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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Never was a Kobe fan but looking back he will be remembered as one of the greats.
Guy was a beast in his prime. Not quite Jordan offensively but pretty damn good.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Still sucked for the past three years and retired too late. Was the number one reason why the Lakers been trash recently. Even Tony Delk scored 50+. Good riddance, finally.

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Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

only took 50 shots too , very efficient

Uncharacteristically selfish performance. Usually he's not one to look out for himself on the court.

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Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Jordan would have scored 80.

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His teammates did not want the ball. Sometimes...it looked like they ran away from a Kobe's ball handling. It was his night. It wasn't so much him being selfish as the Lakers forcing him to take every shot...making sure he goes out with a memorable game. It was 'fun.' The type of fun I think the ASG tries to deliver and fails with each season.

The fact that he ended up leading them to the win (albeit with some referee assistance) ... pretty cool.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

I'm sure it was and I admit it's a nice story, but I'm just hating on him. I think he's quit on his team before and openly chased individual accolades over team success in the mid-2000s.

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Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Storybook ending.

Onetime great player. Been horrible for two years while collecting $48M. Team is awful. Last place in the western conference. Last game of his career after a season of phoning it in and collecting stupid retirement gifts on his final "tour" of the league. Gets a tough match-up against a non-playoff team with nothing to play for. Decides passing is not something he wants to do in his last game and puts up 60 on 50 shots in a win (provided by the NBA).

Magical.

This is a game that I believe you have to watch. At the very least watch the 2nd half or the final 7 mins or so. It was a great finish by the greatest players of his era.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

I'm no Kobe fan and won't watch the game but I'm assuming he got the Magic Aids All-star game treatment..glad this pud is gone and forgotten.

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You're wrong. They even double teamed him.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Most overrated player ever.

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Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

This is a Kobe thread, not a LeBron one.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Someone doesn't have their Long Time Guy password?

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Amen brother ..or should I say asa lama lakum sir!

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Didn't see a second of it, I'll take you @ your word and say he's a selfish guy who never made his teammates better ..but very talented no doubt, he's top 20 all time.

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kobe was always awesome. that chick wanted him to rape her and she threw a bitch fit because he wouldnt.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

What? He still had to make the shots at the end of the game. Which he did. They were guarding him from what I saw.

Pretty harsh

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

yikes

So this old thread was bumped to show what people really thought after he played his last game.

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This Old House
This Old Heart Of Mine
This Old Man

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Michael
Wilt
Byrd
Lebron

Is kobe in the top 5 GOAT list?

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He's top 10. I'm still not willing to put LeBron ahead of him. That's more about being a Kobe fan.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Byrd? WTF!

Donald Byrd is top 5 all time, sure

The single greatest thing about Larry Bird is he actually looks like a bird.