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04-14-2016, 04:39 PM
Hollywood night: Kobe Bryant hits for 60 in surreal final NBA game
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LOS ANGELES — Of course Kobe Bryant (http://mashable.com/2015/01/16/kobe-lebron/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) scored an astonishing 60 points in his final NBA game. And of course he took 50 shots to do it
The Lakers even won on Wednesday. *
But that was a foot**te. This occasion was less a basketball game than a piece of basketball theater.*
SEE ALSO: My high school teammate, Kobe Bryant (http://mashable.com/2015/11/29/kobe-bryant-high-school-teammates/)
An icon's retirement supersedes a game between two playoff-ineligible teams. That rule is doubly true when the icon is Bryant, who's still with the Los Angeles Lakers — the only NBA (http://mashable.com/category/nba/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) team he's played for since entering the league out of high school in 1996. It's also the team he led to five titles.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/14/kobe-bryant-last-game/)
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LOS ANGELES — Of course Kobe Bryant (http://mashable.com/2015/01/16/kobe-lebron/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) scored an astonishing 60 points in his final NBA game. And of course he took 50 shots to do it
The Lakers even won on Wednesday. *
But that was a foot**te. This occasion was less a basketball game than a piece of basketball theater.*
SEE ALSO: My high school teammate, Kobe Bryant (http://mashable.com/2015/11/29/kobe-bryant-high-school-teammates/)
An icon's retirement supersedes a game between two playoff-ineligible teams. That rule is doubly true when the icon is Bryant, who's still with the Los Angeles Lakers — the only NBA (http://mashable.com/category/nba/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) team he's played for since entering the league out of high school in 1996. It's also the team he led to five titles.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/14/kobe-bryant-last-game/)
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