{"id":39,"date":"2013-10-26T06:47:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T10:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/?p=39"},"modified":"2013-11-07T21:22:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T02:22:45","slug":"lakers-kobe-bryant-to-miss-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/2013\/10\/26\/lakers-kobe-bryant-to-miss-season-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers: Kobe Bryant to miss season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the Los Angeles Lakers take the court on Tuesday for their season opener they will do so without Kobe Bryant. While no one has put a timetable on the return of the 35-year-old it will not be Tuesday against the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n

When asked if Bryant would play Lakers head coach Mike D’Antoni responded “No,” and added “My God, I know he’s Superman, but my God. He hasn’t run yet.”<\/p>\n

Thus far Bryant has not come close to practicing with the Lakers. His basketball activity has been limited to spot shooting during training camp.<\/p>\n

One possible lineup for opening night for the Lakers is a Steve Blake, Steve Nash, Nick Young, Shawne Williams and Pau Gasol. That lineup took to the court in the Lakers final preseason games against Utah.<\/p>\n

“He’s making progress and he’ll be back as soon as he can,” D’Antoni said, via ESPN<\/a>. “No use worrying about it. You only worry about it when people don’t work hard or are not doing what they’re supposed to be doing. That’s not a problem.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the Los Angeles Lakers take the court on Tuesday for their season opener they will do so without Kobe Bryant. While no one has put a timetable on the return of the 35-year-old it will not be Tuesday against the Los Angeles Clippers. When asked if Bryant would play Lakers head coach Mike D’Antoni […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,3],"tags":[12,13,14,5],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-39","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-injuries","8":"category-nba-news","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-kobe-bryant","11":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","12":"tag-nba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}