Basketball great Kobe Bryant has announced he will retire at the end of the current NBA season.
The Los Angeles Lakers star wrote a poem on players tribune announcing his decision. “This season is all I have left to give,” the 37-year-old wrote. The website crashed shortly after he made the posting, but has since come back online.
One stanza of the ode, directed at basketball itself, explains why it’s “time to say goodbye”:
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You gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream
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.
Bryant, who has played for the Lakers for two decades, is a 17-time All-Star and was the youngest player in league history to reach 30,000 career points at the age of 34.
Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner, hailed Bryant as “one of the greatest players in the history of our game.” Lakers coach Bryant Scott said he was “shocked” at the player’s decision:
You gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream
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.
Bryant, who has played for the Lakers for two decades, is a 17-time All-Star and was the youngest player in league history to reach 30,000 career points at the age of 34.
Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner, hailed Bryant as “one of the greatest players in the history of our game.” Lakers coach Bryant Scott said he was “shocked” at the player’s decision:
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