Sports Illustrated’s interview with Kobe Bryant is just as revealing and interesting as the one the magazine recently gave us featuring Phil Jackson. Kobe Bryant’s basketball brain is rather large, so any time he goes on record you can trust that interesting stuff will come out, even if you can see right through the bluster. What he gave SI’s Jack McCallum on Feb. 12 was bluster, but it’s also a direct line into Bryant’s thinking. Kobe won’t consider for a second that the Los Angeles Lakers aren’t making the playoffs this season, and he’s not letting his team’s 26-29 (and, at the time of the interview, 24-28) record deter him. He’s making the playoffs, and he…