After countless times of shooting paper into the trash and yelling “KOBE” the legendary basketball career of Kobe Bryant came to an end Wednesday night. He spent over half of his life in the NBA, as he was drafted right out of high school as the thirteenth over all pick in the 1996 draft. Kobe Bryant will go down as one of the best players of all time, winning 5 NBA Championships and all for them with the Los Angeles Lakers. Kobe finished third on the all time scoring list with 33,643 career points.

Kobe had the perfect game to end his career. He set a new record for scoring the most points at a late stage in his career. He scored a game high 60 points! Shooting 21 of 49 for the game. Kobe out scored the Jazz in the fourth quarter 23-21. No Hall of Fame player has scored more than 30 in his final game, Kobe surpassed that by doubling that amount. He had always been criticized in his career for taking too many shots and not passing, but on his final NBA possession he received an assist. Just the way everyone predicted.

Robert Bednarz has always been a huge Kobe Bryant fan, he has watched hi play in person and was amazed by the legend. Bednarz said, “The most impressive thing about his final game was that he was playing men that are 22-23 years old and he’s still having the biggest impact on the game.”

Although he is now done playing he will always be remembered as many, heroes come and go but legends live forever.