Player grades.

Kobe A on court B for citizenship, too many techs this year, needs to learn to shuss up

Fisher A for effort, and being a team leader, B for actual perfomance

Odom B could be an A by the end of the season

Bynum B on the court, big honking A for his improvement

Pau strong B like odom an A is on the horizon

Turiaf B great effort and hustle, game play improving nightly, he has been the teams saving grace with the bigs down

Luke B- for finding ways to contribute while shuffled up anddown the roster depending on the lakers needs, and quietly fighting through the injuries and doing all the little things that go unrecognized

Sasha B- nice shooting tex, nice hustle on defense

Farmar C+ his improvement this year has been astonishing from his rookie season, needs to play within himself but that will come

Vlad Rad C could easily be better but the grade represents the inconsistancies in his game, like sasha he has only two things to worry about shoot and defend and until he does both better he gets a lower grade

ariza, mihm, newble, mbenga and karl, N/A at this time not enough game time to see you play

Coaching Staff A. for diffusing an off season that could have been a huge disaster and turning the group into winners inspite of kobes insults and seemingly early efforts to drag his feet...

Buss, Mitch and Crew for taking the high road through it all and proving my faith in you was not misplaced A+