Kobe Bryant shrugs off ESPN report blaming him for Lakers frachise’s downfall

All week, Kobe Bryant spent part of his time calling ESPN "idiots" for recently ranking him the 40th best player in the NBA. So when ESPN The Magazine published a story citing unnamed sources that suggested Bryant's dominating personality served as the primary reason for both the Lakers' recent demise and ability to attract top-level free agents, one could only imagine what sort of adjectives Bryant would throw.