Updated: February 22, 2013, 7:12 am ET

Kobe Encourages Lakers to Play for Buss

By HOOPSWORLD
Basketball News & NBA Rumors

(Kobe) Bryant ended his talk by challenging his current teammates who were seated in the audience.

“For our current Lakers, I encourage all of you to look around the room, look at the greatness of one man’s vision, look at the players that are here, coaches that are here; we have one thing in common, we all believe in Dr. Jerry Buss,” Bryant said. “We are playing for something bigger than ourselves, bigger than a single season, playing for the memory of a great man, Dr. Jerry Buss.”

via Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times

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