El Segundo, Calif. ? Kobe Bryant returned to practice Friday as if nothing were wrong, smiling for the cameras, posing for Los Angeles Lakers promotional spots and joking with the team’s staff.

But it wasn’t a typical preseason media day: Extra security was posted inside and outside the gym, and coach Phil Jackson described the horde of media as “a feeding frenzy.”

Thursday, Bryant attended a preliminary hearing in Colorado where a judge will decide whether there is enough probable cause to order him to trial on a sexual assault charge.

The hearing will resume Wednesday, a day after the Lakers play Phoenix in San Diego.

“I’m not really here to talk about hearings,” Bryant said. “Anybody got any questions about the season and my teammates, I’d be more than happy to answer those.”

Jackson lamented the amount of energy being expended on what he called “celebrity chasing that is really crazy.”

“It’s really insane,” he said. “We got to kind of shape it up a little bit in this country. People are dying in Baghdad and Iraq. Situations around the world are much more disastrous and dangerous, and the focus of the media to spend so much energy on this just throws me into a loop sometimes.”

A sheriff’s detective testified Thursday how Bryant allegedly attacked a 19-year-old woman at a resort hotel in Colorado.

Prosecutors asked the judge to close at least a portion of the preliminary hearing when it resumes next week. Prosecutors made the request in private after defense attorneys, during the hearing Thursday, questioned the sexual history of the woman who accused the NBA player of rape.