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April 13, 2016
Kobe Bryant Scores 60 in Final NBA Game: Los Angeles Lakers coach Byron Scott said he has one simple plan for Kobe Bryant's final NBA game Wednesday night. "Like I told him: 'This is the last hurrah. Let's have some fun. Let's go out with a bang,'" Scott said after shootaround at the team's training facility hours before the Lakers face the Utah Jazz in the last game of Bryant's 20-season NBA career.
posted by rcade to basketball at 10:34 PM - 7 comments
Rachel Nichols "" @Rachel__Nichols
Just spoke to Shaq - he said "I challenged him to get 50 and the mother****er got 60"
posted by grum@work at 08:36 AM on April 14, 2016
You could not have written a more fitting last game for Kobe.
posted by Etrigan at 09:13 AM on April 14, 2016
That was fun. I didn't expect Kobe to add another game to the highlight reel. It was cool to see Staples filled with celebrities and the crowd going crazy like Showtime was back.
posted by rcade at 09:48 AM on April 14, 2016
I got home from the Celtics game last night just in time to watch enough of the Warriors game to make sure they would get the record. Then I turned to the Lakers vs Jazz. Kobe was having a pretty good game, but Lakers were trailing. I was hoping for a good performance followed by a Lakers win, but it seemed to be out of the question. Understand I had just watched Boston overcome a 26-point deficit to pull out a 10-point win, so I figured anything was possible. Then Kobe put it all on his shoulders and went off for what ranks as one of the best individual performances of his career. What a great way to go out! I was an acknowledged Kobe hater until a couple of years ago, but he changed my mind when he refused to quit in a game against Boston, when the rest of a bad Lakers team was going through the motions. He showed what greatness is all about.
posted by Howard_T at 12:53 PM on April 14, 2016
A lot of haters out there re: Flea's National Anthem, but I loved it. If you're gonna make everyone listen to that song before every American sporting event, at least make it interesting.
posted by sbacharach at 02:18 PM on April 14, 2016
Flea's anthem was weird, but I liked it. Rock and roll will never die.
posted by rcade at 05:43 PM on April 14, 2016
SIXTY?!
God damn.
He shot over 40%, his team won, and he was lights out in that fourth quarter.
It might have been an embarrassing final season for Kobe, but it was a hell of a final game.