After the Lakers, without Kobe Bryant, beat the Warriors last night, the team with the best record in the NBA, you have to wonder what happens when they next start Kobe and the Lakers go back to their losing ways.

Looks like a repeat of the 2012 conundrum the Knicks faced. Are we Melo's team, or are we winners? You can't be both.

This is why I love basketball. It often finds these very precise questions, and very often people make the (imho) wrong choice.

The right choice, btw -- is fuck Kobe, let's win.