Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryant watches free throws in the third quarter against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 23, 2007. The Lakers defeated the Knicks 95-90. (UPI Photo/John Angelillo) . | License Photo
Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryant smiles in the fourth quarter against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 23, 2007. The Lakers defeated the Knicks 95-90. (UPI Photo/John Angelillo) . | License Photo
Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryant smiles in the fourth quarter against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 23, 2007. The Lakers defeated the Knicks 95-90. (UPI Photo/John Angelillo) . | License Photo
Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson (R) talks with Kobe Bryant before putting him back into the game during the fourth quarter in Chicago on December 18, 2007. The Lakers won 103-91. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey) | License Photo
Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryant (24) smiles on the bench against the New York Knicks in the in the second quarter at Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 23, 2007. (UPI Photo/John Angelillo) . | License Photo
Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryant (24) drives past New York Knicks Jamal Crawford in the second quarter at Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 23, 2007. (UPI Photo/John Angelillo) . | License Photo
Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant sits on the bench before the start of a game against the Chicago Bulls in Chicago on December 18, 2007. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey) | License Photo
Rocky, the Denver Nuggets mascot, towers over Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant just before tipoff at the Pepsi Center in Denver on December 5, 2007. The Lakers beat the Nuggets 111-107. (UPI Photo/Gary C. Caskey) | License Photo
Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant attends media day at the team's basketball training facility in El Segundo, California on October 1, 2007. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen). | License Photo
Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant attends media day at the team's basketball training facility in El Segundo, California on October 1, 2007. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen). | License Photo
Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers moments after receiving his gold medal following Team USA's 118-81 tournament clinching victory over Argentina in the final basketball game of the FIBA Americas Championship at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 2, 2007. (UPI Photo/Daniel Gluskoter). | License Photo
Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers hands the championship trophy to Tayshuan Prince of the Detroit Pistons following Team USA's 118-81 gold medal clinching victory over Argentina in the final basketball game of the FIBA Americas Championship at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 2, 2007. Photo by Daniel Gluskoter/UPI | License Photo
