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Boston Celtics Gift Kobe Bryant a Piece of Their Iconic Parquet Floor

Danny Ainge, Rich Gotham and Steve Pagliuca presented @kobebryant with a piece of the parquet floor earlier today. pic.twitter.com/OF5DUk9n99

— Boston Celtics (@celtics) December 30, 2015

What do you give a man who has left his fingerprints all over the NBA history books?

An actual piece of league history perhaps.

That's what the Boston Celtics did for Kobe Bryant's final game at TD Garden on Wednesday, framing a piece of the team's iconic parquet floor and presenting it to the Los Angeles Lakers star privately before tipoff.