Bryant’s Team Isn’t Winning Many Converts

Kobe, from your interview with Mike Bresnahan (Dec. 23), I’m glad to hear you will pass to your teammates if you are double-teamed. Let us recap your contributions from the Dec. 17 overtime game against Washington.

Five-minute overtime begins:

4:34 Bryant shot blocked.

3:55 Bryant misses layup.

2:30 Bryant misses six-footer.

2:05 Bryant makes 27-footer.

1:22 Bryant misses 26-footer.

0:38 Bryant misses layup.

0:33 Bryant makes two free throws.

0:08 Bryant makes 26-footer.

0:04 Bryant misses one of two free throws.

0:04 Bryant lane violation.

0:00 Bryant misses 35-foot jump shot and Lakers lose.

Thank God for single coverage or Kobe might have had to use his teammates.

Patrick Duff

Aliso Viejo

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Not to beat a dead horse, but is it a coincidence that Dwyane Wade now looks like the next Michael Jordan while Kobe Bryant looks more and more like World B. Free every day?

Harry Klos

Los Angeles

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Ode to Jerry Buss, to the tune of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”

We wish you owned the Clippers.

We wish you owned the Clippers.

We wish you owned the Clippers.

And you took Kobe there.

Bad timing you had for you and your kin.

Bad timing for trophies that we’ll never win.

We wish you owned the Clippers.

We wish you owned the Clippers.

We wish you owned the Clippers.

And you had nicer hair.

Annie Eitman

Moorpark

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So Shaq says he “always does things the right way ... the classy way,” in contrast to Kobe. Does calling out your owner for a new contract in the middle of a game or calling your GM an “idiot” or showing up out of shape every year or phoning in an entire championship series constitute “classy.” Only in the world of the “Big Self-Delusion.”

Allan Kandel

Los Angeles