Kobe Bryant has had a lasting bond with L.A., and now he reaches his final game: Twenty years, gone in the flash of a fadeaway swish. Twenty years, crushed by a clenched fist, chewed by gritted teeth, disappeared beneath a solitary gloating march neither fueled by love nor slowed by hate. He showed up on this city's doorstep in the summer of 1996 as a teenage Laker with an adult prediction. -- Los Angeles Times
Kobe Bryant ends his career Wednesday on a mellow note: The goodbye tour finally says farewell.