Kobe Bryant’s Legendary Final Game

Kobe Bryant’s final game was a legendary performance that will be shared perennially.

Kobe Bryant entered this campaign knowing that it was going to be his last.

It was November 29, 2015, a day after the season opener, when he published a poem in the Players’ Tribune about his journey in basketball and it coming to an end.

“You gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream
And I’ll always love you for it.
But I can’t love you obsessively for much longer.
This season is all I have left to give.
My heart can take the pounding
My mind can handle the grind
But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye.

And that’s OK.
I’m ready to let you go.
I want you to know now
So we both can savor every moment we have left together.
The good and the bad.
We have given each other
All that we have.”

Kobe made the 2015-16 season his farewell tour, where he traded jerseys with top opponents and took extra time to greet and salute fans.

In addition to that, he tried to play his best every game as well as –and this is more important because he always plays his heart out- trying to play every game.

He played a total of 66 games and put up some great performances where he dropped 30-plus points.

However, there was only one game this season that could be classified as masterful and it was his final one.

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