With the Lakers acquisitions of Dwight Howard and point guard Steve Nash prior to the season immediately made the Lakers the popular favorite to win the Western Conference and they were crowned the team to take the title to give Kobe Bryant his sixth-championship ring.
On paper it was a sure thing, BUT the Lakers started slowly, fired coach Mike Brown after five games, replaced Brown with Mike D’Antoni and have continued to look out of sorts.
With the NBA trading deadline fastly approaching, will Superman and the Black Mamba remain teammates?
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