#58 - LA Lakers @ New Orleans - 5:00 - Kobe out again

crazy8ights · Post #1 » by **crazy8ights** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 5:54 pm

http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/20 ... in-injury/

After suiting up for 138 consecutive games, Kobe Bryant will miss his second in a row tonight, as the Lakers travel to New Orleans. Bryant is nursing a sore and inflamed left shin: “Kobe Bryant (shin) will miss his 2nd straight game tonight at New Orleans. Not a surprise that Kobe will miss tonight’s game; if it hurt him enough to miss 1 game, wasn’t minor enough to return in 2 days. Bright side to Kobe missing this game is that he’ll now have (at least) 5 days rest to his legs that were 3rd in NBA in minutes.”

mods can merge this with the game thread once its made.

Post #2 » by **TyCobb** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 6:02 pm

Rest him till the playoffs.

Father Time · Post #3 » by **Father Time** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 6:21 pm

TyCobb wrote:Rest him till the playoffs.

I say we rest him until like 2 games before the playoffs, so he won't be completely rusty (assuming he's not playing basketball while resting). kase klosed

rhp1990 · Post #4 » by **rhp1990** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 6:32 pm

keep resting him!!!

Draper · Post #5 » by **Draper** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 7:00 pm

Assuming NO will still be fully engaged in tank mode hopefully we can win this without Kobe.

Speedlot · Post #6 » by **Speedlot** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 7:09 pm

Interesting. This, probably keeps his ppg UP? I see what you're doing kobe.

Crooked-I · Post #7 » by **Crooked-I** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 7:39 pm

Speedlot wrote:Interesting. This, probably keeps his ppg UP? I see what you're doing kobe.

AlexBarrera1 · Post #8 » by **AlexBarrera1** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 7:56 pm

Jarrett Jack's out, which means he won't light us up for 25 as per usual

crazy8ights · Post #9 » by **crazy8ights** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 8:09 pm

AlexBarrera1 wrote:Jarrett Jack's out, which means he won't light us up for 25 as per usual

no worries plenty of other scrubs could go off

Imadogg · Post #10 » by **Imadogg** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 8:54 pm

AlexBarrera1 wrote:Jarrett Jack's out, which means he won't light us up for 25 as per usual

Greivis Vasquez has a career high of 20... time to shatter that

Post #11 » by **dockingsched** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 9:53 pm

this is now the game thread.

Post #12 » by **Danny Darko** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 10:17 pm

Ummm Is our starting SG for the night smoking a spleef in his twitter profile pic?:

https://twitter.com/#!/DevinEbanks3

Jetset · Post #13 » by **Jetset** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 10:21 pm

I think it's a straw, he has another pic where he's holding a straw in his mouth like that.

Even still this just further proves why we he needs to leave, he's a straw chewer.

Gek · Post #14 » by **Gek** » Mon Apr 9, 2012 10:30 pm

I would have been more okay with a joint than a straw. honestly.

AlexBarrera1 · Post #15 » by **AlexBarrera1** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:03 am

Carl Landry will go for 28/15, book it

EArl · Post #16 » by **EArl** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:03 am

Gek wrote:I would have been more okay with a joint than a straw. honestly.

AlexBarrera1 · Post #17 » by **AlexBarrera1** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:14 am

I get that Sessions is hurt a little bit, but 28 minutes in both of the past 2 games? Not a coincidence that both were losses.

Desiderium · Post #18 » by **Desiderium** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:15 am

we're gonna get our ass kicked

EArl · Post #19 » by **EArl** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:20 am

That hustle play dive by Ebanks will get him more minutes!
Bynum is playing like shi*t

AlexBarrera1 · Post #20 » by **AlexBarrera1** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:24 am

eablinksum wrote:That hustle play dive by Ebanks will get him more minutes!

Nope, everyone knows Brown only rewards terrible players with tons of minutes, just ask Steve!