lunedì 18 aprile 2016

NBA: Farewell Kobe Bryant "The last bite of the Black Mamba"

After 20 years in the league Kobe Bryant played the last game of his career against the Utah Jazz in a game that didn't have any importance for any of those teams but the Black Mamba is not a common player and there was no way he would walk away in a standard way, also none knew he had a bet with Shaq who challenged him to score 50 points, Kobe bored to that "easy" challenge decide to exaggerate and score 60 points, yes someone should say he took over 50 shots and he faced a poor defense but i answer them you always have to put that ball in that basket! counting the difficulties of some shots he took especially in the fourth quarter i saw for the last time maybe in my life those kind of contested shots going into the basket without any rhythm or at least for anyone whose name is not Kobe B. Bryant. This game as i already said has been the perfect face of Bryant's personality on and off the field, a personality that brought a lot fo people to love him and a lot of people to hate him, he is a maniac for this game obsessed to win, so obsessed that hasn't been easy to play with him and coach him but on the other side he seemed to have taken the best parts of the game of the best NBA players in the history like the moves of Jordan, like the low post movements of Olajuwon, like some air move of Dr. J and so on...he became the third all time score in NBA history and second just to Chamberlain to the single NBA game scoring perforance with 81 points against the Raptors in a memorable game, not only personal records, in fact he won 5 rings, the first three as a rising player in the shadow of Shaq, the following two as an absolute Star. Everyone will remember him for his MVP year, for his great scoring performance but he has been also a great defender, not the most continuos one due to his offensive duty that took away from him a great part of his energy but when he really wanted to deny the way to score to someone he proved he has been able to do that, i will always remember the great one on one challenge with Allen Iverson, T-Mac, Vince Carter, D-Wade, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and so on as the best i have ever seen because those has been brutal in the most positive way between great fearless players that in those days paid of the respect that the Black Mamba deserve.
Thank you Kobe for all this 20 years and don't worry there won't be another Black Mamba!


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