It's all D Antoni's fault. He wasn't playing him a ton of minutes, he was playing him ALL 48 minutes. Who cares if they made the playoffs like that? They would be an underdog anyways and with a banged up and overplayed Kobe they would have gotten run out of the building. Also, take last night Kobe was hurt 2 times, moderately, where he was hobbling and was never taken out, not for a minute or 2.
First Amare and now Kobe.