- 3:13 PM, Monday,
April 14th, 2016:
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- Earlier in the
year when Bowie died I wrote about his releasing an
album of new material and dying two days later really
"redefined an exit." In a sense Kobe just did that
last night, but "redefine" doesn't cover it really
because part of us expected it and hoped for it to
happen. So he didn't REdefine it, he DEFINED it
and put an exclamation point on it.
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- Now, the Warriors
winning 73 and Kobe's last game were both last night
and guess which one I tried to get tickets to?
The Warriors. To me, that was far more impressive than
what was sure to be a sad farewell of what used to be.
I want to remember Kobe hitting 50 at will, not
getting 17 on 6 for 25 shooting and waving and crying
to the crowd. I remember Jordan's last game and
it actually made me angry...
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- ...however, the
tickets on stub-hub for the Warriors skyrocketed
before I could hit ENTER and I ended up watching
both games at the same time and truthfully? Couldn't
resist watching Kobe on the big screen and the
Warriors on my phone. That tiny part of me thought
just maybe he would go apeshit and I had
to see it even if he was a gunslinger missing
everything...
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- ...uhm, he wasn't.
He actually scored SIXTY. In fact his second half
performance was one of the finest... he's
EVER had? Am I typing that? He goes 15-30
and scores 38 in the second half, 23 in the 4th
quarter alone where not only was he 50% he made the
last 5 buckets to overcome a
FIFTEEN POINT DEFICIT and hit the game
winner.
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- HUH?
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- It's not like they
were giving it to him in fact, multiple times in the
4th quarter I'm yelling:
"DUDE WHY ARE YOU DOUBLING HIM COME ON."
There were exactly ZERO open looks. It was like going
ten years into the past and I loved, every,
fucking, second. He hit the go-ahead bucket and they
cut to Shaq in the crowd and he's DUMBFOUNDED. I've
never seen anything like it. Granted, taking 50 shots
(3 shots under .500) for the game is ridiculous but at
his age? Playing 42 out of 48 minutes? Unreal. Jordan
had 5 60+ games, this broke that tie, Kobe now has 6.
Fuckouttahere he just did that on his
LAST GAME.
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- ...and before you
even say it, of course it's his last game. His body
proved to him it is unreliable. With that much wear
and tear every day you play a professional sport is
more than likely the day you get seriously, seriously
injured. Which is why the past 3 years he's never been
really able to ramp up to form because you have to
beware of longevity. Last night was like a Legends
game where it just didn't matter because it wasn't
happening again... but they did win. Granted, it was
meaningless but man just to feel a 15 point comeback
with Kobe hitting EVERYTHING at the end... absolutely
unbelievable. So, much, fun.
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- Cam watched the
first half with me... or should I say Cam just
watched a spattering of seconds while dancing and then
eventually going to bed. But when he gets older he can
say he remembers watching Kobe's last game because of
this video:
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- Oh and, uhm, we
don't drug our children and wait for them to fall
asleep - we just found out Cameron's LIFELONG eczema
is due to his allergy... to...
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- DOGS.
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- Fuck. A 5 out of 6
on the allergy scale or some shit. Awful news. We're
slowly trying to alleviate as much as possible before
we do anything drastic. Ugh. Anyway, I'm glad
I could at least have ONE unlocked entry this
month. This may be Lockedville for quite
awhile.
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- Ugh.
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- Adam
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