PHOENIX – When checking in with a buddy who now lives in Arizona to say I’d be in the area this weekend to cover the Lakers-Suns game today, I got quite a jolt. He volunteered this surprising news: “I’m coming around on Kobe.” What the?! When people haven’t liked Kobe Bryant in the past, their stances have been more concrete than Hoover Dam. You had more chance of getting Kwame Brown to score 81 points in a game than you had of getting a Kobe-hater to start “coming around.”…

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