Tuesday night should have been another pile-on for the hapless Los Angeles Lakers. Lakers coach Byron Scott decided to rest Kobe Bryant in anticipation of a trip to Chicago to play the Bulls on national television on Christmas Day, the visiting Golden State Warriors had already beaten the Lakers by a combined 44 points spread out over two contests, and the NBA's best team seemed primed to destroy the Lakers on Los Angeles' home floor. Because the NBA is the NBA, though, the obvious storyline took shape. Los Angeles moved the ball, it ran a semblance of a structured offense, and it downed the Warriors by a 115-105 score . Seven players scored in double digits against the NBA's best defense so far this season, as the rest of the league rolled its eyes. What a tidy package to behold. Following the win, Laker guard Nick Young was ebullient in comparing his team and its prospects to two celebrated motion pictures. From ESPN Los Angeles' Baxter Holmes : "Some guys just played like 'Django Unchained' -- they were free tonight," he said. And what would Young tell Bryant? "Pretty much going to have to tell Kobe to pass me the ball, pass us the ball," Young said. "Tell him to take the...