Kobe Bryant participated in a half-court, four-on-four scrimmage Wednesday morning and then said Saturday night's game at Phoenix was "a definite possibility" for his return.

Kobe Bryant was fined on Tuesday for making comments about Lakers teammate Shaquille O"Neal to ESPN and sat out Los Angeles' 109-93 season opening win against the Dallas Mavericks.

However, the reason he sat out was because of soreness and stiffness in his surgicial repaired knee.

The fine is said to be for $2,500.

During the game, Bryant sat next to O"Neal on the bench and said they were cool.

"We talked this morning," he said. "He said what he said, I said what I said, we put it behind us and move on."

Pressed on what caused his outburst, Bryant said, "I'm past it. You guys are going to have to make your own assessments. You do that anyway. But, I'm past that. We're just going to move on and I have no comment to make on it?. I don't have anything to clarify. You guys read the statements. You guys can make your own decisions from that. Shaq and I are going to move on, be teammates and help this team to a fourth title."

"Kobe Bryant's first appearance in Colorado District Court on a felony sexual assault charge will be Nov. 13 at 9 a.m., the presiding judge said Tuesday."

The hearing was originally scheduled for November 10th but Eagle County Dist. Atty. Mark Hurlbert had a scheduling conflict and asked that the date be changed.

Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban is blaming the Lakers Organization for the feud between Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.

"If the president and the CEO of a corporation were speaking publicly like that, you'd have to say the board of directors was doing something wrong," Cuban said. "By the time a problem grows in an organization to where the most visible figures are venting publicly, it means ? people are not doing their jobs. The organization didn't deal with the problem. If you don't recognize it in advance, it's going to come to a head. If someone has to vent publicly, it's probably not the first place they looked to vent. You would think they first tried to deal with it internally."

Cuban also believes the feud is something bigger.

"There's something bigger there," he said. "They are smart guys and there is something they are not getting. And I don't think it's about shots and I don't think it's about whose team it is."

Ordered by Laker management to refrain from speaking to the media on Monday, the day after he bickered through reporters with Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant went public anyway. He told ESPN that if he left the Lakers next summer, it would be because of O'Neal's "childlike selfishness and jealousy," then listed what he believed were several other of O'Neal's character deficiencies.

Kobe Bryant is worried about his surgically repaired right knee and late Monday told team officials he might not play tonight.

The feud between Laker teammates Shaquille O"Neal and Kobe Bryant is back on again.

It began again on Friday when O"Neal suggested to Bryant that he modify his game to better suit his teammates until he got in shape. Bruany countered by telling O'Neal to worry about his own game and then O"Neal came back with this.....

"He's right," O'Neal said, "he doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball. As we start this new season, [stuff's] got to be done right. If you don't like it, then you can opt out next year. If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out?. I ain't going nowhere."

Bryant can opt-out of his contract this summer and is expected to do so but not neccessarily to leave the Lakers.

"This," one Laker player said, "is going to get ugly."

"Citing scheduling conflicts, prosecutors asked Friday that Kobe Bryant's Nov. 10 advisement be postponed for two weeks."

"The prosecutor in the Kobe Bryant sexual-assault case today demanded that the judge enforce a gag order on the participants, citing a leak attributed to a former judge who is a friend of one of the basketball star's attorneys."

Kobe Bryant said Monday afternoon that the legal events of recent months had not changed his mind, and that he would opt out of his Laker contract at the end of the season.