Even veterans like Lamar Odom and Chauncey Billups have shown positive effects from the experience. Billups is shooting a career-high 43 per cent on three-pointers and Odom, perhaps more than ever, has been the versatile glue holding the Lakers together.
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"He's in great shape and just in a great rhythm," Bryant said of Odom. "He's worked on his jump shot a lot. He was a good shooter last year, but this year he's even better."
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The less-heralded players who went to Turkey for the world championships last summer and returned home with the country's first gold medal in that competition since 1994 have asserted themselves this season as a group ready to join LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and the rest of the NBA's elite.