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Yes, those Lakers. You might remember them from a few years back when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal were buddies, courtside seats cost $2,000 a game, and the biggest problem owner Jerry Buss had was figuring out how many diamonds to put on the championship rings.

Sitting near Nicholson will still set you back a mortgage payment or two. The Laker Girls still look Hollywood perfect, and Bryant still shoots every time he touches the ball within 25 feet of the basket.

But even in Tinseltown not everything goes according to script. The dynasty was unraveled quickly when Kobe and Shaq started feuding, Kobe and Phil stopped talking, and Kobe had to go to Colorado to do a lot of explaining.

Credit Bryant for most of that. He’s the dominant player in the game and will end the season as the first player since Michael Jordan in 1987-88 to average 35 points or more.

Give a big assist to Jackson, too, who called Bryant uncoachable in his book yet somehow found a way to coach him when the Lakers offered him $10 million a year to come back.

Not that Jackson has spent much time coaching Bryant. The Zen philosopher now seems to have a new philosophy — let Bryant do what he wants and hope Lamar Odom and a generic collection of understudies pick up enough of the slack for the Lakers to pull out a win.

“It’s not exactly the way you want to have a team win a game, but when you have to win a game, it’s great to have that weapon to be able to do that,” Jackson said.

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