“I think the media has done a great job of building Kobe as who he is today”, he said. Bryant will have his last season with the Lakers this year before retiring. You did say he was the 93rd-best player in the league, you did have the Lakers as the worst team in the West, but it seems like everybody is happy that he’s going out like this.
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“[Jordan] is actually one of the first people that I told over the summer”, Bryant told ESPN after he made his announcement official to the world on Sunday. Turns out, if you’re in the Philadelphia area and want to see the Lakers legend and local product play one last time, it’s going to cost you. Bryant has scored 32,683 points during a 20-year career with the LA Lakers to rank third on the NBA’s all-time list. Bryant also won two Olympic gold medals. I’m talking about back in the USC days, but mostly just listen to him talk.
But Bryant’s departure will allow the Lakers to finish straddling the past and the future, with young prospects Julius Randle, D’Angelo Russell and Jordan Clarkson taking on leading roles rather than deferring to their superstar teammate.
“I never hear about the Finals MVPs, the accolades”.
“Hell yeah I’m sensitive about everything involving it”, he said.
“From the moment I started rolling my dad’s tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots in the Great Western Forum, I knew one thing was real: I fell in love with you”. “I am glad he found peace, I don’t know if we will see another like him”.
IN star forward Paul George said the 37-year-old Bryant will always be an inspiration to him.
Crawford said he was shocked when Bryant announced that this will be his final season and said it has been an honor to play alongside the 17-time All-Star. Bryant’s dad played four seasons with the Sixers, but he declared he grew up rooting for the Lakers. “Not only for us two being competitors, wanting to go against each other in the Finals, but also for the fans”.
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“The first play of the game he ran through the chest of Pau Gasol and got a flagrant”. “You can put a team around a guy to help a guy, especially late in his career”. But maybe the strongest part of Kobe’s legacy is how he adjusted his game as his physical abilities changed, much the way Michael Jordan had before him.
