{"id":3344,"date":"2016-05-02T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T20:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-production.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2016-05-02T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T20:55:53","slug":"goodbye-to-a-legend-kobe-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/blog\/2016\/05\/02\/goodbye-to-a-legend-kobe-bryant\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to a Legend: Kobe Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">By Etelvina Castillo<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PicMonkey-Collage.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3360\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3360 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PicMonkey-Collage-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"PicMonkey Collage\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">With over 20 years with the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant announced his retirement with a short poem last fall. The poem \u201cDear Basketball\u201d is on The Players\u2019 Tribune website. \u201cI\u2019m ready to let you go, \/ I want you to know now \/ So we both can savor every moment we have left,\u201d Bryant wrote. \u201cMy mind can handle the grind \/ But my body knows it\u2019s time to say goodbye.\u201d Bryant to many is considered a basketball legend. He has helped the Lakers win five NBA championships, and he has two Olympic medals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3362\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0413_SPO_LDN-L-LAKERS-KOBE-DC-30-L.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3362\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3362\" class=\"wp-image-3362 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0413_SPO_LDN-L-LAKERS-KOBE-DC-30-L.jpg\" alt=\"Kobe Bryant waves to fans after scoring 60 points in the final game of his career against the against the Utah Jazz. April 13, 2016. Los Angeles, CA.\u00ca (Photo by David Crane\/Southern California News Group)\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture from insidesocal.com: Kobe Bryant waves to fans after scoring 60 points in the final game of his career against the against the Utah Jazz. April 13, 2016. Los Angeles, CA.\u00ca (Photo by David Crane\/Southern California News Group)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Brant&#8217;s last game was April 13, 2016, at the Los Angeles Staples Center. Scoring 60 points in his final game, Bryant put on a show for all his fans.\u00a0After the game was over, Bryant took a moment and kneeled\u00a0down to sign his name on the hardwood floor panels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Bryant&#8217;s last game\u00a0became trending topic on all social media platforms such as instagram, twitter and Facebook. Fans from all over the world used the hashtag #MambaDay which was used\u00a02.87 million times on the day of Bryants last game. &#8220;Black Mamba&#8221; is the nickmame Bryant gave himself a few years ago. A Black Mamba is an African snake feared by many and is said to be the fastest snake on land in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">His last game of his career was\u00a0legendary. The legend of Kobe Bryant will live forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Etelvina Castillo  With over 20 years with the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant announced his retirement with a short poem last fall. The poem \u201cDear Basketball\u201d is on The Players\u2019 Tribune website. \u201cI\u2019m ready to let you go, \/ I want you to know now \/ So we both can savor every moment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}