As if the Los Angeles Lakers needed any more bad news to start the 2013-14 NBA season—between Steve Nash's slow recovery, Shawne Williams' spot as the starting power forward and a brutal early schedule—now comes word that Kobe Bryant has stepped back from full weight-bearing training to run instead on an altered-gravity treadmill.
Don't call it a setback, though. The Lakers certainly won't. According to team spokesman John Black, via Dave McMenamin of ESPN Los Angeles, the decision to shift Bryant's rehab was his own, not that of the Lakers' training staff.
In truth, it doesn't really matter what the official term is for Kobe's latest status. The fact is, he still has a long way to go before he's ready to return from the torn Achilles that ended his 2012-13 season. There's no telling when Bryant will be back in action.
And that's fine.
It's all well and good that Kobe, the competitive maniac that he is, wants to do everything he can to cut down his recovery time and start playing basketball again. But there's no point in anyone rushing Bryant back or for Kobe to do so himself.
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