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NBA Rumors – Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Lakers Help Kobe Bryant Cement His Ball Hog Legacy
Whatever the circumstances, a player who is four months away from his 38th birthday scoring 60 points is impressive. The way Kobe Bryant has been playing this season for the Los Angeles Lakers, anytime he scores over 25 points is something of an achievement. After one final year in a downward spiral that included getting called old, washed up and the cause for the franchise being in its current situation, Bryant got the goodbye he was looking for.
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18 Best Memes of the Los Angeles Lakers Saying Goodbye to Kobe Bryant
The most outlandish script writers in Hollywood wouldn’t have come up with the ending Kobe Bryant had to his NBA & Los Angeles Lakers career. Trashed all year in memes and everyone else for being old and bad, he dropped 60 points before actually dropping the mic as he left the Staples Building for the final time as an active player.
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NBA Rumors – Golden State Warriors Changing History, Los Angeles Lakers Saying Goodbye to it
The last night of games in the 2015-2016 NBA Season also presents two teams on the opposite ends of a scale: The Golden State Warriors, maybe the best team to ever step on an NBA floor, chasing history and records. On the other end are the Los Angeles Lakers, saying goodbye to a huge piece of their history, and moving on to an unknown, but finally not weighed down kind of future.
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5 Most Important Things on the 2015-2016 NBA Regular Season Finale
A lot of teams are heading into the final day of the 2015-2016 NBA regular season without too much to play for. But there are those with some interest in their closing game. Like the Golden State Warriors, for obvious reasons. Like the Los Angeles Lakers, for Kobe Bryant reasons. Like the Houston Rockets & Utah Jazz, hoping to make it into the playoffs. And a few more, with less important things on their mind.
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NBA Rumors – Los Angeles Lakers, Byron Scott Sorry for Kobe Bryant, Not Their Crappy Team
In another example of how distorted the thinking for the Los Angeles Lakers has been this season and for the last few years, Byron Scott keeps gushing about Kobe Bryant while the brand of basketball he’s responsible for keeps putting on embarrassing performances.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Ending his Career Looking Like the Michelin Man
In his final game against Dwyane Wade, Kobe Bryant had a bad time. He played just nine minutes before leaving the game with an aching shoulder and banged up knees. The Los Angeles Lakers looked a lot better with him not playing at all, pulling off a stunning overtime win.
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23 Best Memes of D’Angelo Russell, Nick Young & Iggy Azalea Snitching Drama
The funniest memes, as it turns out, are made about the least important stuff in the sports world: Gossip. Like D’Angelo Russell filming Nick Young hinting that he cheated on his fiancee Iggy Azalea, the video leaking to the internet and resulting with everyone calling the Los Angeles Lakers rookie a snitch.
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NBA Rumors – Los Angeles Lakers Carried by Byron Scott & Kobe Bryant Straight to the Bottom
The twilight years of Kobe Bryant in the NBA are also the worst in the history of the Los Angeles Lakers. Coached by the incompetent Byron Scott, the duo, with the people running the team from the front office, have their fingerprints all over a record breaking season in all the wrong ways.
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LeBron James Beats Kobe Bryant in Anticlimactic Ending to Their “Rivalry”
There was nothing at stake for Kobe Bryant when he played against LeBron James for the final time before the sun sets down on his career. Yes, the Cleveland Cavaliers needed a regular season win, which they got. The Los Angeles Lakers? Another loss in a forgettable season. They won’t remember the loss either.
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NBA Rumors – Los Angeles Lakers Look Happy When Kobe Bryant Isn’t Playing
The NBA is a more interesting place when the Los Angeles Lakers are a good team. The closer Kobe Bryant is to retirement and the closer Byron Scott is to getting fired the sunnier it gets over the golden half of the Staples center, with D’Angelo Russell, Julius Randle and Jordan Clarkson finding more and more reasons to smile recently.