“[But] I can get to them”, Bryant said following a 111-107 win over the Denver Nuggets last Tuesday, according to ESPN.
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“It’s been a wonderful experience, and I’m looking forward to playing this last one”, he said.
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“I didn’t do anything”, he said. “I had the angle to do it. But I didn’t want to push my little body too much”.
His offensive numbers were almost overshadowed by his defense. At the end of NBA’s 70th season, the 37-year-old shooting guard, who is regarded as one of the best all-round players basketball has ever seen, will be retiring.
“As soon as they fell for it they were both like, ‘Damn!'” “It felt good to be able to do that”.
In the losing end, Kobe Bryant did not feature in the match so Lou Williams picked up the scoring with 20 points, while Jordan Clarkson added 15 in the defeat.
Bryant, who will retire after the season, received a warm reception from the Pepsi Center crowd and tried to give the fans a show early in his penultimate visit to Denver.
Kobe’s recent stretch is a stark contrast from the guy who was playing and moving as if he was already retired in the first 17 games of the season.
Everyone kind of expected Kobe Bryant to take the Lakers’ disastrous season worse than he has. But then Bryant started to heat up a bit, smiling ear to ear, as he went back and forth with his rival/friend Kevin Durant. “It felt great to have that appreciation”.
Bryant missed Saturday’s game with a sore shoulder, but he tried to make up for it Wednesday, scoring 17 of his points in the first half.
“He’s still Kobe Bryant”, Nuggets guard Jameer Nelson said. Scott said he wanted his team to get used to the altitude instead of returning home.
In the victory, Enes Kanter had 19 points and 14 rebounds for the Thunder, while star duo Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook combined for 35.
The throwback two-way performance led reporters to ask Kobe after the game: What does he relish more, his impact on offense or defense? “We’ve still got time to do what we need to do, and sneak into one of these spots'”. He had two in the second half after Bryant picked him up.
Los Angeles came into that game with a 3-19 record and actually was 7 ½ games out of the No. 8 spot in the Western Conference playoff race.
He pump-faked in the second quarter, got Westbrook to bite and converted a three-point play after hitting from the left side as Westbrook made contact.
The Lakers were considered championship contenders entering 2012-13, but coach Mike Brown chose to run the Princeton offense for some reason, the team decided not to re-hire Phil Jackson as coach for some reason after Brown was let go, and Bryant made a decision to assert his unconventional on and off-court leadership skills on new teammates Steve Nash and Dwight Howard for, well, Kobe Reasons.
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After his off-balance 16-footer rolled in with 32.2 seconds left, Nuggets forward Darrell Arthur could only smile ruefully after going to the bench for the a timeout.
