points per game this year, down from 17.9 a season ago. With Bryant on the bench for an extended period of time, he's probably going to have a lot of opportunities to get that scoring up in the coming weeks.
However, Young got off to an inauspicious start in the post-Kobe era: he was benched in Monday's night game against the Houston Rockets for a lack of defensive effort.
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