Raptors’ Carroll out with knee contusion

He got another standing O when he left the game for good with 24.6 seconds left, and he saluted the crowd with a pat on the chest and a wave.

In the Lakers’ 102-93 loss to the Toronto Raptors on Monday at Air Canada Centre, Bryant posted 21 points on 8-of-16 shooting, eight rebounds and four assists in 32 minutes.

The Lakers drop to 3-17, having lost the last nine out of 10 games.

Drummond had his 12th game of at least 15 points and 15 rebounds. With that in mind, the 28-year-old has scored in double figures 13 times and has notched three straight games with double-digit total with 21 points in the Lakers’ 111-91 loss on Sunday to the Detroit Pistons.

Bryant’s game against Raptors on January 22, 2006 is likely his most memorable regular season game of his career.

“We have great fans”, he said.

“Hopefully I’ve had a great impact and been able to inspire kids to play the game of basketball, find the beauty in it that I found when I was a kid”, he said.

Bob Garcia is a sports journalist from Southern California.

“Towards the end of that trip, obviously, we were physically exhausted, but we were mentally exhausted, as well, and probably thought, ‘Hey, we can go out there and get this win, ‘ ” Tolliver said. “I think he’s going to be a really, really, really good player”, Kupchak said in the interview.

“It’s a little bit of everything to see him walking away from the game, especially someone I idolized and grew up watching”, said DeRozan, raised in the Los Angeles area. He was averaging just 12.2 points and 5.1 boards per contest, and surprisingly, hasn’t had the impact on the defense that was expected of him.

On Monday, Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak granted a phone interview to the LA Times where he asked for his portion of the blame, shared frustrations with the Lakers sitting at the bottom of the Western Conference and admitted that the first quarter of the season had been underwhelming from a development and talent assessment standpoint. But Young did not impress in seven minutes of play, recording zero points on 0 for 3 shooting and was ejected early in the fourth quarter for shoving Anthony Tolliver after a not-so-hard foul that Tolliver committed on Young. “But we’ve got to give them more than that”, Kupchak said. “In terms of comfort or peace of mind, I am completely fine”. Some experts think that they are a bad team. That guy gets plenty of minutes.

“We want you to come home, to wear our colours, to represent our city, just as your father did before you”.

Toronto Raptors forward DeMarre Carroll is out indefinitely with a right knee contusion that he’s been dealing with for the past few weeks. Raptors F Lucas Nogueira (sprained left ankle) also did not play Monday.