{"id":522097,"date":"2010-04-08T22:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T02:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=16584"},"modified":"2010-04-08T22:52:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T02:52:33","slug":"kobe-sits-out-at-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522097","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Sits Out At Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Thursday evening&#8217;s tip off in Denver, we learned that Lakers guard Kobe Bryant would not play against the Nuggets. <\/p>\n<p>He will officially be listed as out with &#8220;right knee swelling,&#8221; according to the Lakers&#8217; PR staff.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Jackson had suggested before the game that certain players might be rested at various points of the team&#8217;s final five games, but did not reveal that he&#8217;d keep Bryant on the shelf. Jackson did, however, suggest that he&#8217;d like to get Bryant some additional rest for his legs heading into the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers essentially have the Western Conference locked up with a 4.5-game lead over both Denver and Dallas (basically need one win or one loss from DEN\/DAL) and hold a 0.5-game lead over Orlando for the No. 2 overall seed behind Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in Bryant&#8217;s place was Sasha Vujacic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Thursday evening&#8217;s tip off in Denver, we learned that Lakers guard Kobe Bryant would not play against the Nuggets. He will officially be listed as out with &#8220;right knee swelling,&#8221; according to the Lakers&#8217; PR staff. Phil Jackson had suggested before the game that certain players might be rested at various points of [&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-522097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522097","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=522097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}