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LOS ANGELES – Most of these young Lakers had grown accustomed to the Staples Center cheering on Kobe Bryant's farewell, a separate season within the franchise's most lost year of all. They had grown accustomed to the cheering of wayward, contested shots on the way out the door, on a young team trying to say hello when a legend was saying goodbye. As the final seconds bled away on a 120-114 opening-night victory on Wednesday over Houston, something had changed here.