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.
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Kobe Bryant
United States basketball player, Los Angeles Lakers, 1996–2016
United States · b. 1978
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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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