{"id":284272,"date":"2010-02-05T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=14898"},"modified":"2010-02-05T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:30:15","slug":"bryant-expected-to-play-vs-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/284272","title":{"rendered":"Bryant Expected To Play Vs. Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/jm.jsp?ref=lakers_uclahealth&#038;dest=http:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/injuryreport_ucla.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Despite aggravating his ankle sprain against Charlotte on Wednesday, Kobe Bryant is expected to play against Denver on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Jackson confirmed as much subsequent to Friday morning&#8217;s shootaround at L.A.&#8217;s practice facility, saying that Bryant participated in limited fashion, though he received treatment during some of the drills.<\/p>\n<p>That Bryant would again battle through an injury comes as no surprise, of course; in fact, Kobe has not missed a game due to injury since Dec. 8, 2006 against Atlanta, when he sat with a newly sprained ankle before returning two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Denver is dealing with its own ankle injury, as All-Star Carmelo Anthony has missed six consecutive games with a sprained ankle, and told Yahoo! Sports that he would not play until it was 100 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers won&#8217;t officially know Anthony&#8217;s status until game time, however, and Phil Jackson said that L.A. would prepare for both his inclusion and his exclusion from the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite aggravating his ankle sprain against Charlotte on Wednesday, Kobe Bryant is expected to play against Denver on Friday. Phil Jackson confirmed as much subsequent to Friday morning&#8217;s shootaround at L.A.&#8217;s practice facility, saying that Bryant participated in limited fashion, though he received treatment during some of the drills. That Bryant would again battle through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}