Now we have a storyline that is a little more focused than the “What will Kobe Bryant do when the season ends?” storyline. A storyline of which you, the reader, will get a game by game update on how Kobe is feeling. So get ready for 24/7 Kobe Bryant news. SportsCenter may as well have a ‘Kobe hour’ the morning after every game.
Anyways, fortune telling aside, Byron Scott has been very candid about his thoughts on Kobe recently. Kobe hints to him that it might be his last year? We know about it. And in this case, Scott is unsure whether Kobe will play all 82 games.
“That’s a grind, to try to play all 82,” Scott said Monday after the Lakers practiced without Bryant, who was given the day off. “We’re going to talk again.”
“I know how he feels and I understand that but my objective is to get him to play this whole season and that might mean missing some games just so he could get through the whole year.”
“I’m really relying on him to kind of tell me how he feels body-wise and energy-wise,” Scott said. “He’s always been pretty honest with me about that. Sometimes he’ll say he feels like you-know-what and other times he’ll say, ‘I feel good.’ “
Now this comes from Bryant saying to Scott that he wants to play all 82. We can all agree it’ll take a miracle for that to happen, but you never know, crazier things have happened. I just want Kobe to not play badly. Some of these plays I’m seeing just makes me cringe.
