Man that's a bummer... At least you get to see two of the worst teams in the NBA though. Now you can go with a bag on your head and hope for a loss?
Ramona Shelburne ✔ @ramonashelburne Final word from the doctor today is still to come, but I'm told the Lakers are expecting Kobe to miss the rest of the season
The bright side is I didn't but my tickets yet. At this rate they'll practically be giving away tickets to this game.
Definitely. I'm probably going to go to a couple Staples Center games at the end of the year since they'll be a quarter of the regular price.
I hope he goes to Germany... or better yet Miami in the summer (or even sooner) and comes back with a vengeance.
Surgery time. He'll come back for his last season and hopefully we'll have a better team around him. Hopefully Randle takes a huge leap. Hopefully that Top Five pick gets here and is ready to make an impact.
It could have been worse...like a cramp. The last three seasons including this one have been real downers...
I just remembered when he was having bad FT shooting early in the season and was asked about, i can not remember what he blamed, but it made me think, that like one report suggested, he was hurt the whole time. Maybe hes FG% was not fatigue, he played till he got MJ-TV ratings were good, everebody watched an then they slowly shut it down with fatigue and then this injury, which he maybe had all the time(i suppose they knew, that it can not get worse). And now we can go into full tank mode... Conspiracy theory.
That's a really good point. It certainly seems like they geared everything to go get that record. Once he got it he completely changed his game up. So you're saying he tore it really early, knew it was torn, kept playing until they could find a reason to shut him down? Still though, his frailty might be more real than I'd hoped.
I believe his frailty his real. However, the 'soreness' came upon him in the preseason; Byron said he started complaining about that soreness in that shoulder about a month in a half ago; Kobe's minutes started decreasing about that time when it started really agitating him. I'm not a medical expert, so I'm not sure if he exacerbated the problem by still playing or not...also, I'm interested to know even before they started reducing the minutes when Kobe was being run into the ground, if there is any correlation to playing him that many minutes that the shoulder worsening through all that wear and tear on his body?
