And so I ran. I ran up and down every court After every loose ball for you. You asked for my hustle I gave you my heart Because it came with so much more.
Recorded Retirement poem, The Players' Tribune, 29 November 2015 source ↗
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Kobe Bryant
United States basketball player, Los Angeles Lakers, 1996–2016
United States · b. 1978
Guard who spent his entire twenty-season NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers, winning five championships. He announced his retirement in November 2015 in a poem published by The Players' Tribune, later adapted into an Academy Award-winning animated short. He died in a helicopter crash in January 2020.
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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.
Recorded Retirement poem, The Players' Tribune, 29 November 2015 source ↗
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