Latest Odds Surrounding LA Lakers’ Playoff Hopes

If the Los Angeles Lakers are going to cast doubters aside and make the playoffs in 2013, it's going to take an inspired performance from Kobe Bryant and this rest of this star-studded lineup.

The Lakers continue to struggle against top opponents, falling to the Chicago Bulls on Monday night by a 95-83 score. LA can't seem to find the right mix of offensive and defense to put a long winning streak together, as the Dwight Howard-Pau Gasol tandem just isn't working and players like Kirk Hinrich and Marco Belinelli lit the team up from the outside.

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