{"id":295213,"date":"2010-02-08T21:39:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=14993"},"modified":"2010-02-08T21:39:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:39:31","slug":"kobe-bryant-out-against-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295213","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant Out Against Spurs"},"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>The first question asked of Phil Jackson in Monday&#8217;s pregame presser was, of course, regarding the status of Kobe Bryant for the evening&#8217;s game against the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kobe&#8217;s not going to play tonight,&#8221; said Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night in Portland, Bryant had missed his first game since Dec. 8, 2006, due to injury because of a sprained left ankle upon which he had an MRI on Monday morning. Jackson said that he was &#8220;not informed enough to talk about&#8221; the results of the exam, but said that Bryant wants to play in Utah on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think if he feels like he can play, he&#8217;s going to play,&#8221; said Jackson. &#8220;He&#8217;s not going to sit out just because that might extend the duration (for) which he doesn&#8217;t have to play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As such, Bryant will be re-evaluated on Tuesday morning, and again on Wednesday prior to the game in Salt Lake City, L.A.&#8217;s last before the All-Star break. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first question asked of Phil Jackson in Monday&#8217;s pregame presser was, of course, regarding the status of Kobe Bryant for the evening&#8217;s game against the San Antonio Spurs. &#8220;Kobe&#8217;s not going to play tonight,&#8221; said Jackson. On Saturday night in Portland, Bryant had missed his first game since Dec. 8, 2006, due to injury [&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-295213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295213","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=295213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}