Basketball legend Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers has announced his retirement from active competition for the end of this season. Its 20th season in the professional league NBA will be his last, reported the "New York Times" on Sunday.
The shooting guard has announced his resignation on the Internet platform "The Players 'Tribune' in a poem entitled" Dear Basketball ». Although his heart and his brain could bear the burden of the sport yet, wrote the 37-year-old. "But my body knows it is time to say goodbye."
He fell in love at the age of six years in the sport and given him everything: "Brain and Body", "spirit and soul", Bryant wrote on.
Bryant has enjoyed a career full of superlatives: it has five NBA championship titles and is two-time Olympic champion. He also scored the fifth player in the NBA history 30,000 points in his career. In 2012 he managed the youngest player in the illustrious circle the inclusion of the most successful hunters points in the long history of North American professional basketball league NBA.
His contract ends on 30 June 2016 just two months before his 38th birthday. Kobe Bryant had in recent years, however, repeatedly suffered physical setbacks (Achilles tendon injuries, knee, shoulder). The newspaper "USA Today" said that in view of its rather poor form lately, the announced withdrawal from the sport was hardly surprising.
Kobe Bryant is one of the biggest earners in professional basketball and also results in 2015 again the list. The Lakers star earned $ 25 million this year.
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