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Kobe Bryant: 5 Greatest Lakers Moments With the Mamba

Kobe Bryant is going to retire. That’s something every fan of the Los Angeles Lakers had come to grips with in recent years as he’s been dealing with a multitude of injuries and a declining physical skill-set. But now we know that this is it. The 2015-16 NBA season is going to end.

Kobe announced that he will be retiring at the end of this season in a poem published in The Player’s Tribune on Sunday evening. The 37-year-old future Hall-of-Famer expressed his love for the game of basketball, his time in the NBA, and for the Lakers for making his dreams come true.