Gordon Hayward On What It Was Like Playing in Kobe’s 60-Point Finale

Gordon Hayward describes his experience playing in Kobe Bryant’s final game. #kobebryant #60pointGame #losangeleslakers

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So Gordon you were involved in a game with Kobe Bryan and as a Kobe fan I think there’s a lot of different memories that most Kobe fans you know do have and okay obviously that last game uh that he played his final game of his career uh against Utah he scores 60 can

You walk us through that night because as a fan like it was just so amazing to watch did you find yourself like struggling to compete because you were just in such awe of like was it a movie out there for you or like walk us through that okay so this I don’t want

To like like I’m a big Kobe fan as well so I don’t want to like put that g last game down or for you but we learned right before game time that the game didn’t matter cuz it was the game would have mattered for us making the playoffs but we we learned

Right before that the game didn’t matter somebody else had won so we the game didn’t matter all we weren’t getting in um and then I mean before the game it certainly was a movie all the celebrities that were there um just the buzz that was in the air I mean you

Could feel it it was it was Unreal unlike any game I’ll ever playing again but I will say we were up pretty handily most of the game he probably air balled like six or seven times I mean he shot 50 shots yeah that’s awesome wait how many times you said he

Airball a lot he probably airball like six or seven times I mean he was I wouldn’t I don’t think he was that good throughout most of the game now the last 3 minutes he was special the last three minutes was Unreal it was vintage Kobe right he ended up winning the game for

Him but I mean I’ve the other thing that I I mean I’ve never I’ll never be a part of is I mean there were people on his team that were passing up wide open shots like if they got the ball where’s Kobe where’s Kobe let me give Kobe the

Ball like how can I screen for Kobe I mean the legal screens that were s the the refs had to be on on to cuz the legal screens that were set were wild yeah but I mean it was how can I get Kobe a shot the fans were Bo when we

Stole the ball from him I mean like to be Kobe’s night like it was which it was it ended up being his night I mean like I said the last three minutes were a movie I mean the last three minutes the shots he was hitting you’re just like all right I mean it’s

He’s feeling it now yeah I remember that I remember that day because I we it was the last game for us and we were in playoffs already um so I stayed home we went to Milwaukee they let us stay home some of the starters uh stay home so we didn’t

Travel um and after we watched our game I cut that game on and like you said like Kobe was stinking it like oh it was bad I’m like damn he’s going out sad like y’all were like y’all y’all had the game handed like I’m like okay this one’s over like and

Then yeah like later in the game like all right he’s like he’s starting to get a rhythm like mhm game goes on goes on when you shoot that many times you’re bound to get you’re bound to catch fire at some point right like if you know you

Got that many shots coming like you’re going to catch Rhythm so and that was similar to our last matchup that year he he when he came to Indiana he shot poorly like shot poorly all the way up until like the last two three minutes it just everything was going for him and

The crowd’s going crazy now like every time he touched the ball the crowd standing up it was just like damn we’re like is this a home game for the Lakers here like that’s how it was every time the Lakers came to Utah it was a home

Game for them it was a home game right I’m sure it was like that same IND same Indie Lakers Miami they Chicago Boston yeah they travel they definitely travel he was I I do have a picture of the captain’s meeting with me and him like shaking hands like framed like that’s

Pretty cool did you get anything like signed from him after that game or uh no but I’m pretty sure we all got like I don’t remember remember but I think there was like like we all got like Kobe’s last game shoes or something like that okay there was something that we

All got for being a part of the game I think it was shoes yeah oh you got to have those still yeah acting like he don’t the shoes well you know we got we just said you you acquire a lot of stuff it’s somewhere at the house yeah look

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