One of the few story lines of the game was on how it would be Bryant and Dwyane Wade’s last matchup together.
Advertisement
I’m continuing my list of the greatest moments in 20 year career of Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant.
“He gotta go”, Wade said.
– Rodney Hood scored 30 points and the Jazz turned Kobe Bryant’s last visit to Utah into the worst loss of his career with a 123-75 victory on Monday night that matched the Lakers’ largest defeat in franchise history.
“It was just like old times”, Bryant said. “It says a lot about him, obviously; it’s what he has done all his life”. Bryant will continue postgame interviews through press conferences. He’s a generational talent that doesn’t get the kind of coverage of many of his contemporaries, but Wade’s been barking up Bryant’s tree for years.
“I feel they’re hearing it. They’re just not applying it”, Scott said. “That was the holy grail…. There’s a lot of spacing, so I feel like spacing attributes” to the improved shooting. It didn’t mean anything to him.
Kobe estimates that he’s probably given away about 30 pairs so far and that he has plenty of them and he’s not gonna run out.
Bryant did not have his best night, as he exited the game with only five points in 28 minutes and missed 10 of his 11 shot attempts on the night. Another fan likened Bryant to the Joker character in Batman, as played by Heath Ledger.
The former Lakers star, who is still recovering after being found unconscious at Nevada’s Love Ranch brothel at the end of past year, was given only days to live at the start of his month-long hospital stay.
Bryant took guarding Hood as a personal challenge. Wade will have a request as well for a memento from their final matchup, though he isn’t sure what yet.
“It’s tough, because everybody is different”, Bryant said. “I’m asking for something. Without him, there’s no way that we win any of those titles”.
If all else fails, he’ll still have that memory from 2003.
The Lakers, who lost at home to Washington on Sunday, fell to 15-59. The Wizards play at the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday. Will the Jazz cover or are they not worth a play for bettors?
There were 17,603 in 2012-13, 19,054 in 2013-14 and 19,300 last season. Cavs won’t lack motivation. Tomorrow they will turn to the Miami Heat in seek of their 16th win of the season. Portland still in West chase.
Advertisement
One of the downsides to Kobe Bryant’s final National Basketball Association season is the fact that the player who spent an entire career being an on-court killer has now become universally beloved. Russell finished with five points on 2-11 from the field and Randle had just two points on 1-5 from the field with just one board.
