TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 4月14日 06時00分

Tonight, Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant will take the court for the final game of his NBA career. The 37-year-old guard, selected in the first round of the 1996 draft out of high school, is finishing up his 20th season in L.A. — a record for the most years played with a single team.

Andrew Bernstein, the team photographer for the Los Angeles Lakers, remembers his favorite portrait of Bryant, which shows the Lakers guard with his feet in an ice bucket. “I’ve had the good fortune as Lakers team photographer to have photographed almost every significant moment in Kobe Bryant’s 20-year NBA career,” he says. “This photo was shot in the locker room at Madison Square Garden about an hour or so before game time. The Lakers were on a long east coast trip and had just played the night before in Cleveland, where Kobe scored 31 points in 40 minutes. He was beat up at that point in the season—broken finger, ankles hurting, etc. This photo sums up the incredible will I have witnessed in Kobe every night. I have never seen an athlete so determined and focused. He came out and played 42 minutes and dropped 27 points on the Knicks in the Lakers victory that night.” See more iconic photos on TIME.com/LightBox.

Photograph by Andrew D. Bernstein—NBAE/@gettyimages.

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