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With the impending retirement of Kobe Bryant, the NBA is on the verge of losing its last remnants of a different era.
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.”
- John Steinbeck, 1952, East of Eden
After Kobe Bryant announced on Sunday that he was going to retire at the end of this season, New Orleans Pelicans forward Quincy Pondexter tweeted out “I never cried when MJ retired, but I probably will when Bean does”.