Is there another twist in Kobe Bryant’s LA story?

It’s hard to think of as bad a team that’s been as compelling to follow as the current Los Angeles Lakers.

Or to be more precise, Kobe Bryant’s Los Angeles Lakers.

For sure, we’ve seen the once-so-mighty teams stumble rapidly before, Manchester United last season being an obvious and recent case in point. But they were very much David Moyes’s Manchester United, the side’s big-name players largely escaping the brickbats directed at their manager.