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'There can’t be many things much more difficult or frustrating for a professional athlete than missing significant time to battle back from an injury, only to return and get injured again.
'There can’t be many things much more difficult or frustrating for a professional athlete than missing significant time to battle back from an injury, only to return and get injured again.
Derrick Rose suffered that fate unfortunately at the start
of the season, and now Kobe Bryant, fresh off of returning from his Achilles
injury, is out again. The tagged six-week recovery time that comes with the
fractured bone in Bryant’s knee would see him returning sometime right around
February’s All-Star Break, at the earliest.
The Lakers, currently tenth in the West at 13-14, are
fighting to stay in the playoff picture. An extended absence from Bryant,
coupled with all of the other injury issues the team is facing, may well sink
the season.
Bryant will do everything in his power and then some to get
back out on the hardwood as soon as possible to help keep his team on track, as
is his way. You know, pray
for the bear, and all that.
But, by that point the Lakers season may well be lost.