Dear basketball

From the moment that year

I started rolling my dad's tube socks I put on dad's stockings for the first time

And shooting imaginary Game-winning shots fantasize about winning on the court

In the Great Western Forum fantasizes about yourself at the Western Forum

I knew one thing was real:我知道

I fell in love with you

A love so deep I gave you my all — I love so deeply

From my mind & body regardless of mind, body

Or spirit, soul

As a six-year-old boy six-year me

Deeply in love with you has fallen in love with basketball

I never saw the end of the tunnel.我看不到尽头I only saw myself

I only saw myself

Running out of one

And so I ra

I ran up and down every court I kept running on the pitch

After every loose ball for you

You asked for my hustle you want to see me working hard

I gave you my heart and I will give you my heart

Because it came with so much more

I played through the sweat and hurt me sweating like rain and fighting with wounds

Not because challenge called me is not a challenge

But because you called me

I did everything for you

Because that’s what you do只为篮球

When someone makes you feel as you make me feel fulfilled

Alive as you've made me feel

You gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream You made that six-year-old boy dream laker dream

And I'll always love you for it

But I can't love you obsessively for much longer

This season is all I have left to give

My heart can take the pounding My heart is still beating

My mind can handle the grind My will is still strong

But my body knows it's time to say goodbye

And that’s OK.好吧

I’m ready to let you go. I want you to know now it's time for me to let go, and I want you to understand

good So we both can savor every moment we have left together

We have given each other we have already done for each other

All that we have

And we both know, no matter what I do next we all know, from now on

I’ll always be that kid. With the rolled up socks I was still that little boy, wearing stockings

Garbage can in the corner aimed at the trash can in the corner

05 seconds on the clock silently countdown for five seconds

Ball in my hands

5… 4… 3… 2… 1

Love you always, always love you, my basketball

Kobe Bryant