Kobe Bryant: The Greatest L.A. Laker Might Be the Greatest Ever

He’s the greatest Laker of them all, and in case you didn’t know, that franchise hasn’t exactly had chopped liver playing for it over the generations.

It all started with No. 99, George Mikan, the NBA’s first redwood. That was when the lakes the team played near were in Minneapolis, not Los Angeles. Mikan was 6′10″ at a time when any player whose dome rose more than six feet from the ground was considered basketball-ready.

Mikan played among relative Lilliputians, but that doesn’t take away from the trail he blazed in the NBA; that is, being the first true big man who wasn’t as immobile as a pylon and wh...

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