Why did Kobe play 35 minutes tonight?

[Akrazotile]

I thought the team was tryin to keep the old man's minutes down??

I'm not sayin it was the wrong decision, he was obviously hot. He absolutely EXPLODED for 7/20 shooting and actually MADE one of his five three-pointers. So clearly he was in his old form. Maybe the team decided they wanted to try and get this win and ride Kobe's white-hot shooting night?

Can't blame em, but like I said I'm just surprised because I thought he was "so injured still from 2 years ago" and stuff. But I mean either way it's all good.

[Marchesk]

They're paying him a lot of money to not play him. What does it matter at this point? The team sucks either way.

[JT123]

At least he had more points than shot attempts tonight...barely.
Was absolute garbage in the 4th though