Many sports fans love to see Kobe dunking so it’s rather interesting why Byron Scott wants Kobe to stop dunking.
Does anyone control Kobe? Probably not but his coach, Byron Scott may have some control on this. Scott doesn’t want Kobe to dunk anymore.
“I don’t want him to dunk no more,” Lakers coach Byron Scott, said laughing. “I’ll tell him to save it for Game 82. Then he can dunk again.”
Ultimately, he wants Scott to stick around for much longer. In other words, make it to the end of the season.
“He’s OK,” Scott said following Saturday’s practice at the University of Denver. “No improvement. But no worse than the initial prognosis that it’s soreness.”
Bryant contended on Saturday that he felt soreness in his shoulder before the dunk, though it sounded like Scott hopes his star player exercises more caution.
“When the adrenaline is flowing, it’s real hard to tell a guy ‘Don’t dunk,’” Scott said. “That might have been his last one. But he knows himself more than anybody.”
Kobe’s age is starting to show on the court. Scott is also just trying to look out for him.