After Sunday's 112-96 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, a defeat during which he scored 19 points with three assists and two rebounds despite playing only in the first and third quarters to rest a sore right knee, Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant was asked what advice he'd offer to the rookie version of himself — the brash but gifted 18-year-old who'd landed in Hollywood by way of Philadelphia, Italy, Lower Merion and Charlotte, teeming with talent and trying to take those first tenuous steps toward stardom. His answer was, perhaps, somewhat surprising. From Mark Medina of the Los Angeles Daily News : [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] "It's hard to tell somebody at that age to understand compassion and empathy," Bryant said. "That would be my advice. It comes with time." At first blush, that sounds a little funny — like, " Of course Kobe, good ol' fanatically competitive and borderline-crazy Kobe, has a hard time with the concept of understanding the suffering and feelings of others." Then you think about it for a second, and you think about how differently you respond to people and their emotions today than you did when you...