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00:00 I'm Jill Painter Lopez with Sports Illustrated here with Melissa Rowland and today Melissa
00:09 marks four years ago that Kobe Bryant played in his last game.
00:14 It was unbelievably special and something we'll always remember ESPN re airing it tonight.
00:20 What is that going to mean for everybody to be able to watch that again?
00:23 It's really hard to believe that it was four years ago.
00:26 It feels so far away, but yet again, everybody remembers it like it was yesterday.
00:32 Everybody remembers where they were when Kobe Bryant scored 60 points in his last game,
00:36 capping off an incredible 20 season career in which he won five NBA championships, two
00:42 finals MVPs, one regular season MVP.
00:45 It was just such a beautiful, poetic way for him to cap off what had been such an illustrious,
00:51 insanely beautiful, incredible career.
00:53 Obviously, Kobe retired in 2016, went on to become a prolific storyteller, winning an
00:58 Oscar in 2018 for his short film, Dear Basketball.
01:01 And then Kobe tragically died in January in a helicopter crash.
01:05 So this re airing of this game just provides fans with another moment to relive his spectacular
01:11 career and those 60 points, Melissa.
01:14 I know some of us think, well, there's no way he was going to do something like that
01:17 in the last game, but he did.
01:21 It was incredible.