{"id":2678,"date":"2016-04-14T21:23:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/hollywood-night-kobe-bryant-hits-for-60-in-surreal-final-nba-game\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:23:20","slug":"hollywood-night-kobe-bryant-hits-for-60-in-surreal-final-nba-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/hollywood-night-kobe-bryant-hits-for-60-in-surreal-final-nba-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood night: Kobe Bryant hits for 60 in surreal final NBA game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Of course<\/i> Kobe Bryant<\/a> scored an astonishing 60 points in his final NBA game. And of course<\/i> he took 50 shots to do it<\/p>\n

The Lakers even won on Wednesday. \u00a0<\/p>\n

But that was a footnote. This occasion was less a basketball game than a piece of basketball theater.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: My high school teammate, Kobe Bryant<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

An icon’s retirement supersedes a game between two playoff-ineligible teams. That rule is doubly true when the icon is Bryant, who’s still with the Los Angeles Lakers \u2014 the only NBA<\/a> team he’s played for since entering the league out of high school in 1996. It’s also the team he led to five titles.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Of course Kobe Bryant scored an astonishing 60 points in his final NBA game. And of course he took 50 shots to do it The Lakers even won on Wednesday. \u00a0 But that was a footnote. This … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1577,739,1885,738,740],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-basketball","tag-entertainment","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}