LA Lakers Title Recipe Mixes Zen, Kobe, and Unruffled Architect’s Plat

The loudest night of Kobe Bryant's career began with silence.

Coach Phil Jackson said everything his team needed to hear before tipoff of Game Five, which the Los Angeles Lakers won 99-86, by saying nothing.

Call it rambunctiousness through meditation.

After the clock expired and the hushed Orlando crowd had begun to lick wounds still open after 14 years, Bryant and Fisher tearfully embraced.

Jackson, now the winningest coach in league history, threw up his sophic hands and let the crest of a 10th title wave submerge him.

From walking off Boston's TD Banknorth Garden parquet wearing the humiliation of a 39-point defeat to quashing Orlando's enchanted touch, consider the transformation complete.

Mission accomplished.

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