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Lakers Team Reflects on Kobe’s Last Game, Nick Young Says Kobe Refused To Sign His Adidas!!

<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s still surreal that Kobe Bryant has finally retired&excl; Plus&comma; he had the nerve to rack up 60 points and it was just incredible&period; Well some of Bryant&&num;8217&semi;s teammates  decided to reflect on that magical night and first up was Nick Young&excl; Nick shared a funny story about how Kobe cussed him out after the game for trying to get him to sign his Adidas sneakers knowing Kobe is endorsed by Nike&excl; Shade&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Nick Young&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;The feeling was like we won a championship or something&period; They had the champagne bottles after&comma; but it was great—the confetti&semi; the five-minute intro he had&period; Kobe signing autographs&comma; and we&&num;8217&semi;re all in line like we were fans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fact he threw my Adidas and didn&&num;8217&semi;t sign my Adidas&comma; disappointed in that&period; He couldn&&num;8217&semi;t not end with something like that&period; He threw my SHOES in the trash&period; But that&&num;8217&semi;s Kobe for you&period; He signed some Nike&&num;8217&semi;s&period; &lbrack;He told&rsqb; someone &lbrack;to go&rsqb; get some Nike&&num;8217&semi;s&semi; he&&num;8217&semi;s not signing no &lbrack;sic&rsqb; Adidas&period; But he also took a picture with my son&period; I thought that was cool&comma; too&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>That was so shady&comma; but Nick knew better lol&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Check out a few of the other player&&num;8217&semi;s sentiments about parting with the one and only Kobe Bryant&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Metta World Peace&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Prior to the game&comma; we were in the locker room&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s when I felt the most emotion because Kobe was talking about how he wanted us to play hard and play to exhaustion&period; He probably was the only one who played to exhaustion&comma; so he was probably talking for no reason&period; But he played hard&comma; man&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I was animated even when he was missing &lpar;shots&rpar; because I figured if he&&num;8217&semi;s going to miss every shot&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m going to cheer for him all night&period; He didn&&num;8217&semi;t start off hot&period; He started off looking like a bum&comma; huh&quest; &lpar;watch video for this one&rpar; I&&num;8217&semi;m like &&num;8216&semi;Kobe&comma; man&comma; you don&&num;8217&semi;t got it not more&comma; man&period;&&num;8217&semi; So I said&comma; you know what&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m going to cheer every time because he had a couple air balls and he had a couple turnovers&period; My thing was&comma; if he&&num;8217&semi;s going to go out like this&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re going to go out strong&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re going to go out positive as if we won the championship—no crack in the armor&period; And then&comma; he just caught fire&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was amazing&period; I was just screaming&&num;8230&semi;I just remember around the fourth quarter having a headache from screaming and jumping so loud and high&period; It was great&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Larry Nance Jr&period;&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I was a fan for most of it&period; It was hard not to be&period; You can&&num;8217&semi;t script a better ending than that&period; Twenty years of greatness and I got to be a part of his end of career celebration&period; So&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s something that I&&num;8217&semi;ll always remember&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ll just never forget that&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>D&&num;8217&semi;Angelo Russell&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;The craziest thing that I remember is&comma; I think one of their players blocked his shot—great block—and the fans started booing him &lpar;the player&rpar;&period; I was like &&num;8216&semi;Wow&excl;&&num;8217&semi; Then&comma; another two minutes later&comma; he fouled somebody&comma; and the ref called a foul on him&period; And everybody started booing him &lpar;the ref&rpar;&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s crazy for everybody to be cheering for you like that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He shot 50 shots&comma; made 22 to them&period; Literally&comma; it felt it every shot he shot went in&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t remember his misses&comma; but I remember his makes vividly&period; And the fans&comma; they were on their feet the whole time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If I was him&comma; I feel like if I go out on my last game I&&num;8217&semi;d be feeling like my mind is playing mental gymnastics with myself&period; This is my last game&period; I feel like I&&num;8217&semi;m too old to keep playing because it&&num;8217&semi;s my last game—that&&num;8217&semi;s what I&&num;8217&semi;m thinking&period; But he goes out&comma; and he puts on a 60-point performance&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m going to tell myself&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Yo&comma; I can play 82 more games and possibly do it again&period;&&num;8217&semi; But him saying he gave it all he got&comma; he can&&num;8217&semi;t give any more to the game—that just shows that he&&num;8217&semi;s done it all&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Check out the rest of the team&&num;8217&semi;s thoughts&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Job well done&comma; 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