Kobe Bryant's Opener Doesn't Go As Planned

Kobe Bryant's first shot in nearly nine months didn't go as planned.

With about 10 minutes left in the first quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers' preseason opener Sunday against the Utah Jazz, the 37-year-old guard fired a contested 3-pointer from the left corner, and it hit the side of the backboard.

The rest of Bryant's brief outing wasn't much better, with the longtime Laker finishing with five points on 1-of-5 shooting in 12 minutes, all of them coming in the first quarter before a Lakers-heavy crowd at the Stan Sheriff Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Bryant's lone field goal was a contested 3-pointer from the right corner over Jazz swingman Gordon Hayward.

The Lakers would go on to lose 90-71.