Kobe draws crowd in Boston, but young Lakers lead in win

“The loss led to the win”, he said.

“The loss led to the win”, Bryant said.

While Bryant spent his entire 20-year career as the Celtics’ biggest rival in purple and gold, he doesn’t think his career would be the same without the franchise.

Bryant’s final trip to Boston as a player offered a time to reflect on all the memories, harrowing, great and otherwise.

While Bryant holds many National Basketball Association records, would he still have accomplished as much had he not had the team that was around him in Los Angeles?

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Kobe Bryant #24 of the Los Angeles Lakers takes a shot over Jared Sullinger #7 of the Boston Celtics during the first quarter at TD Garden on December 30, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts.

“It was great man. It was great”, said Bryant. Being able to say “thank you” to the fans – it was a lovely moment.

When word got out that Danny Ainge had swung a deal with the Timberwolves to bring Kevin Garnett to Boston, all of New England and Celtics fans worldwide were ecstatic.

Kobe Bryant and Boston say goodbye to each other in 112-104 Lakers victory: Leave it to Boston Celtics fans to create a distinctive goodbye, booing Kobe Bryant whenever he touched the ball. “It’s quite a compliment”, Bryant said.

“I knew what type of work ethic he had and know what type kind of guy he is”.

“One thing we can trust as sports fans is you can trust the sports gods are going to line these teams up again”, Bryant said. It drove me to, like, maniacal proportions. In front a sell-out crowd, the Lower Merion High School product buried a three-pointer on the Lakers’ first offensive set.

Bryant made a flashback spin move on Bradley, a quality defender, as part of the big run in the third. Then, the Lakers took a double-digit lead and Bryant hit that dagger 3, and then the “Ko-be Bry-ant” chants that rained from the rafters were a awful idea. He returned the favor by saluting the crowd.

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“I remember my daughter was having a hard time in softball in a semifinal game, striking out, and she was crying”. We had to deal with the Spurs, we had to deal with (Sacramento), so many teams we had to deal with in the West. When that came to be it was like woah, this would be pretty cool. “The history I think is what makes this city different than all the rest”. Before the game, the Celtics gave No. 24 a piece of the Garden’s signature parquet floor. It was clearly the dominant storyline, and may or may not have contributed to a lackluster performance by the Celtics, particularly on the defensive end.

Bryant won the latest of his five championships in 2010 against the Celtics, winning the final two games of the seven-game series in Los Angeles and earning the second of his back-to-back Finals MVP awards.