Kobe: "I’m barely standing up. My back & my legs, it’s killing me." He added, "I'm not looking forward to walking to the car. Seriously."
— Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) November 16, 2015 Playing basketball makes Kobe Bryant so sore he’s ‘barely standing up’
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.
Father Time catches us all in the cool, steely grip of reality. It’s a horrible realization to have and we got this reminder TWICE on Sunday with Peyton Manning and now Kobe Bryant. The Lakers guard is basically your grandpa now. He struggles to stand up, his back is hurting him and getting into the car is a pain.
Full credit to Kobe though: He’s fighting like hell to help the Lakers, even when everything is going wrong.
“We hadn’t won one at home,” Bryant said. “To lose another one at home would be disastrous.”
Bryant said he was mildly concerned about playing too many minutes, given his injury history.
“But we talked about it ... we had to push through,” Bryant said. “We had to get this one done and take a day tomorrow.”
There’s this poetic element to the old prize fighter throwing himself in the ring and taking punch after punch, but these stories rarely have happy endings.
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