{"id":332147,"date":"2010-02-17T17:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=15268"},"modified":"2010-02-17T17:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:18:53","slug":"bryant-likely-out-against-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/332147","title":{"rendered":"Bryant Likely Out Against Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>While wearing a pair of sandals that signified his lack of participation in Wednesday’s practice, Kobe Bryant said that he doubted he would be able to play in Thursday’s game against Boston.<\/p>\n

“Right now it’s a no,” he said. “(It’s*) still sore … Can\u2019t push off enough to play, so I\u2019ll take my time.”
\n*UPDATE: Bryant was referring not to his ankle sprain, but a strained peroneal tendon in his lower left leg suffered on Feb. 3 against Charlotte.<\/i><\/p>\n

Bryant conceded that if he wakes up tomorrow and feels drastically different, he’ll play, but doubts that will happen. On the other hand, he has been very pleased with how his teammates have played without him – they’ve gone 4-0 – and said that’s made it easier on him to take his time recovering fully.<\/p>\n

“I think they’re playing with a great sense of urgency,” he said. “They’re playing extremely well at both ends of the floor.”<\/p>\n

If Bryant does not play on Thursday, he will have four more full days to recover until L.A.’s two-game road stretch through Memphis and Dallas that takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 23-24, 18 days removed from his last game (Friday, Feb. 5).<\/p>\n

That, however, does not affect his playing status, as his injury philosophy remains the same.<\/p>\n

“If you’re healthy, you play, it doesn’t matter what the upcoming schedule is,” he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While wearing a pair of sandals that signified his lack of participation in Wednesday’s practice, Kobe Bryant said that he doubted he would be able to play in Thursday’s game against Boston. “Right now it’s a no,” he said. “(It’s*) still sore … Can\u2019t push off enough to play, so I\u2019ll take my time.” *UPDATE: […]<\/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-332147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332147","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=332147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}