Kobe Bryant Says Bye to National Basketball Association with 60 Points in One Game

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A “partial service disruption” was reported around 7:45 p.m.as Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant played his final game and the Golden State Warriors sought to win their record-setting 73rd game. Bryant played his last game as a Laker and retired from basketball.Kobe signing autographs-We was all in line we was fans, you know, in the locker room-the fact that he threw my Adidas and didn’t sign my Adidas, I was a little disappointed in that.But then, in an extraordinary ending, he lifted the team on his shoulders one more time to lead the Lakers to an enthralling 101-96 triumph. “I get to go unwind and clear my head”.To score his 60, Bryant made 22 of 50 shots, including six of 21 from three-point range and 10 of 12 from the foul line. He checked out for good with 4.1 seconds left in just the Lakers’ 17th win.In late March, TNT analyst and Bryant’s former teammate Shaquille O’Neal asked Kobe to promise him one thing. “Sixty points wasn’t a surprise”.Kobe Bryant arrives on the court for his final game.While this is a humurous anecdote and shows how permanent white board marker can actually become if never erased, it also points to how long Bryant has been a fixture in the National Basketball Association.”There were a lot of points there where I got emotional”, Bryant said. “Being drafted and being traded to this organization and to spend 20 years here, I mean, you can’t write something better than this”.In classic Staples Center fashion, celebrities from all walks of life gathered to take in the final sendoff of the league’s third highest scorer in history. Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart.Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryantlooks for a teammate to pass to as Minnesota Timberwolves James Robinson looks on during Bryant’s first game at the Forum in Inglewood, California, Nov. 3, 1996.

Kobe Bryant Says Bye to National Basketball Association with 60 Points in One Game