Athletes Pen Their Farewells to Kobe
Former Lakers muse about the Mamba in Sports Illustrated, the Washington Post and The Players' Tribune.
Lakers great Magic Johnson posted a letter to Kobe on his official website. On The Players’ Tribune, where Kobe announced around Thanksgiving his decision to retire at the end of this NBA season, the quartet of Horace Grant, Brian Shaw, Ron Harper and Devean George take turns sharing memories under a combined Retired / Los Angeles Lakers byline.
Shaw kicks things off by recalling how some time spent with a young Kobe in Rome in the late 1980s when he played with Italian team Il Messaggero Roma took on a media life of its own:
By the time Kobe got to the league and we were in the NBA Finals that first time in L.A.,
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