{"id":20661,"date":"2013-04-15T15:35:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20661"},"modified":"2013-04-15T15:35:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:35:55","slug":"kobe-bryants-injury-will-need-6-9-months-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20661","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant\u2019s Injury Will Need 6-9 Months Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif.\u2014<strong>Kobe Bryant<\/strong> had surgery Saturday on his torn Achilles tendon, ending his season with two games left in the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 playoff chase.<\/p>\n<p>Lakers trainer <strong>Gary Vitti<\/strong> thinks <strong>Bryant<\/strong> will need six to nine months for recovery from the most serious injury of his 17-year NBA career. Given <strong>Bryant\u2019s<\/strong> history of swift recovery from countless minor injuries, <strong>Vitti <\/strong>and Lakers general manager <strong>Mitch Kupchak<\/strong> both believe the 34-year-old guard could be back for their season opener in the fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryant <\/strong>fought back tears in the locker room moments after learning his tendon was torn, and he wrote a lengthy Facebook post about his injury early Saturday morning, saying his \u201cfrustration is unbearable.\u201d \u201cWhy the hell did this happen ?!?\u201d <strong>Bryant<\/strong> wrote. \u201cMakes no damn sense. Now I\u2019m supposed to come back from this and be the same player Or better at 35?!? How in the world am I supposed to do that??&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cMaybe this is how my book ends. Maybe Father Time has defeated me&#8230;Then again maybe not!\u201d \u201cOne day, the beginning of a new career journey will commence. Today is NOT that day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif.\u2014Kobe Bryant had surgery Saturday on his torn Achilles tendon, ending his season with two games left in the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 playoff chase. Lakers trainer Gary Vitti thinks Bryant will need six to nine months for recovery from the most serious injury of his 17-year NBA career. Given Bryant\u2019s history of swift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}