Is Kobe playing for the Boston game?

[Smooth Criminal]

Anybody know definitively?

[Killakobe81]

Who cares?! It means more to them ...if we beat them without Kobe it would "crush" them ...

[picc84]

Probably not.

[Smooth Criminal]

Speculation is not what I need. I said definitively

[picc84]

Ok let me go get my time machine and travel to the future when anyone has a chance of knowing.

brb goin to the future, anyone need lottery numbers?

[duncan228]

Looks like we may not know until then.

Kobe misses 4th straight game (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-lakers-bryantout&prov=ap&type=lgns)

Kobe Bryant sat out for a fourth straight game for the Los Angeles Lakers, missing Tuesday night’s contest against the Golden State Warriors.

“He checked out of this game, basically,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said about 90 minutes before tipoff. “He practiced yesterday and was effective, but he didn’t try anything. He didn’t go to the basket, just helped run the team and helped keep things going in the right direction. But this morning, he said he just didn’t feel it and he didn’t have any strength back in the leg to really be explosive. But he didn’t say anything about discomfort at all.”

Bryant’s availability for Thursday night’s rematch with the Boston Celtics also remains in doubt.

“It’s purely up to him,” Jackson said. “When he’s ready to play, we’ll encourage him to play.”

Bryant hasn’t played since Feb. 5, when he aggravated a sprained left ankle. The injury also kept him out of the All-Star Game.

The defending NBA champion Lakers won all three games without Bryant before the break.

The next game he plays will be his 1,000th during the regular season and will make him the youngest player in NBA history to reach that milestone. That record is held by Boston’s Kevin Garnett.

The Lakers did get center Andrew Bynum back in the lineup after he missed two games with a bruised right hip.

[ffadicted]

Ben Affleck knows

[Smooth Criminal]

Ok let me go get my time machine and travel to the future when anyone has a chance of knowing.

brb goin to the future, anyone need lottery numbers?

Yes it's impossible that I could have been asking if there was an article stating whether he would play. I wish people weren't so foolish :bang

[Chieflion]

Just tune in to ESPN. They will tell you.

[picc84]

You didnt ask for an article fool, you asked if anyone "knows definitively". Guess what? Nobody does. Now I need a time machine just to keep up with your backtracking. :lol

[cobbler]

Just tune in to ESPN. They will tell you.

...or you since you talk about him several times a day... everyday. :toast

[Chieflion]

Looks like I have a fan troll.

[The Gemini Method]

I say sit down for one more game since the Lakers will then be off until Tuesday when they go back to Memphis. That would give him about 2 weeks off the ankle and should be sufficient.

[TheMACHINE]

i say he sits down for the rest of the year cuz clearly the lakers are better without him. I mean come on...has the Lakers even achieved anything since Kobe has been on the team.

[The Gemini Method]

i say he sits down for the rest of the year cuz clearly the lakers are better without him. I mean come on...has the Lakers even achieved anything since Kobe has been on the team.

Besides get a thread dedicated to Kobe? Naw...nothing at all, Machine.

[Allanon]

Anybody know definitively?

Kobe said "right now, it doesn't look like it" in answer to whether or not he's playing the Celtics game.

[Mike D]

Kobe said he doubts he will be able to play against Boston. "Right now it's a no."

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