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Kobe Bryant grimaces after being injured during last night's Lakers game against the Golden State Warriors
LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant's 17th NBA season likely ended on an innocent move past a defender toward the hoop.
He felt a pop as he pushed off his left foot. The pain made him think somebody kicked him.
The Los Angeles Lakers are all but certain Bryant tore his Achilles tendon Friday night on that ordinary step in his extraordinary career.
"I made a move that I've made a million times, and it just popped," he said solemnly, leaning on crutches in the Lakers' locker room after a 118-116 win over Golden State.
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Kobe Bryant gets injured while driving against the Warriors' Harrison Barnes.
The fourth-leading scorer in NBA history probably will miss the postseason for just the second time, even if Los Angeles hangs on to the eighth spot in the Western Conference playoff race without him. The 34-year-old who has spent half his life in a Lakers uniform realizes everybody will wonder if his career will ever be the same.
Moments after he went down, Bryant vowed to get back up.
"I know I can do this," said Bryant, who's averaging 27.3 points, 5.6 rebounds and 6.0 assists. "It's fueling me. It's fueling me. I can feel it already."
Still wearing his gold game uniform, Bryant appeared to fight back tears while he thought about the upcoming final days of the Lakers' tumultuous season. After a terrible start and numerous missteps along the way, Los Angeles (42-37) is one game ahead of the Utah Jazz, who hold the tiebreaker, for the final playoff spot in the West with two games to play.
Bryant called it the most disappointing injury of his career "by far."
"We worked so hard to put ourselves in position and control our fate," he said. "I certainly have done a lot of work to prepare myself. It's just bad luck."
Bryant, who scored 34 points despite hyperextending his left knee early in the second half, hit two free throws after apparently tearing his tendon with 3:08 to play, tying the game before hobbling to the locker room.
His teammates then rallied past the wilting Warriors, with Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard getting big baskets down the stretch before Steve Blake's go-ahead free throws in the final minutes.
The win kept the Lakers in control of their playoff destiny, still in the running for the franchise's 16th postseason trip during Bryant's career, they'll probably have to do it without the five-time NBA champion in uniform, assuming an MRI on Saturday confirms the Lakers' diagnosis of a torn tendon.
"I'm going to be there still," Bryant said. "I can't be with them out there on the floor, but I can use my intellect to try to break down film and help them see things they might not see."
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