Breann Lujan-Halcon
blujanha@uwyo.edu
April 12, 2013, it was game 80 of 82 of the season, after hyperextending his knee in the first half Kobe Bryant tore his Achilles in the fourth quarter of a home game against the Golden State Warriors. He made two free throws and didn’t check back into a game for nearly eight months. To Lakers fans, to Kobe, that’s when the countdown really began.
Pre-Achilles Kobe always hit the buzzer beater, his clutch was always on, but post-Achilles Kobe is throwing up air ball three’s and bricking his jumpers. He was never the same, and he knew it.