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Kupchak expects a healthy Bryant to play one final season

The Orange County Register | May 22, 2015

Related Topics: Rotator cuff tear, Los Angeles Lakers, Achilles tendon, Mitch Kupchak, Sirius XM Holdings

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Kobe Bryant should be fully recovered next season, according to Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak, who reiterated he expects it to be Bryant's final season.

Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak has reiterated his belief that Kobe Bryant will call it a career after next season.

Bryant will enter his 20th season on the final year of a two-year, $48.5 million contract extension. He is coming off a third consecutive injury-shortened season after undergoing surgery to repair a right torn rotator cuff in January.

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