Kobe: 10 days till immortality

[9erempiree]

GOAT goating GOAT.

[Im Still Ballin]

12th best to ever do it

EVER

[GreatHILL]

[SuperCereal]

[COLOR="White"]1[/COLOR]2. GOAT!!!!

[OmniStrife]

[ArbitraryWater]

amazing player.. one of the twelve best to EVER DO IT.... think about how crazy that is, let that go through your head.

[T_L_P]

Gonna be a sad end to a great career.

To be a top 12 player of all time, out of the thousands that have come and gone. Amazing.

[SouBeachTalents]

[Akrazotile]

Congrats to the NBA's "12th Man."

Nobody will ever touch his Missed FGA record.

[AirFederer]

Congrats on a great career, Bean.

How fitting this image is

[You Cant Ban Me]

12.....let it sink in 12....this man is the 12th best player to ever lace em up.Hell of a career mamba only 11 men ever were better than you...well as of 2016.i love you ill miss you legends never die

[jstern]

It's an amazing accomplishment to be the 12th best player of all time. And while we might all view that in awe, the reality is that Kobe was aiming for the number one spot. So I wonder how he feels about that. That's 11 spots under what he was expecting. But he can also considered that when he entered the league Shaq, Duncan, and Lebron were still not top ten players. So compared to his original goal, he made it to number nine in a 1996 list. The only list he knew at the time.

Also, I think the OP should have used a better quality image.

[COnDEMnED]

A song in Kobe's memory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgYNyWzPsu4

Amon Amarth - One Thousand Arrows

They bring him to the shore
His ship is ready made
He will not see them anymore
Here he cannot stay

The brotherhood is gathered
Their faces hard as stone
They have come to take farewell
In silence they mourn

"Our king has left our ranks
A wise and noble man
We owe him loyalty and thanks
He ruled with a steady hand

He will be missed by all
His heart has now been stilled
Tonight he'll dine in Odin's hall
There he'll drink his fill"

The ship glides gently on the waves
As day turns into night
One thousand burning arrows
Fill the starlit sky

Two ravens on the longship
They spread their pitch-black wings
And lift up to the burning sky

A send-off for a king! Into flames!
The longship burst into flames!
Black smoke is rising high
To the eternal night Into flames!

The whole world burst into flames!
Nothing will be the same
Things will forever change
The flames are raging higher

They gnaw at wood and flesh
Soon the ship will break apart
And sink into the depth
This night we drink in silence

And when the morning breaks
Our king has left this world to walk
Through Valhalla's gate

[Dray n Klay]

OP should have made this thread 2 days ago

[WayOfWade]

I remember when he tore his Achilles, I thought it was over and it was shockingly sad to see one of the greatest ever so abruptly leave. Fortunately he came back and gave us a couple more years of Kobe. It was fun while it lasted!