National Basketball Association Rumor: Kobe Bryant Retiring Soon?

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The Los Angeles Clippers suffered one demoralizing loss and let the hangover slip into the next game as well. The Clippers went 8 for 24 and committed five turnovers during the pivotal fourth quarter. Redick returned Friday after missing three straight with a back injury, though he finished 3 of 12 from the field for a season-low seven points. Pablo Prigioni is questionable with an illness. Blake Griffin left momentarily with a sore knee but returned a quarter later.

The goods news is that he did play in Los Angeles’ Friday game against the Toronto Raptors. Rivers said the struggles on the glass are becoming a bothersome trend the Clippers need to figure out. “You have to be better down the stretch and execute”. They are just 6-6 on the season… Toronto’s 79.9 percent mark from the line is the third best in the league, and the Clippers are allowing the sixth most made free throws per game in the National Basketball Association. The Patterson-Johnson pairing has potential, like it did at the forward spots a year ago, because it gives Casey the option of inverting the offense and avoiding having Johnson on the perimeter (tonight’s corner three notwithstanding). After so many years of Kobe, fans might not want to see a shooting guard who shots at a high volume. “I just have to break that habit”. “But it seems like guys are playing hard”. The Raptors squandered a fourth-quarter lead in Sacramento to start the trip, battled the Golden State Warriors into the final minute in a 115-110 loss on Tuesday and clinched a losing trip when they surrendered 34 fourth-quarter points in a 93-89 setback at Utah on Wednesday.

Five players scored in double digits for the defending Atlantic Division champions, off to an 8-6 start that began with five straight wins.

Jamal Crawford – “We have to keep plugging away at it. We really do”. “I’ve always been in the camp that this will be it for Kobe – if he’s not going to chase a ring with another team, why would he put himself through all this physically to be part of a multi-year rebuilding process he will not be on the court to see the rewards from?”

Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan has a player option at the end of this season that he’s likely to decline.

Ariza attempted a game-tying 3 with 20 seconds remaining, but it rimmed out and the Knicks rebounded.

Houston rested Dwight Howard, but his absence was barely noticed given the strong play from second-year center Clint Capela, who had the best game of his young career with career highs in points (16) and rebounds (14).