{"id":65284,"date":"2013-12-06T22:27:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T22:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=65284"},"modified":"2020-05-01T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:35:44","slug":"kobe-return-dec8-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/kobe-return-dec8-raptors\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant announces his return vs The Raptors this Sunday via a Facebook Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<br \/>\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?v=10152073550875419\" data-width=\"550\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?v=10152073550875419\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Kobe\">Kobe Bryant<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>39k likes, 11k shares and 2,300 comments in 1 hour. &nbsp;Those were the stats on the (pretty over dramatic) video Kobe Bryant released on Facebook 60 minutes ago announcing that he will be making his return this Sunday against the Raptors. &nbsp;By the time you read this, those numbers will probably be doubled.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be on NBA TV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/KOBE-RETURN1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-65291\" alt=\"KOBE-RETURN\" src=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/KOBE-RETURN1.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"282\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following is an interview with CNN about his return.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"ep\" width=\"416\" height=\"234\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&amp;profile=desktop&amp;context=embedwww&amp;videoId=sports\/2013\/12\/06\/unguarded-kobe-bryant-returns.cnn&amp;contentId=sports\/2013\/12\/06\/unguarded-kobe-bryant-returns.cnn\"><embed id=\"ep\" width=\"416\" height=\"234\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&amp;profile=desktop&amp;context=embedwww&amp;videoId=sports\/2013\/12\/06\/unguarded-kobe-bryant-returns.cnn&amp;contentId=sports\/2013\/12\/06\/unguarded-kobe-bryant-returns.cnn\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post by Kobe Bryant. 39k likes, 11k shares and 2,300 comments in 1 hour. &nbsp;Those were the stats&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,1512,74,23],"tags":[1921],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-65284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-blogs","category-nba-off-the-court","category-nba-videos","category-video","tag-kobe-bryant"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - 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