NBA Rumors: Why Kobe Bryant Benefits from Extended NBA Lockout

Kobe Bryant is easily one of the toughest players in the Association. He is the NBA’s iron man, as he plays year in and year out with a myriad of injuries—fingers to knees to ankles and even a boo-boo to the back of his head after sliding into one of the chairs courtside at the Staples Center.

Today, we wake up from a difficult night of sleep as the current lockout haunts our every thought. We have nightmares of the looming possibility of missing the entire 2011 season.

Yet Kobe sleeps tight as he now recuperates from offseason knee surgery in Germany.

According to Bleacher Report - Los Angeles Lakers
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