Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant's offseason featured a trip to Germany for PRP (platelet-rich plasma) therapy treatments on his right knee and left ankle, and is currently playing with a torn lunotriquetral ligament in his right wrist. These factors, plus his age (33) and the compressed season's rigorous pace, provide head coach Mike Brown all the reason in the world to reduce the superstar guard's minutes. But the opposite has taken place so far. Bryant is averaging 37.7 minutes per game, nearly four more than last season. His coach would like to see that change. "I hope so," said Brown on Tuesday at practice when asked about the possibility. "I was shooting for 35 minutes (against the Dallas Mavericks on Monday), but there are gonna be times, especially in games like that, that I think we'll have a chance to win, where that 35 may go to 36, 37 and hopefully no more than that. I wanted to keep it at 35, but I didn't do a good job with it. Read more: http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/...ch-mike-brown-says-reduce-kobe-bryant-minutes "But I do want to get it down, because he's played a ton of minutes too early."
