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Pelton: Can Kobe Bryant be good again?

ESPN NBA analyst Tim Legler looks at what's been going wrong for Kobe Bryant so far this season, causing him to take a day off from Lakers practice.

This way isn't working for Kobe Bryant, and the Los Angeles Lakers star knows it.

Three games into the 2015-16 season, Bryant is missing nearly 70 percent of his shots and the Lakers have started 0-3, leading to a series of increasingly more frustrated postgame quotes.

"I'm the 200th-best player in the league right now," Bryant said after Sunday's home loss to the Dallas Mavericks. "I freaking suck.