OAKLAND -- Farewell, Kobe.
As a basketball junkie who caught the addiction on Michael Jordan's "Come Fly With Me" video, I must say it was a pleasure watching you for 20 seasons. And as an Oakland native wired with a dislike for Southern California teams, it's unnatural to have found so much joy in your dominance and rampant success.Thursday, you played your 31st and final game in Oakland, in a sense ending an era of Warriors basketball. Yeah, you're a Laker. But a sizeable percentage of the Warriors expansive fan base were Lakers fans not too long ago.