NBA: Kobe Bryant’s best games against every team

Kobe Bryant has used the 2015-16 season as his farewell tour. With few games left in his Lakers career, we rank his best games against the Association’s other 29 teams.

Kobe Bryant’s NBA career can vote. It can smoke. We can send it to war. Kobe Bryant has been in the NBA for 20 seasons, enough time for many adult fans to have never known a league without him. That includes rookies Devin Booker and Rashad Vaughn, who were both born after Kobe was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets on June 26, 1996.

In that time, Kobe Bryant has played in over 1,300 games, poured in over 30,000 points, and played in seven NBA Finals series. He’s a player who starred in three separate decades, and has left his indelible mark on all three.

What’s been so fascinating about this final farewell season has been the outpouring of love and support for a player who spent most of his career feared and often hated. Even in places like Phoenix and Sacramento and San Antonio, opposing fans and players have fawned over Kobe. LeBron James even asked Kobe to sign his shoes.

Nobody was happy to play him, but now everyone is sad to see him go. Going through his history, we take a look at the best games of Kobe’s career, team by team. And for that, we start in the Midwest.

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