Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant announced Friday on Facebook that he will make his season debut Sunday against the Toronto Raptors. Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni is excited about Bryant's return Cheap Brent Seabrook Jersey , but hopes his players aren't so excited that they are playing in awe of him.
"A lot of times they will stand around and watch him," D'Antoni said at the Lakers' shootaround Friday for a game against the Sacramento Kings. "We have been playing a certain way so we have to guard against that."
The Lakers were expected to struggle without Bryant, but have conjured a surprising 9-9 record. Bryant, 35, averaged 27.3 points per game last season before suffering a season-ending Achilles tendon injury on April 12 against the Golden State Warriors. The Lakers have used Steve Blake and Jodie Meeks at shooting guard in Bryant's absence.
The Lakers currently have practice scheduled for Saturday in Los Angeles. D'Antoni doesn't sound like he will be holding Bryant back upon return.
"What he brings mostly is one of the best players in the game and down in the fourth quarter you're not searching what you're doing, just his overall ability to be able to play well Cheap Artemi Panarin Jersey ," D'Antoni said. "He will get guys to load up on him. He's carrying the wagon, let's everybody jump on it …."
Meanwhile, injured Lakers guard Steve Nash took more of a wait-and-see approach.
"It should be a slow progression," said Nash, who has been out since Nov. 10 with a nerve irritation in his back. "The most important thing is he hasn't had any setbacks."
Nash also took a measured approach on how good the Lakers can be once they're fully healthy.
"A lot of that depends on health. It also depends on the chemistry we can find," Nash said. "As we learned last year that it's not something you can make your own equation for and say one plus one equals two and we should be this. It's something that takes time and there is a lot of variables."
Nash is pleased to have no setbacks while practicing recently Cheap Corey Crawford Jersey , but said he was uncertain when he'd return to play in games. He had hoped to return tonight against the Kings.
"The idea is not rush back and have the whole season," Nash said. "That will give me a chance to have some stability and play the better part of the rest of the season."
Chinese-owned Motorola Mobility unveiled on Monday three new handsets in China, signifying an ambitious comeback in the world's largest smartphone market.
Motorola Mobility, which is owned by the world's PC leader Lenovo, rolled out three new but familiar-looking Android handsets - Moto X, Moto X Pro Cheap Jonathan Toews Jersey , and Moto G - at a press conference held in Beijing on Monday.
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Lenovo clearly knew that Motorola missed out on the smartphone bandwagon years ago and that Motorola made a wrong decision in leaving China and other emerging markets, Liu Jun, executive vice president of Lenovo, said at the launch event.
He expected that Moto can win the market back by focusing "on innovation and user experience."
In order to woo Chinese consumers Cheap Patrick Kane Jersey , Motorola will launch an online customized design studio during the first half of the year in the Chinese mainland, the first Asian market to have such services, according to Rick Osterloh, COO of Motorola.
The three new Moto models seem to be what Lenovo are hoping to bank on to steal some of the limelight away from domestic rivals like Xiaomi Inc and Huawei Technologies Co, especially in the mid- and high-end segments.
While the Lenovo phone brand will continue targeting domestic mid- and low-end consumers, the Motorola brand aims to attract the mid- and high-end end users Cheap Chicago Blackhawks Hats , said Zhang Yi, CEO of Guangzhou-based iiMedia Research, implying he has confidence in Motorola under the ownership of Lenovo.
"Lenovo's mature distribution channels in its home market will make it easier for Motorola to earn itself a position in the pantheon of smartphone greats," Zhang told the Global Times Monday.
In addition, the revitalized Motorola may receive a warm market reception in China where some people still have nostalgia for the former US big-name phone veteran, said Zhang.
Wang Yanhui Cheap Chicago Blackhawks Hoodies , head of Shanghai-based Mobile China Alliances, appears less optimistic than Zhang.
Wang is concerned about Motorola's prospects in the fiercely competitive mainland market, where domestic rivals are actively furthering their own presence in the more profitable mid- and high-end phone segments to make up for having sacrificed profits by previously focusing on the low-cost segment to grab market share.
Xiaomi revealed in a regulatory filing of domestic appliance manufacturer Midea Group, which entered into a tie-up with the phone maker in mid-December 2014, that its 2013 operating profit margin was 1.8 percent. By comparison, Samsung's margin reportedly stood at 18.7 percent in 2013.
Huawei appears to have already made a dent in the mid- and high-end segments with its Ascend Mate series.
Rising star Xiaomi Cheap Chicago Blackhawks Shirts , famous for its low-budget phones, also squeezed into the higher-level battlefields via its newly released flagship Mi Note, which the company claimed to be a phone that can stand comparison with Apple's devices.
"Motorola's new gadgets have no distinctive and appealing edges over other comparable phones in the market," Wang told the Global Times Monday.
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