Many wrote ‘The Black Mamba’ off at the end of last season. Admittedly, Kobe Bryant did look like ‘Father Time’ had finally caught up to him towards the end of the 2010-11 campaign, dude was suffering through a multitude of injuries and if it wasn’t for blood-platelet therapy in Germany, we may have seen the last of Kobe as we knew him.
The Lakers superstar says he questioned whether he could still play at the level he was accustomed to.
“There were a lot of thoughts, a lot of self-evaluating going on, wondering, how can I ever be effective again? How am I going to play despite this knee? I couldn’t move. It was just so painful. There was nothing I could do.
“But now I feel brand new, man.”
Indeed he is, Kobe finished just shy of winning the scoring title at age 33, preferring to concentrate on winning his 6th ring.
