The L.A. Lakers have lost 12 straight games

I don't know what's wrong either, Kobe.

I'm sure I'll regret writing this come spring time.  And obviously I understand the exhibition games are irrelevant.  But for now it's amusing to bask in the recent failures of the Celtics longtime rivals.

At the end of last season Kobe and Co. lost their final 2 playoff games.  Amazingly they went 0-8 in the preseason.  And now they have dropped their first 2 contests to start the regular season.  By my calculations 2 + 8 + 2 = 12.

I've always been of the opinion that Dwight Howard is overrated.  And last week I predicted that their coach, Mike Brown, would be the first one fired this year in the Western Conference (when they hired him I thought it was a bad idea; the entirety of his resume was "guy who happened to be the Cavs coach while they had Lebron").  So far, so good.

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