For a night, Bryant was vintage Bryant again.<br />No second thoughts about retirement, though.<br />"Zero.<br />Not even an inkling," he said.<br />Bryant tied a season high with 31 points after missing a game with a sore right shoulder, and the Los Angeles Lakers rallied from a 21-point, first-half deficit to beat the short-handed Denver Nuggets 111-107 on Tuesday.<br />"I can still play a little bit," said Bryant, who was on the court for 32 minutes in the first game of a back-to-back.<br />"It was a great test for me tonight to see if I could still play both ends of the floor."<br />"He's still a guy that sees the floor better than everybody," coach Byron Scott said.<br />"He sees it in slow motion."
