Report: Lakers reached out to Gilbert Arenas

The good news is for the Los Angeles Lakers that they're still only 12-9. They just beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 106-101 to improve to that mark, in a game where Andrew Bynum went for 21 points and 7 rebounds alongside fellow big man Pau Gasol who finished with 28 and 6. Also good news. Depending on which way you look at it, the 35 points and 14 rebounds that Kobe went for in that one is kind of encouraging too. Unless you're concerned by the idea that Bryant, Gasol, and Bynum can combine to score 84 points and grab 27 rebounds between the three of them and they still only beat the Timberwolves by 5. Or the fact that Kobe is playing over 38 minutes per game, averaging over 30 points per night himself, and the Lakers have won only twelve times in twenty-one tries. You might also be concerned, Lakers Nation, that despite the production from Kobe his team isn't doing enough to score 100-points per night on a regular basis either. Prior to that win over th...