So here’s a really funny thing: Kobe wasn’t the best player on any of those five championship teams. When Kobe was the Lakers’ best player (i.e. when he didn’t get to play with peak Pau or Shaq), the Lakers were just a run-of-the-mill good team.

T20 is garbage but this was fun as hell. One thing: Samuels and Stokes have a bit of a history, including one incident where Samuels gave Stokes a military salute after Stokes was dismissed in a test match last year: