Lakers’ Kobe Bufkin is ‘excited to get to work’ as team’s new addition

LOS ANGELES — Just ask Kobe Bufkin. Sharing the same first name as Kobe Bryant while playing in the arena that the “Black Mamba” called home is worth sharing, even when not asked about it.

Bufkin, the Lakers’ new signee, took fewer than 30 seconds to bring up the fact in the minutes before the Lakers took on the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night.

“My name being Kobe is very cool,” Bufkin told the Southern California News Group on Monday. “I’m just excited to get to work, and whatever that comes with.”

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