Lakers guard Kobe Bryant isn’t sure how his team will respond against New Orleans on Sunday.

"I'm not sure. I don't know," Bryant said, chuckling. "This team is so weird. I don't know what the hell everybody is going to look like tomorrow. So I don't know."

Bryant has a point about the Lakers.

The Lakers then went 17-1 after the All-Star break, then they lost five consecutive games before finishing the season on a two-game winning streak.

"We've had a very up-and-down finish," Coach Phil Jackson said Thursday. "There's no doubt that the last 25 games don't make sense in a lot of ways — having a great win in a sequence of games and then losing five in a row from one Sunday to the next."