LA Lakers Star, Kobe Bryant Announces Retirement From Basketball

Posted by: b3rrilyn in Celebrity News Nov 30, 2015

Kobe Bryant who is one of the greatest ever basketball players has announced he will be retiring from the game at the end of the current NBA season

The LA Lakers star, who made his retirement public stlylishy using a poem on The Players’ Tribune website,he titled the poem titled ‘Dear Basketball’ Read what Kobe who is one of basketball’s most decorated players, and is currently 37 year old below;

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.

Adam Silver, a current NBA Commissioner in his statement as regards Kobe’s retirement reffered to him as �one of the greatest players in the history of our game.”
He further wrote;
�I join Kobe’s millions of fans around the world in congratulating him on an outstanding NBA career and thank him for so many thrilling memories.”