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Kobe Bryant on snapping losing streak: ‘It doesn’t really matter’

It’s no secret the Los Angeles Lakers are a bad basketball team, one that is certain to miss the playoffs during the final season of Kobe Bryant’s illustrious NBA career.

The club is currently stuck in a 10-game losing streak, but an upcoming matchup against the slumping Minnesota Timberwolves provides hope the Lakers can notch their 10th win of the 2015-16 season. According to Bill Oram of the Orange County Register, Kobe doesn’t care if it happens.

Isn’t old man Kobe fun?

The team has mustered a single win in 15 outings since the Golden State Warriors snapped Los Angeles’run of three consecutive victories.

Although the schedule certainly hasn’t done the Lakers any favors — playing Golden State twice as well as the San Antonio Spurs, Oklahoma City Thunder and Los Angeles Clippers once — it’s not like a few scattered wins would make a significant difference on the year.

Los Angeles is working on a two-season streak of setting franchise-worst records while based on the West Coast. Bryant and Co. are on pace to and will likely extend that unfortunate factoid.

After all, the 2014-15 Lakers finished 21-61. The current squad (9-41) must somehow manage 13 victories over a 32-game stretch. Los Angeles has shown nothing to suggest that will happen.

Considering that, why would a win over Minnesota matter? Other than avoiding the worst record in NBA history (1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers, 9-73), a victory — in Kobe’s edited words — improves the Lakers’ [crappy] season to ever-so-slightly less [crappy].

Kobe is neither expecting nor demanding wins during his farewell tour. That’s a sad way to watch a basketball legend end his career, but there’s no reason for Bryant to pretend like a few more victories matter.

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