Kobe Bryant will not play in the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday due to a sore shoulder.
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After the Los Angeles Lakers suffered the sixth-worst loss in team history Saturday, falling 118-78 to the Thunder at Chesapeake Energy Arena, coach Byron Scott said his players were “scared” and “in awe” of Oklahoma City.
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Asked about his dunk Thursday against Houston – his first of the season, which might have contributed to his shoulder issue – Bryant said he was as excited as his younger teammates.
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Kobe Bryant says he’ll be “completely fine” if he doesn’t get one last All Star appearance before calling time on his 20-year National Basketball Association career.
“That’s something I am actually pressing for”, said Bryant, who won gold medals with the US. He entered the 2015-16 campaign having played only a combined 41 games the previous two years because of three season-ending injuries.
Thanks, Terrence Jones, and other takeaways from the win over the Lakers.
“It’s not something I’m absolutely pressing for but being part of the Olympic experience is a attractive thing”, Bryant said. “I grew up overseas, I grew up in Italy (where his father played professionally), and to be able to see how basketball became such an global sport first-hand… it would be a attractive thing for me personally to be able to finish my career on the worldwide stage”.
The most surprising play of the game came late in that same quarter when Bryant drove down the lane, and put Rockets’ forward Clint Capela on what could be the final poster of his career. Yet the Lakers’ eight-game road trip beginning next week is nearly certain to begin a prolonged goodbye to Bryant, one of the NBA’s most popular and most divisive players.
Bryant sat in street clothes on the Lakers’ bench while Durant and Westbrook quickly took control for Oklahoma City.
Olajwon’s selection is interesting as he played center, while Bryant has spent most of his career at the shooting guard position. This year’s second-overall pick, D’Angelo Russell, who’s averaging 11.9 points per game, relinquished his starting spot to Lou Williams, last season’s Sixth Man of the Year. “That’s my way of letting you know that I’m completely fine with whatever role I have at All-Star weekend”. “Being assured that there is a light at the end of the tunnel by guys that have gone through it and that are champions, you can always hold on to that if you continue to work on your craft and practice hard, compete, there’s going to come a time when you get over that hump”.
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Lance Thomas scored 13 off the bench. “First dribble, second dribble, I said, ‘My legs feel pretty good'”. It led to Ibaka’s 3-pointer from the corner and a 30-point lead for the Thunder.
