“For Kobe, the process has been ... who’s used to having the ball in his hands all the time. The young Frobe admitted he wasn’t used to being a team’s playmaker. So, the challenge for ...

young Kobe was, as people like to call it, a different beast. This is by no means a knock on the “old” version of the player, but Frobe was a more athletic version of the same animal.

Given Kobe Bryant's stature as the greatest Laker ... Jones and Van Exel were out of the picture, and together with Shaq, "Frobe" powered the Purple & Gold to its first of three consecutive ...