Kobe Bryant is retiring at the end of the 2015-16 National Basketball Association season and the Los Angeles Lakers will say goodbye to one of the greatest players to ever suit up in the purple and gold. User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement.
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This is Kobe Bryant’s a year ago and he is going to go out with the Lakers missing the playoffs.
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Kobe Bryant has fully embraced his farewell tour. The Oklahoma City Thunder are shooting 36.1 percent from beyond the arc and 79 percent from the free throw line.
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The Broncos didn’t even get back in Pittsburgh territory in the second half until there was about three minutes left in the game. Head coach Mike Tomlin said after the game that the fundamental adjustment was that the team “stopped kicking (their) own butt”.
Durant led all scorers with 22 points despite not playing in the fourth quarter.
Bryant was held out of the game, which turned into just the sixth 40-point loss in franchise history, due to soreness in his right shoulder. “I just hope he doesn’t ask for his autograph”, Scott said of Brown guarding Thunder F Kevin Durant.
“I’ve been very fortunate to play in so many All-Star games”, Bryant said. Players, like D’Angelo Russell, wanting to play a certain way, but a head coach and maybe a front office doing its best to sustain a losing framework and keep this about being Bryant’s retirement tour, as if to blur the tanking from sight.
“They (the Rockets) have got a bunch of players over there that like to compete”, said Bryant, who had Lakers fans roaring and on their feet after he drove the lane for a dunk – his first of the season – over forward Clint Capela in the third quarter. However, the 20-year professional made it clear that his body would not permit him to play another season anywhere.
Bryant will let the shoulder rest and doesn’t plan on seeing a doctor. It was Bryant’s first dunk of the season, and the No. 2 overall pick sprinted up and down the baseline in celebration, which landed him a technical foul.
“They are pretty much a good team”, Los Angeles swingman Nick Young said.
“But it’s not going to happen”, Bryant said Monday in an NBA-sanctioned conference call that included 124 reporters from 24 different countries and territories.
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Each team was playing its second game in as many days, but while the Knicks were coming off a straightforward win over the hapless Philadelphia 76ers, the Bulls lost in quadruple-overtime to the Detroit Pistons on Friday night and didn’t even get to their NY hotel until almost 5 am, coach Fred Hoiberg said. “That’s my way of letting you know that I’m completely fine with whatever role I have at All-Star weekend”.
