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Thunder’s Kevin Durant: Scores 22 in Saturday’s win
Kobe Bryant rules out playing in Europe, but can envision Olympic finish: Kobe Bryant will retire from the National Basketball Association after this season, but his playing career won’t necessarily end right then and there.
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“I definitely plan on helping the game spread and helping kids all around the world understand all that surrounds the game and its potential”, Bryant said.
Oklahoma City rested its starters in the fourth quarter and the Lakers were unable to do anything against the Thunder reserves. Turns out, Bryant was a last-minute scratch from the starting lineup due to a shoulder injury.
Russell Westbrook added 13 points and 11 assists for his 18th double-double of the season for Oklahoma City. In 2011, the Lakers beat Scott’s post-LeBron James Cavaliers by 55 points. Louis Williams led the way for the Lakers with 20 points. We didn’t play with energy. 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. Both 2015 number two pick point guard D’Angelo Russell and second year forward Julius Randle stated that they were not scared, according to ESPN.
Bryant, who made nine of 16 shots, including a pair of three-pointers, scored 22 points and had eight rebounds for the Lakers (4-22), who lost for the seventh time in their past eight games. His first came a little more than 3 minutes into the game to cap an 8-0 Thunder run. The Thunder did a good job of shutting down everyone else, which allowed them to take a 67-41 halftime advantage.
“It’s just some soreness”, Scott said. Scott added of his players, “They didn’t play well at all and really just got embarrassed by the way we played tonight”.
“It’s just something that needs a couple days”, Bryant said via the Los Angeles Times, adding that he hopes to be ready for Tuesday’s game in Denver. “At the same token, they still had enough cap space to get a marquee free agent and build role players after that”.
For one night, the Lakers forgot they are the worst team in the Western Conference.
He announced his retirement from basketball last month with a poem expressing his love of the sport. Brown’s first career start came in his sixth career appearance. The Kiwi star finished the match with 10 points and seven rebounds on the night.
Brown went to the bench when he picked up his second foul midway through the first quarter. The Thunder wore their alternate sleeved jerseys. “But that being said we will see how it goes”.
Bryant said the shoulder was troubling him even before he threw down his first dunk of the season against Houston on Thursday – no surprise since he had surgery to fix a torn rotator cuff in the same shoulder earlier this year.
“I’m sure it didn’t help”, he said.
“It’s not about handing over keys or anything of that nature”, Bryant said.
Bryant, who has the same agent as Exum and has got to know him, is confident he will bounce back.
Bryant warmed up for Sunday’s game amidst even more than the usual swarm of camera phones and flashes surrounding the court.
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Bryant and Durant have developed a mutual admiration for each other ever since Durant entered the league in 2007. “It’s wonderful. Not too many people can say that”.