Kobe Bryant’s Rehab Progress Keeps LA Lakers’ Postseason Dreams Alive

August 13th, 2013 by Eric Guy Leave a reply »

The Los Angeles Lakers’ success next season depends upon whether or not Kobe Bryant will be able to lead them into battle on the nightly basis.

Fortunately for them, he could be ready to do so pretty soon.

At the 8:30 mark of a video shot during a promotional tour in the Philippines, Bryant expressed that his Achilles tendon is healing well:



This is not the first time he has stated that the rehab process is going along well. While traveling in Shenzhen, China, Bryant said that he and his medical team have “shattered” the normal timetable for recovery, per NBA.com’s Jonathan Hartzell:

The normal timetable for recovery from an Achilles, we’ve shattered that. Three-and-a-half months I can already walk just fine, I’m lifting weights with the Achilles just fine and that’s different. So we don’t know what that timetable is going to be. It’s kind of new territory for us all.

Certainly, hearing Kobe repeatedly say that he is ahead of schedule has to be music to Lakers fans’ ears, for in order to crack the top eight of the Wester ...

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