I’m a sailor peg
And I’ve lost my leg
Climbing up the top sails
I lost my leg!
– Dropkick Murphys, “Shipping Up To Boston”
Ghosts of Kobe Bryant live in every arena, each one a memory. They are crossovers and buzzer-beaters and sneers. As he has said goodbye to each building this season, those ghosts have revealed themselves; piles of bones rattling, rising into skeletons.
Faces from his past have emerged. His triumphs have flashed on overhead video screen and he has made herculean efforts to match those performances on the court – to varying degrees of success.