The 40-year-old wrote: “Tonight will be full of emotions, happy ones & and sad ones but we celebrate the career of one of the game’s greatest players and a true LAKER …”
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Bryant, 37, scored 81 points in one game against the Toronto Raptors in 2006 to become the NBA’s number two top scorer.
There might not be anybody in the world (outside of Los Angeles) who loved Kobe Bryant’s 60-point, 50-shot night against the Utah Jazz on Wednesday more than Oklahoma City Thunder star Russell Westbrook.
ILoveMakonnen also paid tribute to the five-time National Basketball Association champion with a new song, “Black Mamba Freestyle”. Winning meant more to him than putting on a likable front for fans.
He said: “I can’t believe how fast 20 years went by, this is insane”.
It’s his first 50-point game since February 2009.
Jack Nicholson, Jay Z, Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Adam Levine, Frank Robinson, Dave Winfield, and Magic Johnson, Kobe’s childhood hero were at the Staples centre, Los Angeles to watch the athlete play his last game. Add them up and there were rings for every finger on one hand, something he didn’t mind pointing out to one big former teammate he ran out of town before they could win even more titles together.
“I think this has been an incredible day for sports fans, basketball fans in particular”, Bryant said as he wore his Lakers’ uniform about an hour after the game, not quite willing to take it off for the final time.
Kobe Bryant goes up for a shot in the fourth quarter.
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Kobe Bryant is surrounded by cameramen after the game. Bryant and the Lakers bested Steph Curry and the record-setting Warriors 134,000 to 111,000.
