Heading into his 20th NBA season, Kobe Bryant said several times last fall that this would probably be his final NBA campaign. At the same time, he refused to definitively declare that this was it. But after a brutal start, with the Lakers at 2-13 and
cheap 2k16 VC coins Bryant averaging 15. 7 points per game on 16. 7 shots per game, Bryant announced via a poem that this would be his final season.
"You gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream, " wrote Bryant. "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. "
Since then, the Lakers' season has basically become a Kobe farewell tour. Despite Bryant requesting that opposing teams treat his final appearances in their city as just another game, fans have flocked to see him for the final time, as he's drawn ovations from appreciative fans in opposing arenas from Boston to Oakland. As of the most recent All-Star voting update, Bryant was the NBA's leading vote-getter and seemingly a lock to start in what would be his 15th All-Star appearance.fifiaqowe