LOS ANGELES - At some point, every team catches the injury bug. Two games after Kobe Bryant slithered around Ray Allen and buried the Celtics Jan. 31 with one of those otherworldly game-winners that have almost become his Zorro-like signature, he looked less like a superhero and more like a human being with a bad ankle. (Full article: 776 words)

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