Kobe Bryant to Retire: Twitter Reacts to Lakers Star’s Announcement

November 29th, 2015 by Joseph Zucker Leave a reply »

Between Kobe Bryant's performance and injury issues over the last few years, most expected this to be his final season in the NBA.     

The Los Angeles Lakers star announced in an open letter on the Players' Tribune that he'll retire at the end of the 2015-16 campaign:  



Bryant also wrote an open letter for fans (via Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press):



The Lakers provided the letter to every fan attending Sunday night's game against the Indiana Pacers:



ESPN The Magazine's Don Van Natta Jr. argued Kobe is still unable to escape Michael Jordan's massive shadow even as he pens his retirement letter:



"Sad. We talked about it last night," said Lakers head coach Byron Scott, per the team's Twitter account. "I told him it kind of shocked me when he told me."

Scott also reminisced about Bryant's career:



NBA Commissioner Adam Silver (via the NBA's Twitter account) provided a statement on the news:



On Sunday's edition of NBA Game Time, Brent Barry and Rick Fox, the latter of ...

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